Wednesday, December 14, 2005

More blatant media bias

In a headline CNN claims that "Bush takes responsibility for invasion intelligence" The next paragraph gives the specific words of Bush: "It is true that much of the intelligence turned out to be wrong," Bush said during his fourth and final speech before Thursday's vote for Iraq's parliament. "As president I am responsible for the decision to go into Iraq. And I'm also responsible for fixing what went wrong by reforming our intelligence capabilities. And we're doing just that."
Interesting because I don't see anywhere in there that he took "responsibility for invasion intelligence." He stated that the intelligence was wrong, he took reponsibility for the decision to go into Iraq, and that he is responsible for reforming the intelligence capabilities! Obviously media bias when they run a headline which is purely false. They're trying to make it sound like Bush was the person responsible for the incorrect intelligence, which is false. Ugh, ridiculous.

3 Comments:

At 2:23 PM, Blogger Kent said...

David,

Good commentary.

Here's what I've been wondering for two years.

In the run-up to the Iraqi invasion, there was a six month period where the United States was bogged down @ the United Nations, attempting to create a broad coalition to disarm Iraq. During that six month window isn't it completely plausible that Iraq moved their WMD's to Iran or Syria or Jordan or Lebanon?

Why do so few people have the intellectual curiosity to ask such a question?

 
At 6:01 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yeah, if it is "possible" then that is what they probably did.

 
At 7:24 PM, Blogger Mike said...

Liberal bias is so pervasive its amazing it's even a debate these days. For those interested, check out "Civil Rights and the News Media", a 1998 article found in the Chapman University School of Law. If you have lexis or westlaw, go to cite 3-SPG NEXUS 37. It has great facts like how 81% of journalists and professors voted for McGovern in 1972, although only 30% of the general public did, etc. But it goes deeper, into civil rights, etc. A very good read.

Fantastic blogging! I look forward to new posts!

 

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