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"Patriotboy is Fair and Balanced" |
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09 Oct 2003 11:29:14 PM |
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No joke: Fox hires Comical Ali's deputy |
I guess they wanted to raise their credibility.
"Almost all of the bureaucrats at the information ministry have done
very nicely for themselves since the war. The government minders who
spent their days reporting to the intelligence services on foreign
reporters or doing their best to obstruct their work have gone on to
well-paid jobs - for the same foreign news organisations they once
hounded.
The second-in-command at the information ministry, who spent his days
reading the reports the minders wrote about visiting foreign
journalists, has been employed by Fox News."
http://tinyurl.com/qcdl
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"The concept of military necessity is seductively broad, and
has a dangerous plasticity. Because they invariably have the
visage of overriding importance, there is always a temptation
to invoke security "necessities" to justify an encroachment
upon civil liberties. For that reason, the military-security
argument must be approached with a healthy skepticism."
--Justice William Brennan
Tim
"Fair and Balanced"
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| User: "The Fair and Balanced Weasel" |
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09 Oct 2003 11:38:54 PM |
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On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 04:29:14 -0000, Patriotboy is Fair and Balanced
<tim@somecallme.net> wrote:
I guess they wanted to raise their credibility.
Well, that would do it.
"Almost all of the bureaucrats at the information ministry have done
very nicely for themselves since the war. The government minders who
spent their days reporting to the intelligence services on foreign
reporters or doing their best to obstruct their work have gone on to
well-paid jobs - for the same foreign news organisations they once
hounded.
The second-in-command at the information ministry, who spent his days
reading the reports the minders wrote about visiting foreign
journalists, has been employed by Fox News."
http://tinyurl.com/qcdl
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'A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is
very easy to govern. It demands no social reforms. It does not haggle
over expenditures on armaments and military equipment. It pays
without discussion, it ruins itself, and that is an excellent thing
for the syndicates of financiers and manufacturers for whom patriotic
terrors are an abundant source of gain.'
Anatole France
Not dead, in jail, or a slave? Thank a liberal!
Pay your taxes so the rich don't have to.
For the finest in liberal/leftist commentary,
http://www.zeppscommentaries.com
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| User: "Bill Bonde the oblique allusion in lieu of the frontal attack" |
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10 Oct 2003 12:50:25 PM |
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Patriotboy is Fair and Balanced wrote:
I guess they wanted to raise their credibility.
"Almost all of the bureaucrats at the information ministry have done
very nicely for themselves since the war. The government minders who
spent their days reporting to the intelligence services on foreign
reporters or doing their best to obstruct their work have gone on to
well-paid jobs - for the same foreign news organisations they once
hounded.
The second-in-command at the information ministry, who spent his days
reading the reports the minders wrote about visiting foreign
journalists, has been employed by Fox News."
http://tinyurl.com/qcdl
--
"The concept of military necessity is seductively broad, and
has a dangerous plasticity. Because they invariably have the
visage of overriding importance, there is always a temptation
to invoke security "necessities" to justify an encroachment
upon civil liberties. For that reason, the military-security
argument must be approached with a healthy skepticism."
--Justice William Brennan
Tim
"Fair and Balanced"
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http://www.msnbc.com/news/976111.asp
#begin quote
In February 2002, the CIA sent former ambassador Joseph Wilson IV to the
African country of Niger to check on reports that the Iraqis tried to
buy yellowcake uranium to make a nuclear weapon.
Wilson, an experienced Africa hand, eagerly took on the CIA assignment
to poke around Niger. (He accepted no pay, other than expenses.) After
drinking mint tea and talking to Niger officials for about a week,
Wilson concluded that the reports of Iraqi uranium purchases were almost
certainly bogus.
#end quote
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| User: "Kurt Lochner" |
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| Title: Re: No joke: Fox hires Comical Ali's deputy |
10 Oct 2003 01:23:01 PM |
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Shrill Bonehead ("What can I go by if not repeated media reports on something?") <stderr@backpacker.com> wrote:
Patriotboy is Fair and Balanced wrote:
I guess they wanted to raise their credibility.
"Almost all of the bureaucrats at the information ministry have done
very nicely for themselves since the war. The government minders who
spent their days reporting to the intelligence services on foreign
reporters or doing their best to obstruct their work have gone on to
well-paid jobs - for the same foreign news organisations they once
hounded.
