The Rising Tide

Last week on the NARN broadcast, we spent the whole first hour upbraiding the NYTimes and the Strib for their - there is no other word - fraudulent coverage of the 9/11 commission report.

We're not alone.

Patterico from "Oh, That Liberal Media"

tackles the LA Times - whose editorial seems pretty much identical to that of the NYTimes.

One of a cash drawer full of money quotes:

Here's Commission Lehman on "Meet the Press": The Clinton administration portrayed the relationship between al- Qaeda and Saddam's intelligence services as one of cooperating in weapons development. There's abundant evidence of that. In fact, as you'll soon hear from Joe Klein, President Clinton justified his strike on the Sudan "pharmaceutical" site because it was thought to be manufacturing VX gas with the help of the Iraqi intelligence service. Since then, that's been validated. There has been traces of Empta that comes straight from Iraq, and this confounds the Republicans, who accused Clinton of doing it for political purposes. But it confirms the cooperative relationship, which were the words of the Clinton administration, between al-Qaeda and Iraqi intelligence.

Here's the L.A. Times quote again: "Commission members Sunday repeated that they did not see evidence of collaboration between Al Qaeda and Iraq."

Not one word of what I just quoted you appears in the L.A. Times story. Instead, the exact opposite is reported. Black is white. Up is down. It's a flat-out lie, and the transcript proves it.

How stupid does the L.A. Times think we are?

Answer; as stupid as the Strib thinks you are.

I'm looking at last week's headline, in 80-point type: "No Iraq Ties to Al-Quaida Found".

Wow. Seems pretty definite and yet...

Posted by Mitch at June 22, 2004 07:18 AM