Tell them Rachel

[malaise]

The speed of the attacks against Scotty is itself a story. Is it a warning shot?

[seemslikeadream]

1. jah bless Gregory is having a hissy fit over this

[hlthe2b]

4. Your kangaroo bit reminds me of all my pups around kids....

The doggies would predictably grab the cookie, hamburger, or what have you from the absent-minded, startled child and I could only smile, despite the tears!

[LakeSamish706]

2. My sincere hope is that Scotts book and appearances will draw out...

some other insiders to tell what they know. This could just be the beginning of what might be to come.

[malaise]

3. That's my wish

Gregory just replayed Scotty's comments (when he was Press Secretary)on Clarke's book. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaah that was funny.

Rachel is eating Scotty alive- Marboro Man - :rofl: -says the most damning thing in the book is Bushco's false claim for the war.

[spanone]

5. they DO circle the wagons and get the talking points out there amazingly quick

[malaise]

6. With tasteless haste

By the way, Michelle Bernard is a 100% asshole.

[ErinBerin84]

7. lol

Notice that Gregory is trying to shoot down EVERYTHING Rachel says? He's not doing it with anyone else. He's such a dick.

[Gabi Hayes]

8. I wanna know what he has to say about the scripted press conference in FebMarch 03.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3354055

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/05/04/lapdogs /

New York Times reporter Elisabeth Bumiller, a participant in the conference, later defends the press corps’ “timid behavior,” in Boehlert’s characterization, by saying: “I think we were very deferential because… it’s live, it’s very intense, it’s frightening to stand up there. Think about it, you’re standing up on prime-time live TV asking the president of the United States a question when the country’s about to go to war. There was a very serious, somber tone that evening, and no one wanted to get into an argument with the president at this very serious time.”

Boehlert later writes: “The entire press conference performance was a farce—the staging, the seating, the questions, the order, and the answers. Nothing about it was real or truly informative. It was, nonetheless, unintentionally revealing. Not revealing about the war, Bush’s rationale, or about the bloody, sustained conflict that was about to be unleashed inside Iraq. Reporters helped shed virtually no light on those key issues. Instead, the calculated kabuki press conference, stage-managed by the White House employing the nation’s most elite reporters as high-profile extras, did reveal what viewers needed to know about the mind-set of the on the eve of war.”

[malaise]

9. Don't we all

Gregory sure ran from the word impeachment.

Love your graphic. :hi:

[Gabi Hayes]

10. thank you! that graphic tells you all you need to know about the 'hero'

also, check the link above, cause the last post, I think, I made, has a recent column by Glenn Greenwald that excoriates these ACTORS who play at being journalists:

from Salon...he quotes the late, lamented David Halberstam

Halberstam observed that "by and large, the more famous you are, the less of a journalist you are," and recounted that his proudest moment in his career was when, as a young reporter in Saigon, he stood down a General in Vietnam who was attempting to threaten and intimidate him from independently investigating claims that the Pentagon was making about the war. Halberstam apparently didn't share Gibson's aversion to "debating" government officials.

[malaise]

12. That article is brilliant

Salon has kept me sane for years. I've been reading it long before they had subscriptions. They are one of the new media who have exposed M$M as full time hacks.

I'm saving this for my students. They're not just lapdogs - they're shameless lapdogs. We should send Chris Matthews et al their comments at the time. Apparently they've forgotten what they said then.

Love this excerpt:
A telling and comprehensive media study of the WMD coverage conducted by Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM) and the University of Maryland and released in March 2004 concluded too many press stories simply repeated the "official line" on WMD regarding the Iraq war, and that most journalist accepted the Bush administration's linking of the War on Terror with WMDs, while at the same time failing to note that there was no precedent of terror organizations demonstrating the capacity to use WMDs. Simply put, "The American media did not play the role of checking and balancing the exercise of power that the standard theory of democracy requires," according to CISSM, which monitored WMD coverage between October 2002 and May 2003 from seven U.S. news outlets: Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Washington Post, Newsweek, US News & World Report, as well as NPR's "Morning Edition" and "All Things Considered."

In retrospect, NBC's Brian Williams argued the MSM had no choice but to simply repeat what administration officials were saying about Saddam's alleged WMD arsenal. "We had no independent testing authority," Williams told CNN. "We had to go with the government experts and witnesses , including our own secretary of state before the United Nations." Williams's predecessor Tom Brokaw agreed, insisting, "A lot of what happened during the lead-up to was unknowable." In truth, there was a long list of distinguished military and political experts who were ready and willing -- before the war began -- to illuminate NBC's viewers about the gaping holes in Bush's justification for war and what the colossal hurdles would be post-invasion. NBC anchors, though, were not overly interested in hearing from them and yet years later insisted there was no way to have known the war had been poorly thought out.
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We should ask them how come Salon and DU posters were able to independently test authority.

[Canuckistanian]

11. Ah, yes, the staged, scripted "press conference"

I remember that.

I remember that we were all outraged when Srubbolini got a question "out of order" and remarked on it.