Or so thinks the LA Times:
Last week, the Senate Intelligence Committee issued a 511-page report documenting the catastrophic failure of U.S. intelligence on Iraq. When the U.S. and its allies attacked his regime, Saddam Hussein had no stores of poison gas, biotoxins or covert nuclear program. This week, a British inquiry into prewar intelligence failures reached similar conclusions, though it continued to assert that Britain had "credible" intelligence that Iraq had sought uranium in Niger as recently as 1999. No support was offered.Posted by Justene Adamec at July 19, 2004 02:27 PM | TrackBackTaken together, though, these reports were enough to kindle a fury among the politically minded Internet bloggers, who have become a major presence on the Net's freewheeling fringes. To them, Wilson — who has a flair for self-promotion — is the poster boy for a nearly traitorous opposition to the war.
The bloggers, whose rhetoric gains heat and velocity as it ricochets from one site to another through a chain of self-referential links, basically formulated a two-count indictment: First, Wilson lied by saying he was not recruited for the mission by his wife and about the conclusiveness of what he had found once in Niger. (The former charge is crucial in certain conspiratorial quarters because many neo-conservative bloggers believe the CIA, Plame's employer, was soft on Saddam and against the war.) Second, major newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times, were alleged to be suppressing the story of Wilson's mendacity. In other words, why won't the media tell us the truth?
Oh, bite me, LAT.
Sure, all your critics are looney-right bomb-throwers, just this side of McVeigh, who spend their evenings lecturing their cats on the traitorous media.
Let's count the loaded words:
traitors, rhetoric, heat, ricochets, self-referential, conspritorial, neo-conservative, "soft on Saddam", etc.
I guess they couldn't even manage the no-retraction retraction they mustered over Bremer's good-bye speech.
When cornered, shoot the messenger.
As I said, bite me.
Posted by: Kevin Murphy at July 19, 2004 03:50 PM (Permalink)wait, I thought we were the "sizzle, not the steak"
I can't keep track...
Posted by: Christopher Cross at July 19, 2004 04:37 PM (Permalink)It's cleverly done. Instead of actually attempting to shore up Wilson's credibility with arguments and facts, they simply imply that anyone who calls him a liar is a wingnut.
This is the mainstream media's response to losing its readers (audience, in the case of the networks new organizations). Instead of meeting the challenge head-on, they soothe their readers by offering support for the choice of the mundane: "congratulations. You've chosen us. You're smarter than those people who get their news off the web. They're warmongers. You're nice."
Posted by: Attila Girl at July 19, 2004 04:43 PM (Permalink)please tell me this was an op/ed piece and not something passed off as "news".
gotta love how the author lumps 'bloggers' all together as one homogenous group, LOL.
this article is a great example of liberal bias in the LA times.
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