Washington Post blows it
In a page 1 news story, Washington Post reporter Anne Kornblut accuses Sarah Palin of asserting “that the Iraqi government under Saddam Hussein helped al-Qaeda plan the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.”
Just one problem: Palin said no such thing. She simply said that Iraq-bound U.S. troops would “defend the innocent from the enemies who planned and carried out and rejoiced in the death of thousands of Americans.”
As McCain Campaign blogger Michael Goldfarb notes, “It seems we are to assume that this group [al Qaeda in Iraq], despite sharing a name and leadership with the group responsible for the 9/11 attacks, has nothing at all to do with those who ‘planned and carried out and rejoiced in the death of thousands of Americans.’”
Video of Palin’s speech here.
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Since they think tying 9/11 and Iraq together is headline news now, perhaps the Washington Post can next publish a front-page story slamming our troops for making a connection between 9/11 and fighting in Iraq. Let me reprint one of the excerpts I posted in my main 9/11 anniversary post yesterday:
Sgt. Desion Fulks watched the World Trade Center towers come down on television from Fort Rucker, Ala. He re-enlisted three weeks later.
Capt. Joseph Mason, a reservist at the time, immediately volunteered for combat duty after watching what happened in New York and Washington, D.C. He deployed to Iraq two years later with the first wave a troops.
“I was sitting at home, looking at the television, seeing the carnage of the Pentagon and the Trade towers, and I felt I had to do something,” he said.
Both men, and about 5,000 other soldiers with the 3rd Brigade Combat Team of the 1st Cavalry Division from Fort Hood, Texas begin training at Fort Irwin on Thursday, the seven-year anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and one other commercial jet. Many of the soldiers, who will deploy to Iraq at the end of December, said the images of Sept. 11, 2001 still flash through their minds.
“I will never forget what happened on 9/11,” said Sgt. 1st Class Mark Linares. “It’s been so long since 9/11, but it is still in my mind like it was yesterday.”Linares, who was with the 82nd Airborne Division when the attacks occurred and knew he would be one of the first soldiers on the ground where ever they had to go. Some soldiers in the 82nd Airborne were in Afghanistan the next month. Capt. Jennifer Bowersox was part of a unit that went to Kuwait when the ground war in Iraq began in 2003. She said then soldiers talked about Sept. 11 as their reason, and they still talk about it today.
“It must be on every soldier’s mind. It’s certainly on mine,” she said. “You’re wearing the American flag on your sleeve. You’re thinking this happened in my nation, and we can never allow it to happen in the United States again.”
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Are there any standards that journalists follow? Any professional code? I’m at a loss for this one.
Should we just stop calling them journalists and start calling them propagandists?
It seems they’re more concerned about getting democrats elected than they are about reporting news accurately.
Their standards and professional code is to elect the most liberal candidate.
Period.
MSNBC still repeating the smear. Gov Tim Kaine also repeating the smear. McCain camp needs to expose them. Point out that the dems/MSM don’t even know who we are fighting. Say they must think sadamm is still alive, that they must have missed the last 3 years of fighting. not ready to lead
This is the perfect talking point for McCain. It brings forgein policy onto the stage.
The surge is working. The Sarah surge, nothing they do will sway it, just like the surge in Iraq.
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Image: asshat media still whining, lookin for dirt and makin up lies. pathetic.
The MSM has only one goal – to elect Obama. It doesn’t matter what they say or who they misquote.
Can you say, “Retraction?”
I’ve seen a lot of interviews of Palin on youtube as part of a research thing and she does not come across like thar normally. It was only a matter of time before MSM distorted things.
The McCain gamble is forcing the MSM to ante up and now the MSM is wearing its death mask.
The surge is working. The Sarah surge. Just like the one in Iraq did and nothing will sway it.
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Image: dirtbag media making the rounds makin up lies. pathetic.
You got that right. Check out the latest Gallup poll on congressional races.
