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| 2001-09-28 |
| Kaus Files You know the 9/11 angle that implicitly criticizes the U.S. government because earlier this year it "gave the Taliban a forty-three-million-dollar grant for banning poppy cultivation," as a New Yorker lead editorial put it? It turns out to have been too good to check. Dan Kennedy has what seems to be the real story (which is that the money was Afghan relief aid specifically not given to the Taliban). ... The main culprit in fathering the falsehood seems to have been the LAT's Robert Scheer, who apparently misread a NYT story when writing a column back in May. (Scheer didn't respond when asked to comment, Kennedy reports.) Scheer tried to discreetly clean up his mess in a post-9/11 column, but too late to stop the mostly-bogus angle from being prominently recycled, in the New Yorker and elsewhere. ... (9/27) |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |