Lies and the Lying Media That Tell Them

The old media is in full smear mode today, primping and preening on their self-serving gotcha performance last night.

Evan Thomas, of Newsweek, epitomizes the media elite's disdain for Bush this morning on Imus during a give & take about Iraq and the June transition.

Thomas sneered "I doubt Bush even knows who Chalabi is".

::::Clank!::::Shreech!:::: Let's back the truck up Mr. Thomas.

While Thomas has previously remarked on the Imus show that he often doesn't read the print version, which is a rather stunning admission by the Assistant Managing Editor of Newsweek, but not surprising given Newsweek's quality level, he may have missed Newsweek's coverage of the story, but I would bet the farm that he reads the WaPo:

Bush Pays Surprise Thanksgiving Visit to Troops in Iraq

The goverrning council members with whom Bush met today were Ahmed Chalabi, head of the Iraqi National Congress, Jalal Talabani, a Kurdish leader who is this month's council president, Mowaffak Rubaie, a Shiite Muslim physician who returned from exile in Britain, and Raja Khozai, a Shiite who directs a maternity hospital in the southern city of Diwaniya.

The Bush-as-idiot or Neocon/Israeli puppet meme drives much of the old media to absurd lengths. So eager are they to damage or belittle Bush that they insult their readership/viewer's intelligence.

Later in the same broadcast, NBC's David Gregory defended his stupid "have you made mistakes?"question by saying it was his job to challenge the President, not to seek information. That he wanted to elicit a reaction, create a "real moment that revealed Bush's thinking".

What twaddle. How can anyone take journalists such as these or their reporting seriously?

Posted by feste at April 14, 2004 01:05 PM | TrackBack