Actually, Saddam Hussein had a working relationship with al queda that goes back to the mid-1990s, well before 9/11. A number of sources, one of which was the then President of Czechoslovakia reported a clandestine meeting between al queda and Hussein Intelligence just prior to the 9/11 attacks. There is a memo in which Saddam Hussein put out a request for pilots to volunteer to commit suicide attacks on US interests around the world. This memo was 6 months before 9/11.
Of course, the media conveniently ignored most of this, but it really isn’t particularly hard to find. Check out http://iraqdocs.blogspot.com/ for translations of capture Iraqi documents – quite revealing.
I loved how she kept calling him “Charlie” with a tone that sounded very much like a Mom correcting her rebellious son.
And they wonder why they’re going downhill like a runaway train.
So she “simply” said that US troops are fighting the people responsible for 9/11 in Iraq…. How could anyone possibly think she is suggesting that Iraq had something to do with 9/11? I mean..baffling.. really…
sausage
I know you aren’t that stupid.
The Clinton administration’s 1998 indictment against bin Laden and whatshisname(?) Attef for the two African embassy bombings clearly stated that they ALSO had an agreement to support Iraq’s interests and work with Iraq on weapons development. I’ve NEVER heard a SINGLE MSM reporter ask Clinton about the al Qaida / Iraq connection mentioned in that indictment. What did Clinton know and when did he know it?
When your willing to assume that Obama is qualified for President after all those years of doing nothing and voting present, I suppose your silly enough to buy into anything…
Most of the middle-east “rejoiced” at the death of thousands of Americans. The Paleoswinians, The Egyptians, The Syrians, The Jordians, The Saudis, the Pakistanis, the Afganis, and of course the Persians as well.
It’s a mighty big brush to just limit it down to “JUST” Osama and Co…
unseen, you don’t know the snausage.
For all the “blows it” that’s going all, you’d think that someone was in the path of Hurricane Ike or something…
The American public seem to be… polled in 2005:
# 47 percent believe that Saddam Hussein helped plan and support the hijackers who attacked the U.S. on September 11, 2001 (up six percentage points from November).
# 44 percent actually believe that several of the hijackers who attacked the U.S. on September 11 were Iraqis (up significantly from 37% in November).
Is it possible the media believes its’ own words? Really. Could they have such a deep mindset that their brains can’t hear the actual words Palin is saying? Have they predetermined the article before they have written it? If I produced an advertising programs with those distortions, I’d be in court the next day.
SHEEEEEEESH
Charlie, if you don’t play nice I will have to take away your microphone for a month.
Yes. Used to be one of those – you know – old, thick, dusty things written by dead white guys.
Now it seems it’s “Rules for Radicals” by Saul Alinsky (also a dead white guy but, hey, he’s one of their guys…).
‘Yes’ to all your questions.
On September 12th, 2008 at 8:27 am, sausage said:
Yes, sausage and his fellow collectivists are so much smarter than the American public.
We should surrender all of our freedoms (property rights, free speech, etc.) to them so that they can save us from ourselves.
Save us, sausage! Save us!
sausage #18. What that proves is the American public is mis-informed/un-interested. (I can’t really decide which is “higher.)
We could go on and on about the root causes of this ignorance.
What scares me is that I am aware that most people are pretty stupid and that all of us are stupid in some ways… therefore I am stupid too. It all gets very confusing…
Gee, I played hockey, got ejected from a few games myself…had a temper problem, thought I was a bada$$…but then I met 2 guys in camo with round brown hats on a steamy hot day in Kentucky and man, did they fix THAT problem in record time….Track will do fine I am sure. In my opinion, what makes a good soldier is that aggressive, fighting spirit. It just needs tuned and pointed in the right direction.
There hasn’t been this much digging in Alaska since the Gold Rush …
The Dems and all their puppets in the MSM are in a total state of panic …
The more they keep demeaning Sarah Palin the more people are finally able to see the long denied truth about the liberal hypocrisy that espouses women’s rights, social equality, and more only applies if you agree with their view and there is no acceptance of variance in that view …
You know what’s stupid is a f’in guy who names herself sausage.
