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calimary

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14. The McClatchy newspapers were some of the VERY few publications to get the Iraq War/WMD scam right.
Mon Mar 20, 2017, 11:12 PM
Mar 2017

VERY few major papers or chains did anything but genuflect and take the phony baloney from the cheney machine and simply swallow it and shit it out onto their front pages without bothering to ask too many questions or dig into any truths. The Knight Ridder papers weren't fooled much, either.

The New York Times, on the other hand, was TOTALLY owned at that time. A wholly-owned subsidiary of the Vice President's info-manipulation machine. A literal dumping ground of bush/cheney lies about the war and about Saddam Hussein and the effort to sweep up everything about 9/11 and blame it all on Iraq. cheney would drop nice tasty little dog biscuits on his little pet Judith Miller, and she'd dutifully write it all up, attribute it to unnamed sources high up in the administration who didn't want to be identified. NO DUH! They were mainly cheney! Then her latest big story would land on the front page of the New York Times Sunday edition, usually two-columns above the fold, and then cheney and his little band of liars (rummy, wolfie, contradicta, etc) would fan out across the Sunday morning news shows and spread the story, with the inevitable "it's the FRONT PAGE STORY IN THE NEW YORK TIMES!!!!!!!OMG!!!!!!!OMG!!!!!!!" NO DUH! The story cheney had planted with Judith Miller, a day or so earlier. Like a news Mobius strip from Hell.

lmao Russia clearly was using America as a test lab for its democratic subversion techniques Jonny Appleseed Mar 2017 #1
Test lab? No, Putin was playing for real stakes. Just that neither tRump nor Putin expected to win. Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2017 #6
Putin wanted to win, but he teamed up with a bunch of clowns that notdarkyet Mar 2017 #22
Criminals often make mistakes Eyeball_Kid Mar 2017 #28
Agreed, I bet he regrets aiding and abetting a ginormous Charles Bukowski Mar 2017 #29
I've read that he's doing it... zentrum Mar 2017 #18
The original McClatchyDC story is posted here: pnwmom Mar 2017 #2
Haaaaaaa shenmue Mar 2017 #3
YES! When one goes down they all topple down. These are the scourge of the interent Maraya1969 Mar 2017 #4
You mean RUSSIA brought us... regnaD kciN Mar 2017 #5
LOLOLOLOL..... Grassy Knoll Mar 2017 #7
K&R! MelissaB Mar 2017 #8
Take down Infowars and Breitbart along with Trump Tinamarief57 Mar 2017 #9
Welcome to DU gopiscrap Mar 2017 #19
Welcome to DU Tinamarief57. eom littlemissmartypants Mar 2017 #23
And while they're at it... someone needs to take a good, long look at the Mercer family... Raster Mar 2017 #10
+1000 BadgerMom Mar 2017 #21
absolutely! Robert Mercer has gone out of his way to be nonchalant and discrete... Raster Mar 2017 #24
I doubt they were knowingly colluding with Russia as there is to much risk to them legally cstanleytech Mar 2017 #11
I hope all this coming out helps with the French and German elections soon where they lunasun Mar 2017 #12
Excellent. KnR Hekate Mar 2017 #13
The McClatchy newspapers were some of the VERY few publications to get the Iraq War/WMD scam right. calimary Mar 2017 #14
Thank you for your crystal clear memory! UpInArms Mar 2017 #17
They will scream Miigwech Mar 2017 #15
I wonder if the FBI will look into the DU hack. It seemed well-thought-out C Moon Mar 2017 #16
The TYT and The Intercept and their agenda as well n/t Chevy Mar 2017 #20
Wow, the US must investigate and fully understand how all of the different UCmeNdc Mar 2017 #25
It will be nice if the only large scale deportations we see from now on Warpy Mar 2017 #27
how long has putin been using team limbaugh? certainot Mar 2017 #26
Breitbart & Infowars & FOX. fixed it. Only 3 news Repub. party tweeted the most entire campaign! Sunlei Mar 2017 #30
LOCK THEM UP! jpak Mar 2017 #31
Locking... DonViejo Mar 2017 #32
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