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2007-02-08 Iraq

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Posted by Steve 2007-02-08 07:54|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 He wants fizzling nukes?

Posted by 3dc 2007-02-08 08:20|| 2007-02-08 08:20|| Front Page Top

#2 "Why are the editors and reporters of that paper not telling their readers anything about Iraq's top terrorist?"

Because the NYT is not in the business of reporting news; they are in the business of churning out leftist propaganda.

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2007-02-08 09:31|| 2007-02-08 09:31|| Front Page Top

#3 Again, I ask: Did the founders have this in mind when they offered the freedom of the press ? I think not, and I am willing to live without freedom of the press if they insist on misleading the simple amongst us. While we're at it, let's put in a voters IQ test.

Posted by wxjames 2007-02-08 09:48|| 2007-02-08 09:48|| Front Page Top

#4 Ummm... wx? The New York Times is what we'd have if we didn't have Freedom of the Press.

Rantburg is Freedom of the Press. So's Instapundit, Pajamas Media, Kathy Kinsley, Bill Quick, Matt Welsh, Mickey Kaus, Charles Johnson, Christopher Johnson, Ken Lane, Tim Blair, James Lileks, Lucianne, and thousands of others.

Posted by Fred 2007-02-08 09:58|| 2007-02-08 09:58|| Front Page Top

#5 As I recall, the American press at the time of the founding was about as yellow as "journalism" can get. Most of the broadsheets were put out by party partisans, with lionization of our guy and scandal about his opponent the order of the day. In France shortly thereafter they were printing pornographic cartoons of Marie Antoinette and those imagined to be her lovers. On the other hand, most people couldn't read, so the political responses of the nonvoting masses were formed by rumour and riot instead.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-02-08 10:30|| 2007-02-08 10:30|| Front Page Top

#6 BTW, a nice timeline. Rantburg day-by-day reports sometimes lose the narrative.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-02-08 11:12|| 2007-02-08 11:12|| Front Page Top

#7 Interesting. The author of the article is a fellow at the Hudson Institute think tank, and before that ran the research bureau of the Iraqi Nat'l Congress in Washington, DC. Interesting list of articles it looks like he wrote for the NY Sun, too.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-02-08 11:20|| 2007-02-08 11:20|| Front Page Top

#8 One thing I'd like to see on Rantburg is a way to link associated posts, vaguely similar to threaded messages on Google Groups.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-02-08 19:56|| 2007-02-08 19:56|| Front Page Top

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