On Jun 7, 2009, at 5:28 PM, Chris Gehlker wrote: > > On Jun 7, 2009, at 10:36 AM, Kevin Callahan wrote: > >> >> On Jun 7, 2009, at 10:00 AM, Chris Gehlker wrote: >> >>> You'd think they would have learned by now: >>> <http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/07/opinion/07pubed.html? >>> _r=1&ref=opinion> >> >> and this by Greenwald speaking :What the New Jim Comey Torture Emails >> Actually Reveal >> by Glenn Greenwald >> >> >> http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/06/07 > > Both these stories illustrate a phenomenon that is captured nicely by > the "What Happened to Skepticism?" headline. The leading lights of the > liberal media seem incapable of grasping the notion that a politician > might lie. It's not just the NYT either. The other night I saw Richel > Maddow struggling to find the grain of truth in something Liz Cheney > had said. Her assumption was that Liz might spin or exaggerate or put > the best light on things but she wouldn't just make shit up.
must have been the rare episode we missed due to our iMac starting to freeze up on a regular basis -- mostly due to it having issues with backing up to TimeMachine > > I don't know where this comes from. These are the people who brought > us Willie Horton. If even one formate inmate of Gitmo had been caught > on the battle people shooting at US soldiers we would know his name, > the exact time and place of his capture, and what kind of weapon he > was carrying. Didn't Obama try to tell "conspiracy theorists" to essentially live with the govt. story? It was VERY odd that he had to say "Al Queda admitted to it ... " well, if they did -- and if bin Laden is the purported head of AQ, why hasn't he been charged with the crime? Jesse Ventura's question. He asked the FBI why OBL hasn't been charged for the crime but hasn't been given an answer. Here are others on the subject: http://digg.com/politics/FBI_Admits_It_Has_No_Hard_Evidence_Against_Bin_Laden_for_911 > If even one subject of 'enhanced interrogation' had > yielded information that saved even one US life we would know chapter > and verse. Why do journalists insist on publicizing stories that don't > have verifiable detail? It's as if they can no longer distinguish and why is there even a debate about the effectiveness of torture ? yeah, bank robbery can be effective, too K > \ _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