People that can not see the connection between giving someone’s family $25.000 to blow themselves up and people flying airplanes into buildings are stupid. Both worked activly to destroy us and Isreal. Wether Sadamm had connections to the ones that crashed into the towers is immaterial. The fact that Sadamm was part of the entire industry of terroism is documented.
That being said anyone thinking that Sadam is not dead, that the iraq war is still fighting Iraqis and are not fighting terrorist that are directly part of the grpoup that killed 3,000 of us 7 years ago is also stupid.
The war against Sadam is 4 year old. We won they lost. the war against terrorism is going strong inIraq and in Afganistian and elsewhere around the globe. If the dems can not see that they do not deserve to have power in this country.
And a hefty number of them on your side of the political spectrum think the US Government or Bush in particular did it. Also a majority of Americans believe in ghosts, UFOs and a bunch of other stuff that violate the known laws of physics. What’s your point?
Getting back to how they distorted Palin’s words let me explain it to you, since (unlike unseen) I have no faith that you aren’t that stupid.
We have troops at war in Iraq, not troops at war with Iraq. Saddam’s government ceased to exist 5 years ago and the man himself has been feeding worms for while now. Our troops in Iraq are fighting Al Qaeda, the organization that “planned, executed and rejoiced in” the 9/11 attacks. So what Palin said is indisputably accurate.
If people like you and the Washington Post want to willfully misunderstand or distort her words it reflects poorly on you, not Governor Palin.
In product advertising, the item being promoted must live up to the claims. If it doesn’t you have the legal right to get your money back. A newspaper is a product and subscribers are entitled to get a refund. It’s called “truth in advertising laws” Why should the print media be exempt?
Politicians are a product also. Can we get our money back. /sarc
I hear Obama is a sausage eater.
Experts say that the name is the only connection between “al Qaeda in Iraq” and the Bin Laden organization in Pakistand and Afghanistan. They also say that “al Qaeda in Iraq” is responsible for only a small part of the violence in Iraq. If Palin actually knew much about Iraq (”eyerack”), she could have said that US troops were fighting the Mahdi army or the Badr Corps (oops! that last militia is run by the Prime Minister, not the enemy!).
Real issue: Palin is not ready for prime time. She didn’t know the “Bush doctrine”, which has been for the past six years the organizing principle of US foreign policy. She’s spoiling to drag the US into a war with Russia over Georgia.
The Constitution. No one wants to file a lawsuit for slander/libel/defamation because the press will just shove the 1st Amendment at them and a liberal judge will agree.
Any link, and I do mean any link they make between the Bush Administration and McCain/Palin is good link, in their minds. They don’t understand that most Americans appreciate the fact that we haven’t had another terror attack on US soil for seven years. And that most of us credit President Bush for that. It’s a tired meme but when have the lefties ever abandoned a failed strategy.
as someone that has been over there if john isn’t calling the plays i would hope it was Sarah
And you think Obama is??? lgm, Palin is running for Vice President. Obama is running for President. He’s spending all his time attacking her instead of McCain. Why is that? Obama knows he can’t hold a candle to McCain (well, really Palin too), so he’s trying to tear down Palin. And the polls are showing that he’s failing at it.