The second-in-command at the information ministry, who spent his days
reading the reports the minders wrote about visiting foreign
journalists, has been employed by Fox News."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1058867,00.html
Everywhere and nowhere,
Saddam retains his grip on Baghdad's imagination
Suzanne Goldenberg finds six months after the dictator's
statue fell, the US authority has not extinguished his legacy
Thursday October 9, 2003 The Guardian
Not many days go by in Baghdad without a claimed sighting of
Saddam Hussein, recklessly turning up in close proximity to the
American forces, or rallying the faithful in his old haunts,
depending on who is spinning the story.
The multiplicity of sightings is all the more strange given that
there was very little chance of ever seeing Saddam in the flesh
while he was in power. In the run-up to the war I don't recall
ever meeting anyone who could claim to have met the Iraqi leader.
So it is not entirely surprising that as long as the real Saddam
has remained tantalisingly close and yet so elusive, the US-led
occupation authority holed up among the dubious splendours
of his Republican Palace remains less than charitably inclined
towards things created in his image.
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http://www.msnbc.com/news/976111.asp
#begin quote
*>LOL!<* I've noticed that you didn't respond to these cites..
http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/000392.html
The Timeline of the Niger Uranium Charge
Feb 2002: Ambassador Wilson is asked to
investigate the Saddam-Niger nuclear
charges. He reports back that there is
absolutely no truth to this. Report submitted
to Cheney's office.
Sep 2002: UK intelligence issues Sept
dossier and includes this charge as proof of
Saddam's perfidity. [Aside: So who provided
it to the UK? Was it the CIA?]
Dec 19, 2002: CIA/State Department fact
sheet published. (pdf) The Niger charge was
explicitly mentioned:
This fact sheet was a joint product of the CIA
and State Department and it included this
phrase, "The declaration ignores efforts to
procure uranium from Niger."
Okay, now here's an excerpt from the pdf at..
http://www.house.gov/reform/min/pdfs_108/pdf_inves/pdf_admin_iraq_nuclear_evidence_june_12_statement.pdf
For nearly three months, I have been asking a simple question:
Why did President Bush cite forged evidence about Iraq’s nuclear
capabilities in his State of the Union address?
The first response from the Administration, which was provided
to the Washington Post, was that “we fell for it.”1
The second response was that everything the White House said was
closely vetted by the intelligence agencies.2
Now we learn through the Washington Post that the Administration
has a third explanation: The CIA knew as early as the beginning
of 2002 that the documents were forged, but actively misled the
White House.3
According to the Post, the “decision to send an emissary to Niger
was triggered by questions raised by an aide to Vice President Cheney
during an agency briefing on intelligence circulating about the
purported Iraqi efforts to acquire the uranium.” Although “Cheney
and his staff continued to get intelligence on the matter,”
the Administration claims now that “the CIA did not pass on the
detailed results of its investigation to the White House or
other government agencies.”4
And also..
http://www.time.com/time/columnist/karon/article/0,9565,463779,00.html
Even more damning are reports that CIA sources insist the Bush
administration was made aware some time before the State of the
Union address that the Niger allegation was false. If those prove
true, it kicks the jams out from under the administration's claim
that the presence of a falsehood in the President's case against
Iraq was simply the product of ignorance. And it may be expected
that the CIA will more and more sharply signal that it passed its
findings up the food chain, because on the basis of Ambassador
Wilson's revelations, they'd be left to take the blame if they didn't.
Then again, the media may turn its attention to the role of the
Vice President's office: After all, Ambassador Wilson claims his
inquiry was initiated by a request from ***** Cheney's office
to check out the allegation. So presumably, Wilson's findings
will have been reported back there.
I suggest further reading at..
http://www.federalexaminer.com/archives/000071.html
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0721-01.htm
http://www.nonviolence.org/articles/000050.php
http://uspolitics.about.com/library/weekly/aa060903_SOTU_investigationa.htm
--But, that's why you're known as a LYING right-wing shill, Bonehead..
