Here’s one I don’t understand, unless we attribute it to pure stupidity on the part of our Bush supporters and Libby defenders.
When rightwingers complain that Libby was made the ”fall guy,” they seem not to understand that they’re implicating the people ABOVE the Special Assistant to the President – that would be Cheney and Bush.
Categories: Libby · Plame · corruption
With the current media spin to make Libby’s four felony convictions seem not so bad a thing, I’m reminded of how they’ll completely turn the truth on its head to help Bush. In June of 2004, CNN worked its magic this way.
CNN did an interview with Clinton during which his main thrust was that he disagreed with Bush’s decision to go to war without allowing UN inspectors to do their job.
”I didn’t agree with the timing of the attack,” Clinton said.
”I think he should have waited until the U.N. inspections were over,” Clinton said.
‘Pressed on whether the Iraq war was worth the cost to the United States, Clinton said he would not have undertaken the war until after U.N. chief weapons inspector Hans Blix “finished his job.”‘
But then, CNN spins it around and says Clinton supported Bush’s decision.
”(CNN) — Former President Clinton has revealed that he continues to support President Bush’s decision to go to war ”
Simply amazing. *S*
Categories: journalistic integrity
Democrats aren’t the only ones complaining about DOJ’s clumsy handling of the firings of US Attorneys. This appeared in the Las Vegas Review Journal:
‘”What the Justice Department testified yesterday is inconsistent with what they told me,” Ensign said. “I can’t even tell you how upset I am at the Justice Department.”
Asked whether he believed he was misled, Ensign said, “I was not told the same thing that I was at the hearing, let me put it that way.”‘
As we said earlier, this one isn’t going away soon.
Categories: US Attorneys
TPM’s Paul Kiel reports:
“In a letter sent to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales this morning, Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY) charged that the evidence available regarding the administration’s purge of eight U.S. Attorneys showed that ‘the intent was to replace some of these U.S. Attorneys with others who might be more politically-connected.’”
This one isn’t going away anytime soon, folks.
Categories: Gonzales · US Attorneys
Thanks to Eric Boehlert at Media Matters for this piece:
The press has dressed up this Clinton Iraq-vote issue within an inch of its life, all the while insisting that it’s the voters who are angry and annoyed at Clinton and her calculating ways. Now, thanks to polling, we know that’s not entirely true. It’s time for the press to stop telling us what it thinks is important, and start reporting what voters think is important.
Categories: Hillary · journalistic integrity
From the Washington Post.
Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, suggested that Gonzales’s status as the nation’s leading law enforcement officer might not last through the remainder of President Bush’s term, pointedly disputing the attorney general’s public rationale for the mass firings.“One day there will be a new attorney general, maybe sooner rather than later,” Specter said at a committee hearing where a new round of subpoenas to the Justice Department was considered.
Categories: Gonzales · US Attorneys
One of the bloggers who helped cover the Libby trial is Marcy Wheeler. She is the author of Anatomy of Deceit: How the Bush Administration Used the Media to Sell the Iraq War and Out a Spy. She posted this at her blog, The Next Hurrah.
But the real reason I dedicated so much time to this story is because I believe it matters. I said I’m an ordinary citizen, but I do bring a particular perspective to the story. For a PhD at the University of Michigan, I studied a literary-journalistic form called the feuilleton. The feuilleton is a kind of conversational essay that appeared in its own section of newspapers, first started in response to Napoleonic censorship. In the two hundred years since, feuilletons often became important when political polarization or government censorship degraded the traditional news into ideological talking points. At such times, the feuilleton served as a place where writers, speaking in ordinary language, could tell of important events in a more meaningful way.One example I studied was how, during the 1970s in Communist Czechoslovakia, a group of citizens started writing and sharing feuilletons among friends, telling an unofficial version of events, copying them over and passing them on in a form of self-publishing. These citizens would go on to lead a Revolution, the peaceful Velvet Revolution. One of these citizens would even become president.
You see, I came to this story knowing the power of ordinary citizens speaking the truth.
Marcy and others at Firedoglake did a great job, and we owe them a debt of gratitude.
Categories: journalistic integrity
Here’s one I don’t understand, unless we attribute it to pure stupidity on the part of our Bush supporters and Libby defenders.
When rightwingers complain that Libby was made the ”fall guy,” they seem not to understand that they’re implicating the people ABOVE the Special Assistant to the President – that would be Cheney and Bush.
Categories: Libby · Plame · corruption
With the current media spin to make Libby’s four felony convictions seem not so bad a thing, I’m reminded of how they’ll completely turn the truth on its head to help Bush. In June of 2004, CNN worked its magic this way.
CNN did an interview with Clinton during which his main thrust was that he disagreed with Bush’s decision to go to war without allowing UN inspectors to do their job.
”I didn’t agree with the timing of the attack,” Clinton said.
”I think he should have waited until the U.N. inspections were over,” Clinton said.
‘Pressed on whether the Iraq war was worth the cost to the United States, Clinton said he would not have undertaken the war until after U.N. chief weapons inspector Hans Blix “finished his job.”‘
But then, CNN spins it around and says Clinton supported Bush’s decision.
”(CNN) — Former President Clinton has revealed that he continues to support President Bush’s decision to go to war ”
Simply amazing. *S*
Categories: journalistic integrity
Democrats aren’t the only ones complaining about DOJ’s clumsy handling of the firings of US Attorneys. This appeared in the Las Vegas Review Journal:
‘”What the Justice Department testified yesterday is inconsistent with what they told me,” Ensign said. “I can’t even tell you how upset I am at the Justice Department.”
Asked whether he believed he was misled, Ensign said, “I was not told the same thing that I was at the hearing, let me put it that way.”‘
As we said earlier, this one isn’t going away soon.
Categories: US Attorneys
