- How can the main feature on NBC's Sunday June 5th Meet
the Press be a discussion of the increasingly popular Downing Street Memo?
After all, The New York Times has assured US by their silence that either
it doesn't exist, or that it is so insignificant that it doesn't qualify
for inclusion as "All the news that's fit to print." As Lindorff
points out, the despicable "American" media is only now reporting
news of the Memo on a "reactive basis."
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- Adding to their role as secret agents for "mission
ignorable," the mainstream media, hereafter referred to merely as
"MSM," are churning up marvelous distractions which are best
described as totally unimportant and irrelevant. Okay, I'll admit it!
I haven't the slightest clue as to "what up" with the Michael
Jackson "trial." And I don't care to know! And the buzz on "Deep
Throat" - who cares?!
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- A minor political break-in, a president receives oral
sex and lies about it, and we have impeachment! Now we have evidence,
and in writing, that the President of the United States deliberately ordered
deceptive "intelligence" to facilitate the wrongful, malicious
and self-serving intentions of what could only be described as the actions
of a warmongering genocidal maniac, and this is summarily ignored by the
MSM.
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- I am now reducing to writing what I continuously ask
myself: How do the people who "work" in the MSM live with themselves?
How do they sleep at night? How do they look at their family members,
especially their children, whom they obviously shower with money, expensive
gifts and vacations, and eventually with expensive colleges and universities,
when knowing all the while that the greatest land on Earth where all these
things were made possible and could have continued to thrive, will be gone?
How can they continue to allow our once great nation and all its freedoms
to be destroyed by one crazed lunatic and his cabal of clever warmongering
fanatics and crazies?
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- I guess the MSMers don't think this matter is serious
enough. I guess they believe all wars can be justified. I guess they
believe we will always be victorious. I guess they feel that technology
will never rise to where the horrific destruction of Earth, especially
our corner of it, as well as the majority of its people, will ever come
about. At what precise point will they acquire the needed resolve to stop
the partnership of genocidal butchery and technological kill power? I
would offer that there's no time like the present to take action to stop
this self-destructive madness.
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- Media Watch offers: "On the June
5 edition of NBC's Meet the Press, moderator Tim Russert questioned but
failed to correct Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman's
claim that the 'findings' of the Downing Street Memo, a secret British
intelligence memo suggesting that the Bush administration manipulated intelligence
to support its case for war in Iraq, 'have been totally discredited by
everyone who's looked at it,' including the 9-11 Commission and the Senate."
It may be recalled also that when British Prime Minister Tony Blair was
confronted with the news publicizing the memo in the May 1st Sunday London
Times, his reaction was that the memo was "old news."
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- Mehlman's contention that the 9-11 Commission seemingly
agonized over this memo and that the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
also thoroughly investigated it, is an outrageous bald-faced lie. Neither
ever happened! It is clear from this, that had the MSM in America exposed
the Downing Street Memo in a timely manner and with the appropriate shock
and awe given a Jacko wacko "trial," or a Martha Stewart economy-busting
crime wave, or a "Deep Throat" 32 years after the fact, Mehlman
would never have gotten away with such obvious misrepresentations of fact.
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- The Media Watch article continues: "When Russert
raised the issue of the Downing Street Memo's contention that, in the Bush
administration's push for war in Iraq, 'the intelligence and facts were
being fixed around the policy,' Mehlman replied: 'Tim, that report has
been discredited by everyone else who's looked at it since then. Whether
it's the 9-11 Commission, whether it's the Senate, whoever's looked at
this has said there was no effort to change the intelligence at all.'
When Russert noted 'I don't believe that the authenticity of this report
has been discredited,' Mehlman reiterated: 'I believe that the findings
of the report, the fact that the intelligence was somehow fixed, have been
totally discredited by everyone who's looked at it.'" Actually, Mehlman
stated the double lie three times!
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- None of what Mehlman says is even close to the truth.
The Downing Street Memo was only just reported on May 1st and well after
those supposed "investigations," and is the first solidly established
piece of written fact that proves that President Bush lied to Congress
and the American people in his constitutionally-mandated State of the Union
Address. It has never been reviewed by anyone on this side of the pond!
It proves Bush also lied when he requested all-encompassing war-making
powers which he has since so rigorously abused.
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- On a continuing basis, one sixth of the world's population
hates US more with each passing day. The unjust invasions and bloody wars
of Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as the prisoners of war and randomly rounded
up citizens our military routinely tortures and murders, have created an
increasingly angry world, which is rapidly diminishing their former ability
to distinguish between our dangerous rogue government and its ignorant
people.
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- Army recruitment has plummeted! Our populace is beginning
to figure out what Bush and his oil-thirsty warmongers and killer cabal
are up to. The gangsters are chomping at the bit to invade Syria and Iran
next, as confirmed by Congressman Curt Weldon [R-Pa.] on Meet the Press
on Sunday June 12th. Both he and Senator Joseph Biden [D-Del] acknowledged
the problem of falling recruitment, and Biden only skirted the real issue.
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- He offered only that Bush simply "level" with
the American people and provide an honest assessment of the real status
of the insurgency in Iraq. Both denied that a draft was being considered
or necessary. I would remind the reader that these statements are being
made by noted insiders within the Beltway.
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- Biden offered that all that is needed is honesty from
the president; what a hoot! Here he offers that the truth is all that
is needed to win back the confidence of the American people, while completely
ignoring the lies of this administration that got US into this mess in
the first place!
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- Ted Lang is a political analyst and freelance writer.
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