The Iraq Follies

From MoJo comes this little gem detailing just a few examples of our National Media and punditry's orgasm for dubya's Iraq attack. Back in those strange days when everything I saw from Bushco regarding Iraq set off bullshit alarms(Ex: Colin "Ho" Powell at the UN), but virtually all our "News" media was in the tank. If you weren't drooling over attacking Iraq, you wouldn't be on the tv-or in the paper much either for that matter. That's when I became a firm follower of Blogs and Internet news. It was/is the only place I've found sanity at times. Here's the top five of Greg Mitchell with The Iraq Follies:

Eighteen things you've already forgotten about the media's flawed coverage of Iraq.
1) The day before the invasion, Bill O'Reilly said, "If the Americans go in and overthrow Saddam Hussein and it's clean, he has nothing, I will apologize to the nation; I will not trust the Bush administration again, all right?"

2) Phil Donahue lost his show at MSNBC, he later claimed, because he did not wave the flag enough. A leaked NBC memo confirmed Donahue's suspicion, noting that the host "presents a difficult public face for NBC in a time of war.... At the same time our competitors are waving the flag at every opportunity."

3) After the fall of Baghdad, MSNBC's Chris Matthews declared, "We're all neocons now."

4) The same day, Joe Scarborough, also on MSNBC, said, "I'm waiting to hear the words 'I was wrong' from some of the world's most elite journalists, politicians, and Hollywood types."

5) The New York Times' Thomas Friedman wrote, "As far as I am concerned, we do not need to find any weapons of mass destruction to justify this war.... Mr. Bush doesn't owe the world any explanation for missing chemical weapons."

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