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2005-01-18 Fifth Column

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Posted by anonymous2u 2005-01-18 12:04:08 AM|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The US media is disciplined by corporate America into promoting the Republican cause.

If true, then it's 'bout g*ddam time.

On Thursday, the fairy king of fairyland will be recrowned. He was elected on a platform suspended in midair by the power of imagination.

That must be the Deomcratic Party platform and John Kerry's campaign you mean.

He is the leader of a band of men who walk through ghostly realms unvisited by reality.

Two months after an election and the left continues to deny what has happened. Who is living in unrealty?

And he remains the most powerful person on earth.

Isn't it terrible? A plain spoken man with a backbone welding power Constitutionally.

How did this happen? How did a fantasy president from a world of make believe come to govern a country whose power was built on hard-headed materialism?

Whoa, baby. Take a course in Economics 101 before you twist that into an accusation.

To find out, take a look at two squalid little stories which have been concluded over the past 10 days.

Squalid because the left was deeply involved in it and little because the fifth column press is too embarassed to give it the play it deserves.

The first involves the broadcaster CBS. In September, its 60 Minutes programme ran an investigation into how George Bush avoided the Vietnam draft. It produced memos which appeared to show that his squadron commander in the Texas National Guard had been persuaded to "sugarcoat" his service record. The programmeâs allegations were immediately and convincingly refuted: Republicans were able to point to evidence suggesting the memos had been faked. Last week, following an inquiry into the programme, the producer was sacked, and three CBS executives were forced to resign.

The incident couldnât have been more helpful to Bush. Though there is no question that he managed to avoid serving in Vietnam,

There wasn't? Then why the fake memos?

the collapse of CBSâs story suggested that all the allegations made about his war record were false,

Funny how that works. You lie and all the other 'facts' which support the lie gets called into question.

and the issue dropped out of the news. CBS was furiously denounced by the rightwing pundits, with the result that between then and the election, hardly any broadcaster dared to criticise George Bush. Mary Mapes, the producer whom CBS fired, was the networkâs most effective investigative journalist: she was the person who helped bring the Abu Ghraib photos to public attention.

If Mapes leaked the Abu Ghraib photos to the press then that fact alone justifies the firing of this fifth columnist. But the writer fails to mention Mapes was a leftist with an agenda and the full resources of a worldwide news organization and she still couldn't get her story right because it was a lie.

If the memos were faked, the forger was either a moron or a very smart operator.

I vote moron.

Posted by badanov 2005-01-18 6:14:23 AM|| [http://www.rkka.org/title-boris.gif] 2005-01-18 6:14:23 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Monbiot sounds French for Moonbat. Must be a Rovian ploy.

Posted by 2b 2005-01-18 10:49:16 AM|| 2005-01-18 10:49:16 AM|| Front Page Top

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