Pentagon Debunks Reports on Osama-Saddam Ties

[durutti]

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/editorandpublisher/headlines/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=2030480

Several newspapers and other media outlets had egg on their face Monday after reporting or endorsing a Weekly Standard story revealing new evidence of an "operational relationship" between Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden.

Several outlets, including the New York Post, The Washington Times and FOX News, ran with the story. There was just one problem: On Saturday, the Pentagon issued a press release stating that "news reports that the Defense Department recently confirmed new information with respect to contacts between al-Qaida and Iraq ... are inaccurate."

Despite this, the New York Post on Monday titled its editorial on the subject: "Bush Was Right."

[bif]

1. And once people see a headline like that

"Bush was right," they'll believe it for a long, long time. And you know the retraction will be on page 48, buried in the middle of the box scores.

[markus]

2. Hell, nobodies read E&P but newspaper guys

and they either know what's going on and are OK with it, or are afraid to do anything about it in their corporatized world.

When this this going and PI of the LA/NYT and WP?

[xultar]

3. tee hee hee so the story planted by the * administration got blasted

by rummy and the gang. HOW funny, so let me see shrub plants a story their lil worker beez run with it and rummy rats them out.

i couldn't have scripted it better myself!

[wysimdnwyg]

4. Let's see...

NYP, WT and FNC. Yep all owned by right-wing loonies. Coincidence?

[lefty_mcduff]

5. Wow. The whores caught red-handed.

Another RW mag has Case Closed! on it's cover - the retraction will not be on the cover, thass for dure.

[Dover]

6. Did the Pentagon set them up in order to knock them down?

Wouldn't be surprised...

It also gives the Pentagon a chance to officially say there was no link and make the whole connection seem like it was the press that caused that little "misunderstanding" with the public.

[fshrink]

7. As another combattant of the Spanish civil war

said (G. Orwell), Big Brother is always right

[JNelson6563]

8. Thanks for posting

I sent this to my local paper.

Julie

[Mountainman]

9. Right wingers and memos

There sure are a lot of stories about memos in the wing nut press lateley. I tend to not believe them since they all appear in a reletively short period of time and with the same MO.

[gratuitous]

10. William Safliar cites the Feith memo today

And claims that it "proves" that all the other intelligence denying a link between Al Qaeda and Saddam was dead wrong.

The only thing "wrong" is the Feith memo. The only "dead" are American service men and women by the hundreds, and Iraqi civilians by the thousands. Nice job, Mr. Safliar. Will we see a "mea culpa" that he prescribes for everyone else in a future column of his? I for one will not hold my breath.

[arcane1]

11. Scaife, Moon, and Murdoch run with it

imagine that :eyes:


"while Reichstag burns, see the public buy it"