(June 22, 2014 at 12:19 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Episode #43
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Quote:Rand Paul: Republicans ‘unfairly tarred’ as trying to suppress minority voters
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In a related story, Liberals are also beings such meanies over the whole Iraq War thing. The poor neo-cons are being discredited over making one little mistake. Yeah, like liberals are never wrong about anything. They just can't get over a little war that went bad. In Monte Python fashion, let's not bicker and argue over who lied who in a war.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ju...-war-wrong
Quote:Fox News contributor Judith Miller, whose reporting on Iraq's weapons of mass turned out to be stunningly wrong, said Friday that the media has been too hard on other individuals whose pre-war pronouncements also turned out to be stunningly wrong.
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"What the media should be doing is encouraging everyone who has a view of what to do now in Iraq to come forward and discuss it rationally," Miller said. "But they're doing the opposite. They're trying to shut down people like Dick Cheney, Liz Cheney, all of the 'neoconservatives' who brought us this war. It's not helpful."
Judith Miller was one of the enablers of said neo-cons.
Quote:In its mea culpa after the fact, the New York Times said much of Miller's reporting for the newspaper on Iraq's weapons in 2001, 2002 and 2003 was based on erroneous information from Ahmad Chalabi
I'm hearing this quite a bit lately. As the public has pushed back against the corporate media for primarily focusing on the opinions of the neo-cons of what we should now do about the mess they created, conservatives are trying to spin it as persecution. Perhaps the public is fed up with the Sunday shows featuring Kabuki theater between always-wrong-neo-cons on the right and milquetoast-center-left wussbags like Harold Ford.
Talking points seem to focus on:
"The Iraq War was one little mistake"
No, we were lied into a war that turned into the greatest foreign policy debacle since Vietnam. These people are not just inept and ignorant. They are war criminals.
"Liberals make mistakes too, so BOTH SIDES"
I'll keep posting that the "both sides do it" is always the last line of defense for conservatives that our media loves to supply. The method is to either invent imaginary liberals, find fringey some-guy-with-a-blog liberals to compare to prominent conservatives, or make false comparisons (i.e. "Sure Glenn Beck is crazy but look how angry Keith Olbermann is, so both sides"). Over-estimating the casualties to the first Gulf War is not analogous to the lies that sold us on the second.
"Are we going to exclude liberals too?"
We already do. Liberals are rarely if ever welcomed on the Sunday Shows. The closest we have is wussbag-Alan-Colmbs-style-faux-liberals like Harold Ford who refrain from making forceful arguments and are willing to parrot the "both sides" corporate line.
"Making one mistake shouldn't discredit you from future discussions."
It does for liberals. Dan Rather runs a report that turns out to have a faulty source and he's fired. Lara Logan runs a report based purely on the bs of an unvetted source and she goes to the penalty box long enough for the controversy to die down and is welcomed back on the air. If you're a liberal who somehow finds a way onto our corporate controlled media (which seldom happens anyway), your career hangs by a thread. One mistake, and you're gone for good. If you're a conservative, there are no standards and no accountability. At worst, you'll go to the time-out box and then be back on the air.
