> Does anyone on this list have any opinion of the
> testimony of David Kay, the UN nuclear weapons inspector
> whose been making the rounds on t.v. these past few
> days? (He strikes me as little more than a propagandist
> for the Bush administration.) As it happens, he's taking
> questions on C-SPAN's Washington Journal right now.
Speaking of smear campaigns (and in light of the Bill Moyers thread), a program that started here about the same time as "NOW", "Wideangle", is doing a very heavyhanded hatchet job on Slobo tonight. I am not a Slobo fan, but they are so heavy handed in this show, it's like watching ChinaTV. Of the few episodes I've seen before (including one that had Stiglitz as a commentator), it's uneven and sometimes good. But this one is awful.
(Oh, and Jamie Rubin is usually the post episode interviewer for whatever expert they have on. I wonder what Mad HalfBright's spokescritter's commentary will be like ...)
And below I've included a record of the recent slander Ritter has been enduring that a friend on another list posted there.
-- no Onan
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Excerpt:
First CNN had on its own news chief, Eason Jordan, who had just returned from Baghdad where he was bagging the rights to cover the war. (Imagine the ratings!) He dismissed Ritter with a "Well, Scott Ritter's chameleon-like behaviour has really bewildered a lot of people..." and a "Well, U.S. officials no longer give Scott Ritter much credibility..."
The network followed up with more interviews vilifying Ritter, neither of which cut to the heart of the matter: Why declare war? On what grounds? At what cost? Ritter was characterized as "misguided," "disloyal" and "an apologist for and a defender of Saddam Hussein."
By Monday, professional hairdo Paula Zahn told viewers Ritter had "drunk Saddam Hussein's Kool-Aid."
Over on MSNBC, Curtis & Kuby co-host Curtis Sliwa compared him to "a sock puppet" who "oughta turn in his passport for an Iraqi one." But the nadir came later on CNN when makeup job Kyra Phillips interrogated him, implying that he was being paid by Iraq ^×and all but calling him a quisling.
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