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Stinky The Clown

(67,799 posts)
Mon Feb 18, 2013, 10:33 PM Feb 2013

The press people being interviewed in Hubris are as guilty as Cheney

Why was the media not yelling at the tops of their lungs?

*Now* they tell us they knew it was all a lie?

We Wuz Had.

By every one of these motherfuckers.

WE knew it was a lie. We knew They knew it was a lie. But the Fourth Estate failed to do their jobs.

Just as they continue to not do.

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madokie

(51,076 posts)
5. And the sad part is they knew that we knew too
Mon Feb 18, 2013, 10:39 PM
Feb 2013

The bush cabal weren't trying very hard to hide the fact that there was no real reason to go into Iraq other than stealing oil and regime change

senseandsensibility

(17,041 posts)
6. The role of the "media" in this needs its own documentary.
Mon Feb 18, 2013, 10:40 PM
Feb 2013

The administration coudn't have done this without them.

yodermon

(6,143 posts)
13. "orwell rolls in his grave"
Tue Feb 19, 2013, 12:06 AM
Feb 2013

2003 documentary, not sure if iraq-war run-up is covered, been some years since I've seen it.

Auntie Bush

(17,528 posts)
9. I was always angry at the media for pushing the war...It meant big bucks and lots of viewers.
Mon Feb 18, 2013, 10:49 PM
Feb 2013

They are almost as responsible as the administration. They never filmed the protests or reported them. The NYT was also guilty! This program is really making me angry all over again. So many lives and dollars lost!

riverwalker

(8,694 posts)
10. remember the 2002 Paula Zahn/ Scott Ritter interview?
Mon Feb 18, 2013, 11:28 PM
Feb 2013
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/US/09/13/ritter.cnna/

she was rolling her eyes, smirking, sneering......oh reaaaallly now Scott, you must be drinking Saddam's KoolAid... He was a voice screaming truth in the wilderness, and all she could do was ridicule him.

ZAHN: To hear Scott Ritter, all of the talk of war with Iraq is groundless. The former U.N. weapons inspector says Iraq poses no threat to the U.S. and military action would be a historic mistake.

Stinky The Clown

(67,799 posts)
11. I *do* remember. I also say it was just one of HUNDREDS of examples
Mon Feb 18, 2013, 11:36 PM
Feb 2013

Not putting your post down in any way. Just that the media was INTENTIONALLY doing what it did.

hay rick

(7,619 posts)
12. At the same time CNN was featuring Richard Butler.
Mon Feb 18, 2013, 11:45 PM
Feb 2013

They kowtowed to the Special Ambassador on a regular basis.

snot

(10,529 posts)
14. Pullitzer-winning Chris Hedges was squeezed out of the NYT
Tue Feb 19, 2013, 01:12 AM
Feb 2013

for daring to express an opinion against the Iraq war.

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