59 minutes and counting on the scandal clock...NYTrogate
Yeah, yeah, I know what I said yesterday, but this story is BIG. CBS News and the NY Times collaborated to released a blockbuster story 48 hours before the election. ANOTHER BOGUS story.
Hugh Hewitt offers links that demonstrate the MSM and CBS News in particluar, is interfering in the election. How is it that CBS was suckered by another dubious source with an agenda weeks after they were caught in MemoGate??
Time for Dan and Co to say "buh-bye".
N.Z. Bear has an excellent critique and a list of bloggers and Conserative MSM on the story:
More from:
Jim Geraghty at Kerryspot
Captain Ed
Hugh Hewitt
Roger Simon
Belmont Club
PowerLine
JustOneMinute
Michelle Malkin
Proving that the media cycle has become compressed beyond all recognition, Polipundit has already run a poll to name this new media scandal
Uh-oh...Joe Lockhart is going to be dancing as fast as he can today, and Bill Clinton must be wishing he'd stayed in Chappaqua as this stockpile was amassed on his watch. Breaking news from Cliff May:
Sent to me by a source in the government: “The Iraqi explosives story is a fraud. These weapons were not there when US troops went to this site in 2003. The IAEA and its head, the anti-American Mohammed El Baradei, leaked a false letter on this issue to the media to embarrass the Bush administration. The US is trying to deny El Baradei a second term and we have been on his case for missing the Libyan nuclear weapons program and for weakness on the Iranian nuclear weapons program.”
UPDATE: This Daily Herald story from April 2003 is illuminating:
As the military advances closer to Baghdad, signs of Iraqi chemical preparedness are multiplying, although there is still no conclusive evidence Saddam Hussein's regime possesses weapons of mass destruction.On Friday, troops at a training facility in the western Iraqi desert came across a bottle labeled "tabun" - a nerve gas and chemical weapon Iraq is banned from possessing.
Closer to Baghdad, troops at Iraq's largest military industrial complex found nerve agent antidotes, documents describing chemical warfare and a white powder that appeared to be used for explosives.
U.N. weapons inspectors went repeatedly to the vast al Qa Qaa complex - most recently on March 8 - but found nothing during spot visits to some of the 1,100 buildings at the site 25 miles south of Baghdad. [Emphasis added]
Col. John Peabody, engineer brigade commander of the 3rd Infantry Division, said troops found thousands of 2-inch by 5-inch boxes, each containing three vials of white powder, together with documents written in Arabic that dealt with how to engage in chemical warfare.
More proof that the NYTimes and CBS don't know how to use Google.
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