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to: Gary Britt
from: Robert G Lewis
date: 2005-11-03 19:30:36
subject: Re: Judy Miller - In cahoots with Bush?

From: "Robert G Lewis" 

Thanks Gary

I really needed the laugh

Bob Lewis

"Gary Britt"  wrote in message
news:436ab87d$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> So Joe Wilson lying about his mission, who sent him, what he found out,
> all
> for 15 minutes of infamy isn't media manipulation, but attempting to get
> the
> truth out that's manipulation to you.   Riiigggghhhhttttt.
>
> Joe Wilson is a liar and self aggrandizing idiot who was part of a rogue
> CIA
> plot to perpetrate a bloodless coup, he should be imprisoned along with
> his
> traitorous wife and a few of her superiors.
>
> Millions of people are writing their senators demanding a
> senatorial/criminal investigation into Wilson, Plame, and parts of the
> CIA.
> They need to be hauled in, put under oath, and scrutinized against every
> statement they have ever made in and outside of the CIA, under oath
> statements of all they claimed to speak to for the past 2 years related to
> their possible crimes.  I just hope their memories are perfect, and they
> don't forget something and get indicted.
>
> Gary
>
> "John Cuccia"  wrote in message
> news:1bblm19necc3egimr5smkag2jokakbj0e4{at}4ax.com...
>> It isn't irony, it is a concerted effort on the part of the Bush
>> administration to manipulate and use the same media the excoriate as
>> "liberal" on a daily basis.
>>
>> Some time back there was a discussion in which I claimed (and still
>> do) that today's Republican Party controlled the political debate in
>> this country.  This type of media manipulation is exactly what I
>> meant.   In this case the Bush Administration used the media (in
>> concert with perjury and obstruction of justice) to maintain their
>> electoral popularity until after the Boy Wonder was re-elected.
>>
>> Since then the veil has been lifted , which is why Bush has lost the
>> support of moderates, independents,and crossover Democrats, and is
>> left with the 30-something percent of the population that are
>> yellow-dog-type Republicans.
>>
>> Bush's re-election was the direct result of criminal actions
>> perpetrated by his lieutenants.
>>
>> On Thu, 03 Nov 2005 15:19:56 -0500, Robert Comer
>>  wrote:
>>
>> >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
>> >> leade
> rs
>> >> 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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