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| User: "Bill Bonde the oblique allusion in lieu of the frontal attack" |
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| Title: Re: No joke: Fox hires Comical Ali's deputy |
10 Oct 2003 12:51:41 PM |
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Patriotboy is Fair and Balanced wrote:
I guess they wanted to raise their credibility.
Maybe they think this guy can provide an inside prospective on Iraq
before the fall of Saddam.
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| User: "Bob Dog" |
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12 Oct 2003 09:48:51 AM |
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"Bill Bonde ( the oblique allusion in lieu of the frontal attack )" <stderr2@backpacker.com> wrote in message news:<3F86F1AD.2DF26EC1@backpacker.com>...
Patriotboy is Fair and Balanced wrote:
I guess they wanted to raise their credibility.
Maybe they think this guy can provide an inside prospective on Iraq
before the fall of Saddam.
The US _got_ it's WMD info from a former Saddam loyalist
who defected in 1992. He told the US Gov. that there
*were no WMDs*, that all were destroyed by UN inspectors.
Shrub, of course, did not consider this information
relevant when presenting his "case" to the UN last year.
Bob Dog
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| User: "Bill Bonde the oblique allusion in lieu of the frontal attack" |
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12 Oct 2003 04:03:06 PM |
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Bob Dog wrote:
"Bill Bonde ( the oblique allusion in lieu of the frontal attack )" <stderr2@backpacker.com> wrote in message news:<3F86F1AD.2DF26EC1@backpacker.com>...
Patriotboy is Fair and Balanced wrote:
I guess they wanted to raise their credibility.
Maybe they think this guy can provide an inside prospective on Iraq
before the fall of Saddam.
The US _got_ it's WMD info from a former Saddam loyalist
who defected in 1992. He told the US Gov. that there
*were no WMDs*, that all were destroyed by UN inspectors.
Really? Because there are defectors who wrote books about how Saddam had
WMDs. This stuff was coming out of Iraq full tilt.
Shrub, of course, did not consider this information
relevant when presenting his "case" to the UN last year.
Why is it relevant?
Bob Dog
Bob's your dog?
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| User: "The Fair and Balanced Weasel" |
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11 Oct 2003 09:59:23 AM |
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On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 10:51:41 -0700, "Bill Bonde ( the oblique allusion
in lieu of the frontal attack )" <stderr2@backpacker.com> wrote:
Patriotboy is Fair and Balanced wrote:
I guess they wanted to raise their credibility.
Maybe they think this guy can provide an inside prospective on Iraq
before the fall of Saddam.
"Instead of executing you, will pay you lots of money to get on our TV
and bad-mouth your exboss."
And some people are surprised that a study shows Faux viewers are
dumber and less informed than normal human beings.
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'A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is
very easy to govern. It demands no social reforms. It does not haggle
over expenditures on armaments and military equipment. It pays
without discussion, it ruins itself, and that is an excellent thing
for the syndicates of financiers and manufacturers for whom patriotic
terrors are an abundant source of gain.'
Anatole France
Not dead, in jail, or a slave? Thank a liberal!
Pay your taxes so the rich don't have to.
For the finest in liberal/leftist commentary,
http://www.zeppscommentaries.com
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| User: "Bill Bonde the oblique allusion in lieu of the frontal attack" |
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11 Oct 2003 11:27:50 AM |
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The Fair and Balanced Weasel wrote:
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 10:51:41 -0700, "Bill Bonde ( the oblique allusion
in lieu of the frontal attack )" <stderr2@backpacker.com> wrote:
Patriotboy is Fair and Balanced wrote:
I guess they wanted to raise their credibility.
Maybe they think this guy can provide an inside prospective on Iraq
before the fall of Saddam.
"Instead of executing you, will pay you lots of money to get on our TV
and bad-mouth your exboss."
How dumb would you have to be to think that a news network would have
the option of putting people to death instead of interviewing them as
expert witnesses?
And some people are surprised that a study shows Faux viewers are
dumber and less informed than normal human beings.
How about the dumb people who hold opinions such as 'Bush caused the
recession', 'the WTC collapse is being exaggerated and taken too
seriously by the administration', stuff like that? The 'study' that you
cite is clearly biased.
