DemocraticUnderground makes it in AFP story

[grizmaster]

So who is our mystery DU blogger mentioned in the last paragraph?

It appears the MSM has been poking it's head in here for a peek.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061102/pl_afp/iraqtrialsaddamus_061102150938

Unclear if US Republicans will profit from Saddam trial verdict

Saddam himself addressed the High Tribunal's presiding judge, asking that the verdict not be announced on November 5 because it would reinforce Bush's Republican Party in the elections.

"The propaganda machine will seek to show that Bush has achieved his strategic goal" in Iraq, Saddam said.

On the Internet, in US leftist discussion forums and among some bloggers, there is a strong suspicion that the date was chosen on purpose to benefit the Republicans.

"Given the Bush administration's history of timing national security-related actions to the political calendar, has the date for the verdict's release been set to provide maximum political benefit for the administration and congressional Republicans?" asked a blogger on the DemocraticUnderground.com discussion site.

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. Wave hello, everyone!!!!! Good that they take a peek once in a while -

would be better if they actually did their job and took a bit more from some of the excellent information/postings here.

[grizmaster]

2. wish I could figure out who was quoted

I did a search and it came up dry except for my post

[Buzz Clik]

3. Tip o' the hat to yahoo news/AFP -- the quote is directly from Media Matters

http://mediamatters.org/items/200610260010

It was quoted (sloppily) here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x242933

Nice work by the crack reporting team at AFP.

[IA_Seth]

5. Doh! Ya beat me! n/t

[Buzz Clik]

8. Three of us found it in minutes. What's wrong with AFP?

[grizmaster]

9. even worse

If they got that quote from the post on DU then the mediamatters link was right there in front of them.


Although I suppose someone might have forwarded the quote to the author and he was to cheap to donate to access the search function.

[Buzz Clik]

10. I found the MediaMatters link through Google.

Not cheap. Lazy.

[grizmaster]

12. HA!

:rofl:

[grizmaster]

7. I just sent Katty a message

a star is born

[IA_Seth]

4. Link here...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=103&topic_id=242933

It appears to me that this DU poster was actually just summarizing an article from another website...

Nice reporting! Where do they find these people?

[seafan]

6. Good for DU being noticed. Media Matters asked that question on Oct. 26.

Original text appeared on Media Matters for America,Thursday, Oct 26, 2006 3:45pm EST

Summary: While it cannot definitively be said that the reason the senior Iraqi court in charge of Saddam Hussein's trial postponed its verdict in the case until two days before the November elections so that it would influence the midterms, the postponement suggests several obvious questions, including, most importantly: Given the Bush administration's history of timing national security-related actions to the political calendar, has the date for the verdict's release been set to provide maximum political benefit for the administration and congressional Republicans?

[Buzz Clik]

11. It's cool to be quoted in a national article, but really ....

Who the hell gets their news from asylums like the DU?

[grizmaster]

13. ummm... the inmates?

[katty]

14. good the GP should wakeup, turn off the MSM,checkout DU+others