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Sean McCormack b*tch-slaps Knight-Ridder on Iraq/al-Qaeda ties

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Posted by Dan Darling 2004-03-13 12:54:29 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Was this disseminated by the NSC? Has anyone besides readers of this site seen this?

Don't know whether to laugh or cry. After literally years of wildly distorted "reporting" on foreign policy issues including the subject of this statement, we're finally seeing some push-back by the administration? The WH could keep a staff of 15 busy full-time correcting the fiction and distortion in media coverage of several key issues. Why don't they?

It's a small miracle the American people are as sensible as they are about these things, considering the non-stop crap they're fed by most media (bolstered by the same tired unpersuasive "experts" and pathetic "anonymous officials"). Why not improve our odds and get in the game on a regular basis, guys?

Posted by IceCold 2004-3-13 1:13:36 AM|| 2004-3-13 1:13:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Ice, go to the link through the headline. The Knight Ridder article starts with: The following is a letter from Sean McCormack, spokesman for the president's National Security Council, in response to a March 3 story by Jonathan Landay, Warren Strobel and John Walcott of the Knight Ridder Washington bureau. I agree the administration needs an effective, rapid response team to answer the BS from the media/DNC.

Posted by GK 2004-3-13 7:46:31 AM|| 2004-3-13 7:46:31 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 "It's a small miracle the American people are as sensible as they are about these things, considering the non-stop crap they're fed by most media..."
I'd class it as a MAJOR miracle. I don't think the administration expected, not in a million years, that the Democratic Party leadership, in collusion with our leftist media, would so readily sacrifice U.S. security for the sake of regaining political power.

These people are naive, and they'd better fix that, quick. EVERY false allegation must be countered with the facts, EVERY time it is repeated.

Posted by Dave D. 2004-3-13 8:07:35 AM|| 2004-3-13 8:07:35 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 I'm kind of torn here. I want the President to pound these people with the truth. Also, I don't think he should have to defend his administration against every nnut-ball claim. Clearly the DNC latches onto every tinfoil hat statement like a tgier looking at red meat. I think that like Howling Howard the DNC will find out (too late) that people simple don't think that jounalists (and politicians) have any credibility.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2004-3-13 10:19:58 AM|| 2004-3-13 10:19:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 It's worse than not having credibility anymore - they have negative credibility. When I hear Big Media say the sky is blue, I'm beginning to reflexively think, well then, that must mean it is not blue afterall.

Posted by B 2004-3-13 10:56:38 AM|| 2004-3-13 10:56:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Cyber Sarge: I agree, however, there are multi ways to present information. The president needn't disseminate info framed as a defensive response to criticism. He should simply begin presenting reality in factual terms, in a positive light, over and over and over again.

The facts themselves will rebutt the tripe spewed by the American left (fucking french-licking national-security-trashing fucking punks).

Of course, lemming partisans won't be swayed. But don't forget the fence-sitting undecided voter, and the independant-still-deciding-if-this-is-the-election-where-I-will-finally-be-compelled-to-vote-for-a-major-party-candidate voter; now THAT'S a target demographic for your message!

Over and over and over again...

Posted by Hyper 2004-3-13 11:05:01 AM|| 2004-3-13 11:05:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 In Chicago we have a saying: "never let the sun go down on a lie." Politicans here know that if an opponent says something about them, they get in front of a microphone TODAY -- not tomorrow, not next week, in time for the 6 o'clock news TODAY -- and set the record straight. The Bush team needs to get a lot better about this. They could learn something from Bill Clinton; his two presidental campaigns were masters at this.

Posted by Steve White 2004-3-13 1:12:23 PM|| 2004-3-13 1:12:23 PM|| Front Page Top

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