Scotty McClellan made a big splash this week by saying that Bush/Cheney and company lied us into the mistaken Iraq war; and that the media were complicit in supporting both the lies and the war. As you might expect, the Bush people and the media people are both screaming like scalded cats that it's not true.
But one news organization, Knight-Ridder (purchased by McClatchy) did cover the story, ask the questions, and publish the answers. Now McClatchy correspondents Jonathan S. Landay (national security and intelligence), Warren P. Strobel (foreign affairs and the State Department), and Nancy Youssef (Pentagon) lay out what their news organization wrote piece by piece and ask the real question the media does not want asked; "Hey, guys, we were there! Where were you? Kissing Bush/Cheney ass?"
Go read it; then click through to the links and read those as well. It was all there when the pubic and Congress needed to know it. The questions were asked at the time, the answers published at the time, and the right-wing noise machine and timid or bought-off major press organizations simply ignored it. Just like they are currently doing with John McCain, and just as they are trying to do with Scotty McClellan's accusations. The media has failed.
But they'll come roaring back, angry that their honor has been questioned, and begin investigating even clear lies, just as they did with the Whitewater "investigations" of Bill and Hillary Clinton long after it was clear to everyone that there was no "there" there. Why not? They have Democrats to pillory now, and that's what the media love to do.Roll over fro Republicans and pillory Democrats.
And when they are called on it, they'll ignore the complaints or bluster "We did our job!" just as Charlie Gibson, Tom Brokaw and Tim Russert did the other day when they went on TV to respond to McClellan's attack on their failures.
The news media - especially the fake TV "news" - is badly broken and they really like it that way.
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