The “nutters,” they play unfairly. By, like, consulting experts on their own. And questioning the job done by TNR’s “fact checkers”. Which is not their job:
BAE System’s Head of Communications over the division than manufactures the Bradley IFV was never specifically asked to comment on the claims made in “Shock Troops” by TNR’s legion of fact-checkers.
When he saw the claims made in “Shock Troops,” he stated, by citing the physical properties of his company’s vehicle, that it is highly unlikely, if not impossible, for the Bradley story told in “Shock Troops” to have been correct.
Once more, we have to question the accuracy and the integrity of The New Republic’s editors, who ran an investigation apparently designed to provide merely cover instead of facts.
And they would have gotten away with it, too, if it wasn’t for you meddling kids haters.
Need I remind you that every moment the nutters spend on this story is a moment less they’re able to spend on the mess that is Iraq?
Ask yourself, why do they shy away from the real news? Which, granted, they can only get from organizations whose veracity cannot be questioned upon pain of being accused of avoiding the “real news” they should be focusing on — but then, that’s really just nitpicking, isn’t it?
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, for I am the great Oz!!
What EJ Dionne did last night over at Hewitt’s place if it had been done by anyone in the Bush administration would have been termed corruption. http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/01a7d315-b20f-4567-901d-0ef4f07b2e9e
But when a journalist does it it isn’t called anything at all. Why is that, you think? And how much of this is done when we can’t check them? Like with Al Qaeda stringers in Iraq. And don’t even get me started on the free pass Russert and Gregory and Mitchell have gotten in the Libby deal.
Not true at all. I’ve still got plenty of time to debunk fake massacres there, too.
Now that I think about it remember how the media treated the Swift Boat veterans duing the 2004 election? How much of that was straight reporting and how much of it was the stuff that Dionne was spouting at Hewitt (corrupt twaddle). And where did those TANG memos come from and how did CBS get them? You figure that was really looked into extensively? Really?
Have the TNR fact-checkers contacted Brad Thor yet?
And the real news, of course, is the failure of the Surge.
What? Even Durbin says it’s working?
Oh. Um, what I meant to say was that the real news is the failure of the Malaki government. ‘Cause unless Iraq is perfect, the progress doesn’t count.
This has well and truly moved past the publication of fiction as fact. TNR has now been caught engaging in a concerted effort to hide the truth. I can’t wait to find out who the too-coy-by-half ‘fact checker’ turns out to be. Whoever she is I’d strongly encourage her to get out in front of this as soon as possible, before she’s hung out to dry.
This seems like a good way to jump start my career. I will enlist, go to Iraq, and “report” on the war.
Have they changed that “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy yet?
#4 cjburch
Is Mary Mapes working at TNR under an assumed name?
There goes Foer’s shot for a 2007 Münzenberger.
Rick,
That 2007 is a sweet ride, isn’t it? Oh, the prize? Uh, nevermind.
Since you hate-ists have things under control, I think I will go take a nice little 10 day vacation in Alaska. Maybe I’ll flip the bird toward Ted Steven’s house while I am up there…
Well, it may be true that the location of the story about the woman with the melted face was a little off, and it may be true that you can’t really drive a Bradley in the manner discussed (not saying that either of those things are true, only that they may be true, possibly) but none of this takes away from the real heart of this story, which is that this is the most corrupt Administration in history, the Iraq war is going so badly all of our troops will probably be slaughtered before they can retreat out of there (just before the elections no doubt, on a Friday to hid the news, I question the timing etc.), that nobody would care if the insane right wing loonies didn’t obsess over non-stories like this until the story turned into an Orgasmatron 5000, Jerome Armstrong didn’t commit stock manipulation, you can’t prove that, and that this is all a big gay cock porn ball of lies, etc…
/tin hat
There you go. Thought I’d save the usual suspects a bit of time and get there ahead of them.
It’s nuance: You’re supposed to pay attention to the coverage of the mess that is Iraq, but not ask so many questions about it. Just soak up the theme and the vibe of the coverage without focusing on the details, like which country the incidents occurred in..
What’s with this naming sources? don’t you guys realize that anonymous sources asked vague questions are more germaine to the overall narrative? Anonymity gives sources the power to speak their minds and imparts wicked hardcore troothiness! This is new age journalism where the questions are vague and the answers framed.
Get with the program!!
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Spiny,
The question is this, is Mary Mapes the rule rather than the exception?
Hah! You think you have disproven something but the proof is all in the little green notebook. You’ll see, you will.
She’s an exceptional example of the rule.
is Mary Mapes the rule rather than the exception?
Well, if you have enough people doing the same thing, you’re bound to get someone doing it badly.
Foer looks brilliant by comparison, since he hasn’t admitted to receiving photocopies at a county fair…
“Oh. Um, what I meant to say was that the real news is the failure of the Malaki government. ‘Cause unless Iraq is perfect, the progress doesn’t count.”
Unlike say our own Congress which although making no progress on guarding the borders and such, is at least managing to discuss upgrading the House Gym.
After reading the Confederate Yankee summary of recent events, I have to wonder if white liberals actually hit the toilet when they shit. Or any liberals, for that matter.
Early on I was willing to give TNR the benefit of the doubt, and figured young Beauchamp just hoodkinked them. Now, not so much.
Is it just me or does it seem that popular opinion is shifting more to the center? Perhaps Jeff’s efforts at explaining political rhetoric–as well as the vigorous push-back from other articulate and rational souls–is bearing fruit. Now, that would be sweet.
ahem – I do not know if it is shifting center. I do know that these kinds of made up atrocities do not bode well for the Left. People are not naturally inclined to believe these things about our military, especially in times like this. To find out that these types of accusations were made up out of whole cloth, and the publication has shown no good faith effort to have corroborated same prior to publishing simply will not sit well with the average citizen.
One thing I’ve noticed, I can’t find a real-life liberal that has any particular feelings about Alberto Gonzales whatsoever. Bush, sure. Cheney, maybe. Not a lot of angst about the Alberto.
“I have to wonder if white liberals actually hit the toilet when they shit.”
They don’t shit. Their sphincters are clenched in rage as the foulness oozes out of their pores in a sour musk. The chronic constipation does nothing but make them madder, the clench gets tighter…
A sad and viscous cycle.
But it helps them conserve toilet paper, silver linings and all that.
One square is all they need. Maybe Sheryl Crow was onto something !
Is that anything like the horrible red binder?
–jhb
Nine out of ten foot owners agree!
“Mr. Coffey’s response:
I can’t pretend to know what may or may not have happened in Iraq but the impression the writer leaves is that a “driver” can go on joy rides with a 35 ton vehicle at will.”
I was trying to make a point to one of the trolls earlier by comparing a Bradley to a D6 Cat dozer as far as size and manuverability goes, looks like I owe them an apology. The Bradley is actually twice as big as a D6.
They don’t shit. Their sphincters are clenched in rage as the foulness oozes out of their pores in a sour musk. The chronic constipation does nothing but make them madder, the clench gets tighter…
A sad and viscous cycle.
WAY funny. I know a whole bunch of them. Their shit don’t stink but THEY DO…and yet I have to stand there and listen to these folks whine while all I’m trying to do? Give them an estimate on their damned brakes.
I’m not so much a hater? And I am SO sick of being branded as one by these folks. WILL it come down to “We have the guns”? I think not, but I’m not seeing anything else right now.
judi Republican…Well,My names not judi,but ok
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