What I would love to see is a lawsuit for defimation, slander and libel agaisnt the media. Put the media on trail and use their own words against them once and for all. Show their bias for what it is. Here is the definition form expertlaw.com:
Proof of the success at teaching critical thinking skills in public schools these days with a ‘computer on every desk’. /sarc
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Image: trolls still whining ove Obama’s tumble. sour grapes are tastin sweet on my end… lol
The advantage of the media’s rampant dishonesty on Palin is that when she finally does make a real gaffe, the impact will be diminished because of their lost credibility.
lgm said: Experts say
NO LGM FAMILYMAN IS THE EXPERT
No.. she’s suggesting that Russia wouldn’t DARE have done what it did with the full weight of NATO on Georgia’s side. That’s the whole point of NATO’s existence – defeat the Bear. And Bear yet lives in Putin’s KGB eyes.
check out lgm’s “expert” (juan cole) and you’ll find that he is another University elitist that is on the side of the those who deny that AQ was ever a threat in Iraq …
Guess they never talk to the survivors who have lost thousands of innocent relatives and friends in all the car bombings, suicide bombings, beheadings, kidnappings, and outright murders AQ has carried out in the name of jihad, etc. …
My oldest daughter teaches at a university. Her biggest problem with incoming freshmen is the lack of critical thinking.
Amazing that the MSM heavily supports an ideology that will censor them and heavily regulate them, once they have total power. Like Hollywood, they think they will be exempt. Not hardly! They will be one of the first targeted. You can see the beginnings now, in the so-called “fairness doctrine”. Control of the press is a priority for a marxist/socialist government. Say anything critical and you will see some people at your front door. It has happened before, starting back in the 1790s with the Sedition Act, and a liberal court/congress will support new acts.
I would go to my grave happy.
lgm is citing Juan Cole for authority? Cheese Louise, that’s like citing Ted Stevens as an authority on ethics in government.
Why should I believe anything you say as a Jew who favors Muslims over Christians? As usual you make a specious argument.
It doesn’t even matter to you if that’s true, does it?
Look, if a videotape surfaced tomorrow of Obama forcefully denouncing Bill Ayers back before he ran for President I’d stop and say “well, I disagree with his policies but at least he’s not friends with a terrorist”. See, I’d have to say that because to deny observable reality makes one an idiot.
But the Left in general (and you in particular) are so completely unhinged by this woman that you’re willing to make up stuff she didn’t say and then comdemn her for saying it.
What’s wrong with you? Honestly, I’d like to know, because some kind of actual mental illness is the only explanation I can think of.
Add to that lack of American History also.
I bet you wet yourself with the “eyerack” comment. Were you wearing lipstick too? (just trying to keep up with your denigration of local accents and pronunciations).
Now put the ENTIRE quote of her’s related to that, and try to make that statement. Hint: it’s about NATO.
From your pals at Wikipedia:
I don’t see how anything she said differed from that.
That’s because whenever a kid shows evidence of critical thinking skills (such as questioning authority), they label him unruly and put him on Ritalin.
All we can do is continue to call our every “journalist” and biased media hack job when they cross the line.
Every time they distort and twist something we have to point it out in a big way and counter with facts.
Add Charlie “Out of Context” Gibson to the list of frauds.
True story, when my son was in seventh grade, he got suspended by a teacher for addressing her as “Ma’am.” Which she said made her feel old.
I ended up homeschooling him.
The Lib media is on a rampage to discredit Sarah Palin and to make her into Sarah Bush.
The Washington Compost is a prime example. So is Paul Krugman over at the times..he’s the Michael Moore of the NYT’s. He’s calling Sarah Palin an “out and out” liar.
Back a liberal into a corner and the crazed, rabid contortions go into over-drive.
Obama wants the White House… the Media wants him in the White House… They’ll do anything… ANYTHING to get get him there.
Unbelievable.
now the WaPo has a story about Cindy McCain’s past addiction to painkillers.
I guess they will not follow it with Barack’s history of snorting nose candy.
I wish I had the money to buy a ranch or compund on a mountain without access to the outside world, sometimes.
Man, their BDS is really, really making them look stupid.
and here’s the NYT Tiem Krugman link for anyone who can stomach it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/12/opinion/12krugman.html
In this day and age, it’s perfectly believable. Sad to say. Way to go on homeschooling, Socky!
There were ups and downs in that interview. There will be more ups and downs as this campaign speeds up. McCain and Palin will do things wrong and Hussein and Biden will do things right. That’s gonna happen. That has happened.