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| User: "The Fair and Balanced Weasel" |
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11 Oct 2003 02:27:26 PM |
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On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 09:27:50 -0700, "Bill Bonde ( the oblique allusion
in lieu of the frontal attack )" <stderr2@backpacker.com> wrote:
The Fair and Balanced Weasel wrote:
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 10:51:41 -0700, "Bill Bonde ( the oblique allusion
in lieu of the frontal attack )" <stderr2@backpacker.com> wrote:
Patriotboy is Fair and Balanced wrote:
I guess they wanted to raise their credibility.
Maybe they think this guy can provide an inside prospective on Iraq
before the fall of Saddam.
"Instead of executing you, will pay you lots of money to get on our TV
and bad-mouth your exboss."
How dumb would you have to be to think that a news network would have
the option of putting people to death instead of interviewing them as
expert witnesses?
Well, why don't you tell us how that works? Wasn't this guy wanted by
the US government?
And some people are surprised that a study shows Faux viewers are
dumber and less informed than normal human beings.
How about the dumb people who hold opinions such as 'Bush caused the
recession', 'the WTC collapse is being exaggerated and taken too
seriously by the administration', stuff like that? The 'study' that you
cite is clearly biased.
Sounds like you are desperately flailing about, trying to change the
subject here.
Maybe Faux can hire Saddam to provide color commentary on the World
Series.
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'A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is
very easy to govern. It demands no social reforms. It does not haggle
over expenditures on armaments and military equipment. It pays
without discussion, it ruins itself, and that is an excellent thing
for the syndicates of financiers and manufacturers for whom patriotic
terrors are an abundant source of gain.'
Anatole France
Not dead, in jail, or a slave? Thank a liberal!
Pay your taxes so the rich don't have to.
For the finest in liberal/leftist commentary,
http://www.zeppscommentaries.com
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| User: "Bill Bonde the oblique allusion in lieu of the frontal attack" |
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11 Oct 2003 04:19:03 PM |
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The Fair and Balanced Weasel wrote:
On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 09:27:50 -0700, "Bill Bonde ( the oblique allusion
in lieu of the frontal attack )" <stderr2@backpacker.com> wrote:
The Fair and Balanced Weasel wrote:
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 10:51:41 -0700, "Bill Bonde ( the oblique allusion
in lieu of the frontal attack )" <stderr2@backpacker.com> wrote:
Patriotboy is Fair and Balanced wrote:
I guess they wanted to raise their credibility.
Maybe they think this guy can provide an inside prospective on Iraq
before the fall of Saddam.
"Instead of executing you, will pay you lots of money to get on our TV
and bad-mouth your exboss."
How dumb would you have to be to think that a news network would have
the option of putting people to death instead of interviewing them as
expert witnesses?
Well, why don't you tell us how that works? Wasn't this guy wanted by
the US government?
We have a past tense and a present tense in English for a reason.
And some people are surprised that a study shows Faux viewers are
dumber and less informed than normal human beings.
How about the dumb people who hold opinions such as 'Bush caused the
recession', 'the WTC collapse is being exaggerated and taken too
seriously by the administration', stuff like that? The 'study' that you
cite is clearly biased.
Sounds like you are desperately flailing about, trying to change the
subject here.
Maybe you could tell me what the subject was. I thought the comment was
that Fox viewers held untrue views on certain tested subjects as claimed
by a recent study. I was just pointing out that they could've gotten a
lot of wacko Libs in their net had they not biased the study questions.
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| User: "Fred Stone" |
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11 Oct 2003 02:35:36 PM |
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The Fair and Balanced Weasel wrote:
On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 09:27:50 -0700, "Bill Bonde ( the oblique allusion
in lieu of the frontal attack )" <stderr2@backpacker.com> wrote:
The Fair and Balanced Weasel wrote:
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 10:51:41 -0700, "Bill Bonde ( the oblique allusion
in lieu of the frontal attack )" <stderr2@backpacker.com> wrote:
Patriotboy is Fair and Balanced wrote:
I guess they wanted to raise their credibility.
Maybe they think this guy can provide an inside prospective on Iraq
before the fall of Saddam.
"Instead of executing you, will pay you lots of money to get on our TV
and bad-mouth your exboss."
How dumb would you have to be to think that a news network would have
the option of putting people to death instead of interviewing them as
expert witnesses?
Well, why don't you tell us how that works? Wasn't this guy wanted by
the US government?
