Amnesty Ultranationalist
Free prisoner # 28301-016!!! I'll miss seeing all the Escalades with their mock activist bumper stickers. How often do the Pubies get all Mumia on us? (Pretty often, actually. See: North, Ollie; Poindexter, John; Weinberger, Casper; Nixon, Richard, etc.) Apparently it is "excessive" that Scooter serve time for unrepentant and repeated perjury and obstruction of justice when Paris Hilton only got 23 days for driving on a suspended license.
I guess when it came time to slam the door, Cheney just couldn't bear to share his bitch.
BTW, I think #3 stole my joke.
posted by tenaciousmcd @ 10:38 AM
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David Brooks writes in today's NYT in his inimitably misleading fashion the following:
Mr. Wilson claimed that his wife had nothing to do with his trip to investigate Iraqi purchases in Niger, though that seems not to have been the case. He claimed his trip proved Iraq had made no such attempts, though his own report said nothing of the kind.
I've followed this case pretty closely over the years and as far as I know Wilson and Plame have both publically said that Plame introduced him to some of her co-workers at some meeting and then left, but that the idea for sending him was not hers and she was not responsible for it. So I'm relatively certain that Brooks's statement that Wilson claimed "his wife had nothing to do with his trip" is either false or has been taken out of context and hence it leaves a very false and prejudicial impression. This sort of statement should have been fact-checked by the NYT and not printed if shown to be taken out of context.
As for Brooks's assertion that Wilson's "own report" didn't show that Iraq had made no attempts to buy uranium in Niger, this one just takes the yellow cake. I'm not exactly sure what game Brooks is playing here with the English language -- it seems as if rhetorically he is purposely leaving open the possibility that Iraq did make such an attempt, or that based on Wilson's report this was still a possibilty. Whatever game this is, Wilson's assertion in the original NYT op-ed that he found no evidence that Iraq tried to buy 500 pounds of yellowcake turns out to be true because Iraq made no such attempt and the assertion that she did was based on documents forged in Italy. The amazing thing is that this error was admitted to by the head of the CIA, George Tenet, shortly after Wilson's op-ed. Once again, the owners of the NYT should not have allowed such a misleading sentence to enter their newspaper.
At any rate, we have a very troubling barometer of what the national media have become. They simply cannot be trusted to print in their editorials or articles a set of statements and/or facts that are given a proper context so as not to be purposefully and willfully misleading. I'm sure from a certain perspective that makes good business sense (let's hear from all sides...), but a text without a context is nothing but a pretext, and the latter is mostly what our MSM are now peddling.
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