As for this interview, the spin-doctors on both sides are working. How it will come out, I don’t know. All I know is that those who want Mac and Cuda in (or at least, Hussein and Biden out) need to work at it.
I’m headed back to work.
http://www.johnmccain.com
It could also apply to insurgents in Iraq who have killed thousands of americans in iraq.
The October surprise is going to be a beyatch for Odopey.
November 5th he’ll be on suicide watch.
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Guitar, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you for that link. It made my day.
So essentially, it’s the same lie used against the Bush Administration and the usual suspects (sausage and lgm) are gleefully trying to use it on Palin.
How pathetic. One of them even tried to bring up that stupid poll as “proof” even.
No problem, sandyb.
Touché. I guess that’s why the hubby and I are playing on homeschooling or sending our kids to private school.
Well, actually, the school’s ultimatum was put him on drugs, or we’ll stick him in Special Ed. I decided to homsechool him instead.
A fellow I go to church with has a kid in the same school system. (Frederick County Maryland). His son was not allowed to use the word “die” in a science report to refer to the singular of dice. (Because his dimbulb teacher thought it was too violent.) He had to say, “Six-sided random number generator.”
Experts. Who are the experts. Who are they in”they said”? Who are the unnamed experts? Who are the “credible sources”? Who are the “unnamed sources”?
This is todays news speak.
playingplanningI’m not certain of how much more of this I can take. Make it stop!
Watch the video. At 4:40 into the tape, Palin clearly says that soldiers in Iraq are fighting those who “planned and carried out and rejoyced in the deaths of thousands of Americans.”
If this is not a reference to the September 11 attacks, she needs a better speechwriter. Either way, she’s not fit to lead. McCain’s only Presidential level decision so far was to pick Palin. Boy did he pick a dud.
Can we get our tax money back from that teacher?
NJ-Aviator #62
Yes, “i am an expert on everything” Krugman is upset about “pig-lipstickgate”.
I believe that Obama cleared that up on Letterman the other night. He said, “When I gave that speech, Donna Brazile was sitting in the front row right by the podium. Her face was showing through the teleprompter. It just slipped out, I don’t know why.”
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Drugs seem to be the answer for everything these days. You made the right choice there.
In Maryland, it doesn’t suprise me. Look how bad it is in Montgomery county.
Good for you, 30. I’m sure you and Mr. 30 can do a heck of a better job than any public school could. That goes for you too, Socky and Mrs. Socky.
She was speaking of Nato and Article 5 of the Washington Treaty.
This point just shows how ignorant journalist and others are.
Actually, there are quite a few ex-pats living like that stateside, but most have gone outside the U.S. Mexico and Costa Rica seem to be the major destinations because they’re cheap and low-value targets for terrorists.
Now you’re just being willfully dense. It is a reference to 9/11, it is not a reference to Saddam Hussein or his government. Our forces are fighting AQ. AQ carried out the attacks. Therefore, our forces are fighting the people that carried out the attacks.
For the sake of argument, just for a moment, let’s accept your premise that Palin is a dud. That “dud” has got Obama rattled and has thrown him completely off his game. If the the small time mayor of a podunk town can do that to the Lightworker what do you think Putin will do?
Now who’s not ready to lead?
On September 12th, 2008 at 9:31 am, lgm said:Watch the video. At 4:40 into the tape, Palin clearly says that soldiers in Iraq are fighting those who “planned and carried out and rejoyced in the deaths of thousands of Americans.”
If this is not a reference to the September 11 attacks, she needs a better speechwriter. Either way, she’s not fit to lead. McCain’s only Presidential level decision so far was to pick Palin. Boy did he pick a dud.
lgm is still in a state of denial about al-queda being in Iraq and our guys beating the snot out of them. Notice he doesn’t want to address how his presidential candidate would rather sit down and break bread with terrorists rather than kill them. So, he attacks the vice presidential candidate on the other side. Pretty weak.