I thought they released him already.
--
Fred Stone
Conquering the Galaxy since 2003
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| User: "Fred Stone" |
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11 Oct 2003 12:01:08 PM |
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The Fair and Balanced Weasel wrote:
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 10:51:41 -0700, "Bill Bonde ( the oblique allusion
in lieu of the frontal attack )" <stderr2@backpacker.com> wrote:
Patriotboy is Fair and Balanced wrote:
I guess they wanted to raise their credibility.
Maybe they think this guy can provide an inside prospective on Iraq
before the fall of Saddam.
"Instead of executing you, will pay you lots of money to get on our TV
and bad-mouth your exboss."
I see you've already decided what his role will be, before he ever gets
on the air. Maybe they just want a native Iraqi perspective on their
reporting. What a concept!
And some people are surprised that a study shows Faux viewers are
dumber and less informed than normal human beings.
What exactly is wrong with a network hiring some Iraqi to report from
his perspective on what's going on over there?
--
Fred Stone
Conquering the Galaxy since 2003
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| User: "The Fair and Balanced Weasel" |
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11 Oct 2003 02:30:35 PM |
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On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 13:01:08 -0400, Fred Stone
<fstone69@earthling.com> wrote:
The Fair and Balanced Weasel wrote:
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 10:51:41 -0700, "Bill Bonde ( the oblique allusion
in lieu of the frontal attack )" <stderr2@backpacker.com> wrote:
Patriotboy is Fair and Balanced wrote:
I guess they wanted to raise their credibility.
Maybe they think this guy can provide an inside prospective on Iraq
before the fall of Saddam.
"Instead of executing you, will pay you lots of money to get on our TV
and bad-mouth your exboss."
I see you've already decided what his role will be, before he ever gets
on the air. Maybe they just want a native Iraqi perspective on their
reporting. What a concept!
On Faux news? Don't make me laugh.
And some people are surprised that a study shows Faux viewers are
dumber and less informed than normal human beings.
What exactly is wrong with a network hiring some Iraqi to report from
his perspective on what's going on over there?
Why not hire Saddam himself?
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'A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is
very easy to govern. It demands no social reforms. It does not haggle
over expenditures on armaments and military equipment. It pays
without discussion, it ruins itself, and that is an excellent thing
for the syndicates of financiers and manufacturers for whom patriotic
terrors are an abundant source of gain.'
Anatole France
Not dead, in jail, or a slave? Thank a liberal!
Pay your taxes so the rich don't have to.
For the finest in liberal/leftist commentary,
http://www.zeppscommentaries.com
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| User: "Fred Stone" |
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11 Oct 2003 02:38:24 PM |
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The Fair and Balanced Weasel wrote:
On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 13:01:08 -0400, Fred Stone
<fstone69@earthling.com> wrote:
The Fair and Balanced Weasel wrote:
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 10:51:41 -0700, "Bill Bonde ( the oblique allusion
in lieu of the frontal attack )" <stderr2@backpacker.com> wrote:
Patriotboy is Fair and Balanced wrote:
I guess they wanted to raise their credibility.
Maybe they think this guy can provide an inside prospective on Iraq
before the fall of Saddam.
"Instead of executing you, will pay you lots of money to get on our TV
and bad-mouth your exboss."
I see you've already decided what his role will be, before he ever gets
on the air. Maybe they just want a native Iraqi perspective on their
reporting. What a concept!
On Faux news? Don't make me laugh.
I haven't heard any of his stuff yet, have you?
And some people are surprised that a study shows Faux viewers are
dumber and less informed than normal human beings.
What exactly is wrong with a network hiring some Iraqi to report from
his perspective on what's going on over there?
Why not hire Saddam himself?
I bet he'd get some hellacious ratings. ;-)
--
Fred Stone
Conquering the Galaxy since 2003
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| User: "Kurt Lochner" |
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10 Oct 2003 01:23:01 PM |
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Shrill Bondufus () <stderr@backpacker.com> whined again at:
Patriotboy is Fair and Balanced wrote:
I guess they wanted to raise their credibility.
"Almost all of the bureaucrats at the information ministry have done
very nicely for themselves since the war. The government minders who
spent their days reporting to the intelligence services on foreign
reporters or doing their best to obstruct their work have gone on to
well-paid jobs - for the same foreign news organisations they once
hounded.
