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Babs: "Dewd! Where's my free press?"
... So it's no wonder that the press has taken a backseat to reporting the misdeeds of this administration.
| ... since they couldn't keep up with bloggers. |
It's not surprising that the press failed to ask the hard questions leading up to the war in Iraq, when a more informed public still had time to speak up.
| ... and would have said the same thing. |
Never mind that CBS's story included substantive and uncontested evidence that Bush didn't show up for duty when he was supposed to, that he skipped a required physical that grounded him from flying, and that he mysteriously received an honorable discharge.
| Forgeries, Babs! 4-ger-ies! False! Lying! Plants! If the keystone of your argument is made up of 4-ger-ies then the remainder of your argument is suspect. |
Yes...the documents CBS presented could not be confirmed for their authenticity, but these details of Bush's military record have been out for public consumption for years.
| "Could not be confirmed for their authenticity" = 4-ger-ies. False. Lying. Made up. |
Why is the media not discussing the facts behind the story instead of just focusing on CBS?
| Because it was CBS that turned into a second, unique story, using forged documents that it should have been able assuming even minimal competence to prove or disprove. Instead, they went with what they wanted to be true, whether it was true or not. SeeBS as a result has lost the reputation it built over many years and was only destroying by incremental degrees up to now. SeeBS's self-destruction became the story, and it's more important than Bush's actions in a national guard unit 30 years ago. |
For example, Killian's secretary said those memos accurately reflected the Colonel's feelings.
| And his wife and son, who presumably knew him better unless he was banging the secretary, said they didn't. |
Ben Barnes, former lieutenant governor of Texas, admitted that he pulled strings to get Bush into the National Air Guard.
| And his own daughter called him a liar. |
And Robert Mintz, retired National Guardsman who served in Bush's unit in 1972, doesn't remember seeing him there.
| Didja ask Bush if he recalls seeing Robert Mintz? Maybe they were ships passing in the night. Maybe they weren't people who needed people... |
And in contrast to Senator John Kerry, who said "send me" when given the option to go to Vietnam, according to the LA Times, when asked the same question, Bush checked the box stating "do not volunteer for overseas."
| Probably because he was in the National Guard, not in the regulars. Babs is working on the mistaken assumption that the regulars resented the reserves and National Guard. That's not the case, and it wasn't even the case way back then... |
The media's attention is diverted from the real story because we now live in a time where the fear of revenge by this administration sends a chill through the corporations that control our media and overwhelms the press' responsibility to investigate, educate and hold our leaders accountable.
| Oh, yasss! Look at the Dire Revenge the administration's taken on... ummm... Helen Thomas. And for what? Just because she's become senile? And look at Molly Ivins! Look at what they've done to her!... Oh. Sorry. She did that. |
Posted by: Fred 2004-09-29 |