Whoops.
On September 12th, 2008 at 9:31 am, lgm said:
Watch the video. At 4:40 into the tape, Palin clearly says that soldiers in Iraq are fighting those who “planned and carried out and rejoyced in the deaths of thousands of Americans.”
If this is not a reference to the September 11 attacks, she needs a better speechwriter. Either way, she’s not fit to lead. McCain’s only Presidential level decision so far was to pick Palin. Boy did he pick a dud.
Lgm
READ AND GROW UP
Six Rules of Critical Thinking
1. Is it falsifiable?
For any explanation to be considered science, it must be falsifiable. It must be possible to obtain some evidence that would falsify the claim. This is what makes science science, and why most significantly evidence matters.
2. Is it logical?
All conclusions or predictions drawn from an explanation must logically follow. This is important because explanations are tested by evaluating such predictions.
3. Is it comprehensive?
Does the explanation account for all of the available evidence? If not, then how can it possibly be true? This means you cannot pick and choose among the available evidence and select only those items that support your explanation. To be a viable alternative explanation, all the available evidence must be explained.
4. Has everyone been honest?
Anybody offering an explanation has an obligation to weigh all the evidence and reach a rational conclusion. You always must be on guard of self-deception, and you must be willing to abandon any explanation if the evidence contradicts it. Science makes progress when falsified explanations are abandoned and replacing them with new explanations.
5. Is it replicable?
Any evidence offered in support of an explanation must be capable of being obtained independently and confirmed by someone else. If something repeatedly cannot be confirmed independently, then the original evidence becomes suspect, and so does the explanation it supported.
6. Is it sufficient?
Is the evidence offered sufficient to support the truth of the explanation? The belief we place in an explanation must remain proportionate to the amount of credible evidence that has been accumulated in its support. Remember the burden of proof rests on the person putting forth the explanation, and the more extraordinary the claim, the more solid the evidence required to support it. Further the absence of falsifying evidence is not the same as the presence of evidence that confirms a claim or explanation.
Conclusion
If an explanation or claim passes on all six rules, then you are justified in considering it to be true. Of course, this does not provide a guarantee of truth, but it means you have a good basis for supporting the explanation. If an explanation fails one of the six rules, then it should be rejected or at least treated with great skepticism.
30 pcs – TGIF!!!!
Technically, it’s just Mr. Socky. But thank you.
Wish me luck, if all goes well, I’ll be adopting another foster kid by the end of the year.
I’m not sure what’s going on with my post. The word “demoralize” keeps getting removed. I was saying “if you are going to attempt to demoralize us, you have got to do better.
So true. So very true. I could use a vacation.
lgm said:
lgm is a Jew with deep seated hate for Christians believe nothing he says; if you don’t already.
lgm said:
Heh, because of that woman “who isn’t ready for prime time,” you’re gonna lose the Whitehouse, and now, perhaps even the House!
Boy did he pick a dud…. yes, Obama did. lol. and for that matter the Dems ended up with one also at the top of the ticket..
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Wow! My hat is off to you, sir. I hope that the adoption process is a smooth one.
Congratulations! That’s awesome. The hubby and I plan on doing the same at some point. All the best.
After lgm got off the phone with Juan Cole, he called Dan Rather to ask about journalistic ethics and based on that authority decided the WaPo hit piece was legitimate.
Errah, just another aszhat that cannot report fairly on the news. Turdball host chris mattherws was breathless with a clip or two last night doing the same thing by trying to twist her words. I thought all her responses while measured took a logical stance and she had a good grasp of the issues. CNN had similar reportage by that hack Campbell Brown with the lovely and easy on the eyes Candy Crowley and some liberal hyperventilating stooge gary colman impersonator. If the WaPo tested all their writters on their reading and comprehension skills they might be able to empty out a few desks. I consider this the last twitches of the ole dinosaur’s carcass errah.