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Author and journalist Charles Kaiser can only handle the media’s complete ineptness for so long before he just has to say something. Apparently his tolerance level is right about four years.
The Observer ran an article by Kaiser called “Rumsfeld Lies, Press Takes a Nap”. Has Charlie Kaiser been under a rock for the past four years? The press has been like Rip Van fucking Winkle.
The proverbial straw was when Hillary Clinton was pressing Rumsfeld for some answers on why his past optimistic forecasts for Iraq have never come to fruition. Rumsfeld insisted that he has never EVER been optimistic on Iraq and his outlook has always been guarded.
Of course this is a bold face lie, one that you would expect the media to latch onto since it would be so easy to prove how full of shit Rumsfeld actually is.
It may be too much to ask these harried reporters to perform three Google searches on deadline. But Senator Clinton had actually anticipated that. After Mr. Rumsfeld spoke, she inserted into the record her own list to prove her point: seven quotes from Mr. Rumsfeld in front of Congressional committees—including “My impression is that the war was highly successful,” and “I do believe we’re on the right track”—and another six from press interviews. These included such memorable lines the following: “I can’t tell you if the use of force in Iraq would last five days, or five weeks, or five months, but it certainly isn’t going to last any longer than that.” And, of course, this one, in response to a question from Jim Lehrer in 2003 asking how American troops would be received in Iraq: “There is no question but that they would be welcomed.”
You got that mainstream media? Charlie Kaiser can only take your complete disreguard for human life for a little more than four years before he takes a stand. Mission accomplished Charlie, mission accomplished.
Rumsfeld Lies, Press Takes a Nap [NY Observer]
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Want a neat little picture by your comments? Get one here.they actually did a clip montage last night of rumsfeld being overly optimistic about iraq. but before that, since rumsfeld actually said “you’d have a dickes of a time” trying to find instances of him being overly optimistic, hey showed a montage of clips of him being overly folksy. if you didn’t catch it last night, watch the repeat. very funny stuff.
Posted Wednesday, August 9, 2006 at 2:19 pm | Permalink
sorry, he said “dickens of a time.”
Posted Wednesday, August 9, 2006 at 2:20 pm | Permalink
Actually, I opposed the war in print before it began, and I have consistently opposed it ever since.
Charles Kaiser
Posted Sunday, August 13, 2006 at 12:34 am | Permalink
Hey Charles, I appreciate you taking the time to make your stance on the war clear.
This wasn’t so much a jab at your position on the war as it was the media’s complete and utter unwillingness to call this administration out at times when they have been blatently caught in lies or half-truths.
It’s like they’re afraid of being branded unpatriotic, when in fact their silence is a slap in the face to true patriotism.
I really enjoy your writing, sorry you were the one that got caught in the “friendly fire” so to speak.
Posted Sunday, August 13, 2006 at 5:10 pm | Permalink
I just found this quote by Cronkite from 1968. Why doesn’t somebody in the media or one of the network news anchors have the balls to say this.
Freshly returned from Vietnam, where the Tet offensive had just ended, Cronkite offered what he called “an analysis that must be speculative, personal, subjective.” “We have too often been disappointed by the optimism of the American leaders, both in Vietnam and Washington, to have faith any longer in the silver linings they find in the darkest clouds,” he said. “To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic yet unsatisfactory conclusion.”
Here we are, almost 40 years later and the news is exactly the same.
Posted Monday, August 14, 2006 at 8:14 am | Permalink
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