I love this.  Now the left is blaming their media lapdogs on the war.   Conservatives knew that if we let the left have control for a while they would eventually falter in their moonbat ideas and begin eating their own.

Isn't it these same people who screamed that Rumsfeld answered exactly whre the WMD would be ? I seem to recall many replayed grillings of Cheney, and the endless queries about how sure are you, and a big argument over the chem bio suits not being good enough.

 I think the problem is the press didn't know and doesn't know, but now it's convenient to pretend that if they dug deep enough they could have found one person who said WMD was probably not there, before the war.

 In fact, the glaringly blatant omission even now is their great cadre of witnesses who knew WMD wasn't there before the war.

 Where are they lib press idiots? Can't you find even one who will quack up a lie for you and forge some documents to claim they said otherwise prior to invasion ? I gues not.

 GWB must have had absolute control over every dem in the entire congress, all of whom had access to all the WMD evaluation of the intel agencies, and it was reported a total of 6 members of either party in congress actually took advantage of their right, and showed up somewhere in the bowels of intelligence to check for themselves.

Not one of them has come forward, claiming they knew something other than the lie about GWB sexed up intel.

 The press looks so pathetic on this, it's shameful to watch them continue to complain about themselves, while trying to blame it all on Bush.

 They are a SHAME to a portion of the 1st amendment, even as they lie about the reason why.

Never forget that Bill Press is a Democratic operative, having run for the Congress in California (and losing) and working on Democratic staffs.  No doubt, Press is trying to provide some cover for all those Dem Senators and Representatives who voted for the war by blaming the MSM for not doing its job.

This is a testmonial to the arrogance of the mainstream media.  The only way you can believe not stopping the war was the fault of the press is to believe that the press had the power to stop it.

"Apparently, their hypocricy knows no boundaries..." -Tombstone

Never forget that Bill Press is such a pea-brained, blithering idiot that he fell for the internet hoax of the century, to wit: the "study" from the "Lovenstein Institute of Scranton, Pennsylvania".

I apologize for the length, but this fantasy really irritates me. Let’s take the presumption that “a more inquisitive press would have prevented Iraq” and examine it. For this to fly, we’d have to believe either that the press would …

• pursue its own sources about Saddam’s WMDs. But who would they interview? There are only so many reliable sources about a secret weapons program inside Iraq, so how does the MSM work the argument? In Bill Moyers’ excruciating documentary, he pushes the idea that the media should have interviewed the skeptics away from Washington. And who are they? Notice that Moyers doesn’t identify actual sources, just other journalists. And he presents the journalists as skeptics, but if you read it carefully, you see that they were only skeptics that Saddam had a link to al-Qaeda. Those same foreign-based journalists have no reservation about whether Saddam was a brutal dictator, and they had no evidence denying that Saddam had WMDs.
• interview the same sources on whom the administration relied. In that case, either they’d get the same answers, or you’d have to argue that our intelligence agents lie to the president but tell the truth to the press. The agents “know” that Bush only hears what he wants to hear, or that agents were afraid that Karl Rove would retaliate against anyone spreading bad news. So, according to this, these otherwise brave agents willingly advanced a war they knew was wrong, because they were afraid to offend.

The problem is that the Beltway already has a method of dealing with a deaf politician: it’s called “leaking.” But no one leaked anything to the press at the time. The leaks only started when the intelligence proved wrong, and the people who were responsible for the faulty intelligence scrambled to avoid blame. Then the ship sprouted thousands of leaks.

That leaves us with the Karl Rove fear, which is perfect because you don’t need to offer evidence. Moyers offers nothing than anecdotes from reporters who claim they “you just knew not to question.” Moyers then claims the ‘patriot police’ would come knocking, leaving you with the idea of terrible Gestapo-like retaliation if reporters didn’t obey. And what was this dreaded threat of retaliation? He cites Walter Isaacson: there would be phone calls from people in corporations (not from advertisers or Bush operatives), who told him he was being un-American. In other words, they would be criticized. Big whup.

This is entirely a psychodrama that the MSM is playing, at our expense, as a way to retain their illusion that they’re powerful and virtuous. “If only they had stayed true to themselves,” they’d have slain the Bush War Monster.

What a self-indulgent pile of crap!

Bill Press...you are sooooo over.

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