In reporting and commenting on Sen. Rick Santorum's (R-PA) and House
Intelligence Committee Chairman Peter Hoekstra's (R-MI) June 21 claim
that a recently declassified intelligence report found that there
were "weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq prior to the March 2003
U.S.-led invasion, Fox News' Brit Hume, John Gibson, and Jim Angle,
as well as nationally syndicated radio hosts Rush Limbaugh and Janet
Parshall, continued to ignore conclusive assertions of intelligence
officials that the degraded chemical munitions found were not, in
fact, in the category of "weapons of mass destruction" that the U.S.
was looking for at the time of the invasion. They also ignore the
Iraq Survey Group's (ISG) September 2004 final report (also known as
the Duelfer report), which noted that degraded chemical munitions had
already been found in Iraq, and that they were not proof of an
existing chemical weapons stockpile or of a renewed Iraqi chemical
weapons program. Indeed, former ISG head Charles Duelfer stated that
the munitions hyped by Santorum and Hoekstra do not qualify as
weapons of mass destruction, though they may still pose a local threat.
Nevertheless, Hume reported that "[t]op administration officials said
today that chemical and biological weapons have indeed been found in
Iraq," and a report by Angle uncritically aired a statement by
Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld that these munitions "are
weapons of mass destruction." Further, Angle's report
mischaracterized a statement by Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA), ranking
Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, to suggest that she
downplayed the danger of these munitions.
On Sep 13, 2007, at 8:10 AM, justifiedright wrote:
Any examples of them making stuff up where they didn't admit to it?
I don't think there are any.
I gave you several in the MSM.
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "asburycouple" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> For years professional wrestling wouldn't admit that they weren't
> really fighting either. The fact that they wouldn't admit it
didn't
> mean it was real.
>
>
>
>
>
> --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "justifiedright"
> <justifiedright@> wrote:
> >
> > AsburyCouple I gave examples of the MSM making up stories and
> > ADMITTING to doing it.
> >
> > Do you have anything on Fox that comes close?
> >
> > I'm sure someone on this board is going to link to some left
wing
> > site that will say they don't like Fox. That's not the point.
> >
> > I'm talking about admitted examples of making stuff up.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "asburycouple"
<asburycouple@>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Tom - I'll buy that both sides of the media spectrum have
acted
> > very
> > > poorly and at times have not served the public by reporting
> things
> > > other than the truth. But please don't insult everyone's
> > > intelligence by saying that Rush and Fox don't make things
up. I
> > was
> > > with you until you went there, at which point your entire
> argument
> > > was invalidated...
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "justifiedright"
> > > <justifiedright@> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, Gary Wien <lightgrw@>
wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Just because Fox News or
> > > > > Rush says so doesn't make it so...
> > > >
> > > > Gary,
> > > >
> > > > CBS did Dan Rather's forged document show.
> > > >
> > > > NBC blew up a truck with a device pretending the truck had a
> > > problem.
> > > >
> > > > Reuters got caught repeatedly in the "Fauxtography" scandal
> > where
> > > > they doctored photos or staged photos
> > > >
> > > > New York Times colunist Jayson Blair simply made up stories
> > > >
> > > > Associated Press got caught in the "Fauxtography" scandal
> where
> > > > they doctored photos or staged photos
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Fox News and Rush don't make things up. The "mainsteam
media"
> > has
> > > > been caught making things up and admitting it.
> > > >
> > > > I'll take Fox News for integrity any day.
> > > >
> > >
> >
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