Wow, I'm beginning to wonder if the Seattle Post-Intelligencer will join its inbred sibling, the Seattle Times, in endorsing George W. Bush next fall.
P-I columnist Robert Jamieson really dumped on "Baghdad Jim" McDermott in "McDuhmott's comments were way off-base"
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/153307_watered.html Jamieson blasted McDermott for shooting from the hip without the benefit of facts - a charge that might be partially true. But then Jamieson turns around and writes this crap:
"McDermott said something stupid -- something debunked by the facts as we know them.
"In nabbing Saddam, U.S. military leaders had to overcome Iraqi tradition that values tribal loyalties above all else; a fellow Iraqi had to narc on the ex-dictator. That takes time -- not, as Baghdad Jim suggests, political timing."
OK, I'll bite - what are the "facts as we know them"? Was Jamieson in Iraq to witness Saddam Hussein's capture, or is he accepting the word of George W. Bush as (giggle) "facts"?
One has to wonder if McDermott was even the Seattle P-I's primary target. Jamieson closes with this smelly thought:
"These days McDermott isn't alone in his embarrassing shows of intellectual flatulence.
"Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean not long ago asserted that Bush might have had advance warning of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Dean's words -- unsubstantiated, inflammatory and hurtful -- are unbecoming of a man who would be president."
Sheez, why mince words? Robert Jamieson is just another giant media fart brought to you by the originator of "yellow journalism," the Hearst empire.