The second-in-command at the information ministry, who spent his days
reading the reports the minders wrote about visiting foreign
journalists, has been employed by Fox News."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1058867,00.html
Everywhere and nowhere,
Saddam retains his grip on Baghdad's imagination
Suzanne Goldenberg finds six months after the dictator's
statue fell, the US authority has not extinguished his legacy
Thursday October 9, 2003 The Guardian
Not many days go by in Baghdad without a claimed sighting of
Saddam Hussein, recklessly turning up in close proximity to the
American forces, or rallying the faithful in his old haunts,
depending on who is spinning the story.
The multiplicity of sightings is all the more strange given that
there was very little chance of ever seeing Saddam in the flesh
while he was in power. In the run-up to the war I don't recall
ever meeting anyone who could claim to have met the Iraqi leader.
So it is not entirely surprising that as long as the real Saddam
has remained tantalisingly close and yet so elusive, the US-led
occupation authority holed up among the dubious splendours
of his Republican Palace remains less than charitably inclined
towards things created in his image.
Maybe they think this guy can provide an inside prospective
on Iraq before the fall of Saddam.
Maybe you think that filling all those media jobs with
right-wing conservatives can provide fair and balanced
reporting of the facts..
*>LOL!<* I've noticed that you didn't respond to these cites..
http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/000392.html
The Timeline of the Niger Uranium Charge
Feb 2002: Ambassador Wilson is asked to
investigate the Saddam-Niger nuclear
charges. He reports back that there is
absolutely no truth to this. Report submitted
to Cheney's office.
Sep 2002: UK intelligence issues Sept
dossier and includes this charge as proof of
Saddam's perfidity. [Aside: So who provided
it to the UK? Was it the CIA?]
Dec 19, 2002: CIA/State Department fact
sheet published. (pdf) The Niger charge was
explicitly mentioned:
This fact sheet was a joint product of the CIA
and State Department and it included this
phrase, "The declaration ignores efforts to
procure uranium from Niger."
Okay, now here's an excerpt from the pdf at..
http://www.house.gov/reform/min/pdfs_108/pdf_inves/pdf_admin_iraq_nuclear_evidence_june_12_statement.pdf
For nearly three months, I have been asking a simple question:
Why did President Bush cite forged evidence about Iraq’s nuclear
capabilities in his State of the Union address?
The first response from the Administration, which was provided
to the Washington Post, was that “we fell for it.”1
The second response was that everything the White House said was
closely vetted by the intelligence agencies.2
Now we learn through the Washington Post that the Administration
has a third explanation: The CIA knew as early as the beginning
of 2002 that the documents were forged, but actively misled the
White House.3
According to the Post, the “decision to send an emissary to Niger
was triggered by questions raised by an aide to Vice President Cheney
during an agency briefing on intelligence circulating about the
purported Iraqi efforts to acquire the uranium.” Although “Cheney
and his staff continued to get intelligence on the matter,”
the Administration claims now that “the CIA did not pass on the
detailed results of its investigation to the White House or
other government agencies.”4
And also..
http://www.time.com/time/columnist/karon/article/0,9565,463779,00.html
Even more damning are reports that CIA sources insist the Bush
administration was made aware some time before the State of the
Union address that the Niger allegation was false. If those prove
true, it kicks the jams out from under the administration's claim
that the presence of a falsehood in the President's case against
Iraq was simply the product of ignorance. And it may be expected
that the CIA will more and more sharply signal that it passed its
findings up the food chain, because on the basis of Ambassador
Wilson's revelations, they'd be left to take the blame if they didn't.
Then again, the media may turn its attention to the role of the
Vice President's office: After all, Ambassador Wilson claims his
inquiry was initiated by a request from ***** Cheney's office
to check out the allegation. So presumably, Wilson's findings
will have been reported back there.
I suggest further reading at..
http://www.federalexaminer.com/archives/000071.html
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0721-01.htm
http://www.nonviolence.org/articles/000050.php
http://uspolitics.about.com/library/weekly/aa060903_SOTU_investigationa.htm
--But, that's why you're known as a LYING right-wing shill, Bonehead..
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