[lbo-talk] Galloway to Senate: FOAD

[Carl Remick]

>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>
>Carl Remick wrote:
>
>>And it seems you're not supposed to *repeat* these things if they have 
>>been said.  I have been impressed by the extent to which the US media have 
>>quashed this story -- I've seen minimal coverage on TV and in print.  
>>E.g., check Slate's "summary of what's in the major U.S. newspapers" today 
>>-- not a word about Galloway's Senate testimony:  
>><http://slate.msn.com/id/2119050/>
>
>There's a longish article in the NYT, but Judith Miller, of all people: 
><http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/18/international/middleeast/18food.html>.

But no outlet is highlighting the topic.  You have to use the NYT's 
site-search to find Judith Miller's article, in which I particularly liked 
this graf:

"A flamboyant orator and skilled debater, he [Galloway] also attacked United 
Nations sanctions against Iraq, the program, and, above all, the 
American-led war to topple Mr. Hussein. The administration, he said, had 
based its invasion of Iraq on a "pack of lies" and was now trying to justify 
its actions with charges regarding the oil-for-food program and other 
allegations, which he called "the mother of all smoke screens."

How cucumber-cool can you get!  I think Judith Miller is professionally 
obligated to report her status as a fully vertically integrated news source 
and note that she herself played a lead role in concocting the "pack of 
lies" that Galloway cited.  JM both fabricates the news and delivers it -- a 
paragon of efficiency in today's leaner, meaner press corps.

Carl