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Now that a cease fire has been negotiated, I just discovered the tabloids did a
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better job of covering events than most media sources
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If it’s Saturday, it’ll be news
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Not sure what to make of this one but
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sounds like W’s August 6 “historical” memo
This kind of story
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is tight up their alley
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I noticed that the art of “journalism” is reduced to finding synonyms for “lying”.
Behold the LA Times headline on Obama lying about withdrawing from Afghanistan in 2011
OBAMA ALTERING AFGHAN TIMELINE
Sounds like science fiction, time traveling. The subtitle is somewhat less euphemistic
HE’S POISED TO SAY PUBLICLY FOR THE FIRST TIME THAT THE US ROLE WILL LAST YEARS
best parts? “Publicly for the first time” and “US role”
As subtitles go, WaPo has a good one on Pelosi’s election
CURRENT SPEAKER ELECTED MINORITY LEADER OF DEFLATED CAUCUS Read the rest of this entry »
It’s Sunday. I am allowed to doze off and get startled awake yet again.
This comes from a tweet by David Axes of Evil Frum
From Bush's memoirs : how we almost lost the Iraq war, Cheney edition. http://bit.ly/bLnEhV—
(@davidfrum) November 14, 2010
and it’s a little teaser from the promising revisionism W is trying so hard to sell
The short tidbit at the link gives us the “scoop” about W almost rebelling against Cheney by replacing Rumsfield. Obviously Unca Dick set him straight.
The conclusion that this would have “lost” the war in Iraq belongs to Frum.
My tweet to him:
What did we win?
And the fun doesn’t stop here! The enterprising Frum who has been fired by W for bragging about putting words in his mouth, finds more news in his book: not only didn’t W stand up to Cheney, but apparently he didn’t really rebelled against Poppy either by going to war.
Privately, Poppy gave his blessing
Yes, there IS news in the Bush memoirs: http://bit.ly/bLKGK9 Bush 41 wrote to Bush 43 to endorse Iraq war.—
(@davidfrum) November 14, 2010
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