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| jazzreport | Posted – 1/24/2008 9:20:49 AM | show profile AP, MSNBC, CNN and the New York Times on Wednesday all promoted a ?study? by a couple of affiliated far-left groups, supposedly documenting ?935 false statements? about Iraq made by Bush officials, but in hyping the proof of ?lies? which led to war, the news outlets disguised the ideology of the groups -- led by a former ABC and CBS reporter/producer -- and how many of the ?false? statements were about Iraq possessing WMD, which FNC's Brit Hume pointed out was ?a concept nearly universally accepted by most of the world's intelligence services at the time.? Keith Olbermann, who in 2006 slammed the Media Research Center as a ?rabid right-wing spin group,? Wednesday night on Countdown with ?935 lies? on screen on top of a picture of Bush, Rumsfeld and Cheney, described the Center for Public Integrity and Fund for Independence in Journalism as merely ?two non-profit groups? who have ?done the algebra? on ?the administration's countless lies about Iraq.? Last September, CNN's Jack Cafferty accurately described the MRC as a ?conservative media watchdog outfit,? but he euphemistically tagged the left-wing groups as ?two non-profit journalism groups? with a study which ?found President Bush led the pack with 260 lies.? Cafferty's labeling echoed AP's reference to ?two non-profit journalism organizations.? MSNBC's Dan Abrams lent the Center for Public Integrity (CPI) credibility as ?a non-profit, non-partisan investigative journalism group.? On WashingtonPost.com, Dan Froomkin hailed the ?non-profit group pursuing old-fashioned accountability journalism? and a Wednesday New York Times story cited CPI as ?a research group that focuses on ethics in government and public policy.? From Newsbusters |
| keltoi2 | Posted – 1/24/2008 9:57:11 AM | show profile Whydo, I'm too tired to argue this with you again, so I'm cutting and pasting my response to your tired paranoia on another thread. ottom line: if it's false: prove it. I don't know why I'm bothering whydo, but hope springs eternal, so I'll explain it to you. The study examined statements by Bush and his cronies about Iraq. It found 935 jen-yoo-wine statements made by this crowd that turned out to be not true. As in false. As in lies. It's a simple test. Did they say these things? Yes. Were their claims true? No. Did they have any proof to show that their claims were true? No. Then these statements were? False. Then Bush, Powell, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld et al? Lied. So it doesn't matter a tinker's dam who financed it. They could have financed it with a bake sale, and it wouldn't change the truth. |
| chucho | Posted – 1/24/2008 1:12:14 PM | show profile >> So it doesn't matter a tinker's dam who financed it. << It does to the 22 Percenter. "George Soros" is a magic incantation. All the 22 Percenter has to do is utter those magical two words and then they are free from any further debate on the subject. The two words, when used together (and in English: if you say "Jorge Soros" the spell won't work), is a powerful and magical spell that retroactively erases form existence such statements as: ""Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. There is no doubt he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us."" GEORGE SOROS! (*Poof!* Now, Cheney never said those words!) "The Iraqi regime possesses biological and chemical weapons, is rebuilding the facilities to make more and, according to the British government, could launch a biological or chemical attack in as little as 45 minutes after the order is given. . . . This regime is seeking a nuclear bomb, and with fissile material could build one within a year." GOERGE SOROS! (*Whoosh* Bush never said it.) "We found the weapons of mass destruction. We found biological laboratories." GEORGE SOROS! (*Shazam!* Never happened.) "What we're giving you are facts and conclusions based on solid intelligence. I will cite some examples, and these are from human sources." GEORGE SOROS! (*Plink!* Powell who?) IMAGINE IF WE COULD APPLY THIS MAGIC TO OUR BORING, EVERYDAY LIVES!! "Honey, while you're visiting you mother I promise I will clean out the garage" (A month passes) "Sweetheart, you said you'd clean out the garage while I was away visitn my mother." "Goerge Soros! What did you say, honey? I didn't hear you." "I said: When are you gonna clean out the garage?" |
