Who needs Dana Perino when you have the NYT's Michael Gordon?

[maddezmom]

Who needs Dana Perino when you have the NYT's Michael Gordon?
On Meet the Press yesterday during an interview with Barack Obama, Tim Russert said:

The administration, we have reported at NBC, are drawing up some plans for potential airstrikes in Iran at different missile weapons factories or special force compounds because we have indications, evidence that the Iranians are helping some of their supporters within Iraq to kill U.S. troops.
It's unclear whether the "we" in Russert's statement ("we have indications, evidence") refers to the U.S. Government or NBC News, though that distinction is essentially nonexistent. Russert didn't bother to describe this purported "evidence" leading to our planning air strikes against Iran, but he did then ask Obama: "If it could be demonstrated that was a fact, would you be in support of such limited attacks in Iran?"

Like clockwork, the administration's most stalwart surge supporter/journalist -- the New York Times' Michael Gordon -- has a lengthy article today bolstering the administration's war-justifying accusations against Iran. It claims in the lead sentence that "militants from the Lebanese group Hezbollah have been training Iraqi militia fighters at a camp near Tehran," and that "the training, the Americans say, is carried out at several camps near Tehran that are overseen by the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Command, and the instruction is carried out by militants from Hezbollah, which has long been supported by the Quds Force."

more:http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/05/05/gordon/index.html?source=rss&aim=/opinion/greenwald

[burythehatchet]

1. certainly not coincidentally, CNN has added to its propogandist stable by

signing up Fran Townsend, just weeks after hiring Tony Snow. Oh yes, we're in third gear.

[kevinmc]

2. Michael Gordon and Cheney worked this BS on the Iraq Mushroom Cloud scenario...

him and Judy Miller's WMD's .... a echo chamber for Bush's White House.