Media: Don’t Believe The Iraq Documents
March 18, 2006 – 8:56 am by Jeff1999The reams of Iraq documents have finally been released, revealing some very interesting stuff, including documents supporting the link between Bin Laden and Saddam. And what does the media do? They basically tell us that they shouldn’t be believed.
Rather than simply reporting the facts and circumstances surrounding the source of the documents, and letting the reader decide how credible they are, ABC takes the remarkable step of adding a lengthy editorial note at the end of the story, discounting the veracity of the document.
Just to make sure the reader draws the “correct” conclusion about the legitimacy of the documents I guess.
Then again, at least ABC was kind enough to openly segregate the reporting with the editorializing this time.
[...] Still, the scarecrows in the media tell us don’t believe in that truth, it’s not important anyway. [...]
[...] Jeff1999 from Musing Minds has written a couple of very good posts regarding the way the press reports what’s going on in Iraq here and here. [...]
[...] Once the left is back in power, however, Iraq will miraculously become a stunning success story, the economy will be “booming“…oh, and the homeless will disappear again - poof! They’ve been at our soup kitchen at church through every president for the last 20 years, near as I can tell, but they don’t exist when the right party has the White House. When the right party has the White House, then the liberation of millions of tyrannized people, the opportunities for women who had previously been denied them…all of that will become newsworthy. It will be celebrated. Oprah will do a show. When the right party is in office, the thousands of recently released Iraqi documents and what they reveal will also suddenly become newsworthy and credible. When the right party is in power -when they have the house and senate - the 22nd amendment will be repealed, and the left will remain entrenched in the White House forevermore, thanks to the compliant press who will spike any news it doesn’t like or which doesn’t help the cause. [...]