From: Robert Comer 

The irony is deafening. 

- Bob Comer


Rich Gauszka wrote:
> So the MSM did rig the elction?
>
> http://www.latimes.com/news/columnists/la-oe-scheer1nov01,1,3380519.column?ct
rack=1&cset=true
> What Judy forgot: Your right to know
> THE MOST intriguing revelation of Special Prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald's
> news conference last week was his assertion that he would have presented his
> indictment of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby a year ago if not for the
> intransigence of reporters who refused to testify before the grand jury. He
> said that without that delay, "we would have been here in October 2004
> instead of October 2005."
>
> Had that been the case, John Kerry probably would be president of the United
> States today.
>
> .....
>
> INSTEAD OF confronting Libby for trying to mislead reporters, Miller did
> nothing to expose his efforts to smear a former ambassador for raising such
> questions. At the very least, she should have written a story stating that a
> White House official was planting information to disparage a critic of its
> war policy. Miller couldn't do that because she had acceded to Libby's
> demand that his White House connection be concealed in any articles she
> wrote, by identifying him as a "former [Capitol] Hill staffer."
>
> This case was never about protecting government sources who risk their
> careers by telling the truth, but rather about punishing those like Wilson
> who do. That Miller cared far more about protecting someone who abused his
> power as the vice president's chief of staff than about protecting the right
> of Wilson to speak truth to power says volumes about her priorities.
>
> That the New York Times again editorialized last week in defense of its
> knee-jerk support of Miller, even after knowing she deceived her editors, is
> a startling indication that even some of our most respected media leaders
> still are missing the point.
>
> The 1st Amendment protection is not a license for mischief on the part of
> journalists eager to do the government's bidding. To the contrary, it was
> conceived by the founders to prevent government from subverting the free
> press in an effort to misinform the public. Unfortunately, that is precisely
> what occurred here.
>
>

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