DeclinetoState
05-08-2006, 05:12 PM
Glen Greenwald (http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2006/05/time-to-smear-latest-bush-critic.html).
If you go to the page, you have to scroll down a bit to find this article.
Friday, May 05, 2006
<!-- Begin .post -->Time to smear the latest Bush critic
Yesterday, Ray McGovern -- an American citizen with a 27-year career as a CIA analyst behind him -- stood up (http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=1924021) at a speech given by Donald Rumsfeld and aggressively questioned Rumsfeld on various statements Rumsfeld made regarding Iraq. McGovern specifically questioned Rumsfeld about this claim (http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/05/media-fails-to-report/) made in March, 2003: "We know where [the WMD] are. They’re in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat." We all know what happens to people, including those with a long history of government service, who publicly embarrass the administration - it's time for a nice heap of character smear.
Today, Glenn "Instapundit" Reynolds praises and links to (http://instapundit.com/archives/030097.php) an investigation into McGovern's "background" which was undertaken by (http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2006/05/nutjob-ray-mcgovern-heckles-rummy.html) The Gateway Pundit. Reynolds asks: "Why don't the Big Media do this kind of thing?"
What is it that Gateway Pundit's investigation revealed about McGovern that prompted Reynolds' admiration, along with his lament that "Big Media" failed to issue a similar report? To begin with, in the headlines of Gateway Pundit's post, we learn right away that McGovern is a"nutjob," as in: "Nutjob Ray McGovern Heckles Rummy."
But that revelation is just the beginning. Gateway Pundit also informs us that McGovern is a "certified nutcase" who "has a trail of lunatic behavior a mile long." G.P. also uncovered evidence conclusively demonstrating that McGovern is a "moonbat." I agree with Instapundit- what right does the MSM have to keep this important information from us?
What is the evidence which supports these substantive allegations? G.P. first cites a website - something called PrisonPlanet.com - with the headline: "Government May be Manufacturing Fake Terrorism," presumably to imply that McGovern believes that Islamic terrorist attacks are perpetrated by the U.S. Government. In fact, the website (http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/october2005/191005McGovern.htm) merely quotes McGovern as accusing the administration and its supporters of manipulating terrorist threats in order to maximize their power and urging skepticism about government statements in the event that another terrorist attack prompts efforts to impose martial law.
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If you go to the page, you have to scroll down a bit to find this article.
Friday, May 05, 2006
<!-- Begin .post -->Time to smear the latest Bush critic
Yesterday, Ray McGovern -- an American citizen with a 27-year career as a CIA analyst behind him -- stood up (http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=1924021) at a speech given by Donald Rumsfeld and aggressively questioned Rumsfeld on various statements Rumsfeld made regarding Iraq. McGovern specifically questioned Rumsfeld about this claim (http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/05/media-fails-to-report/) made in March, 2003: "We know where [the WMD] are. They’re in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat." We all know what happens to people, including those with a long history of government service, who publicly embarrass the administration - it's time for a nice heap of character smear.
Today, Glenn "Instapundit" Reynolds praises and links to (http://instapundit.com/archives/030097.php) an investigation into McGovern's "background" which was undertaken by (http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2006/05/nutjob-ray-mcgovern-heckles-rummy.html) The Gateway Pundit. Reynolds asks: "Why don't the Big Media do this kind of thing?"
What is it that Gateway Pundit's investigation revealed about McGovern that prompted Reynolds' admiration, along with his lament that "Big Media" failed to issue a similar report? To begin with, in the headlines of Gateway Pundit's post, we learn right away that McGovern is a"nutjob," as in: "Nutjob Ray McGovern Heckles Rummy."
But that revelation is just the beginning. Gateway Pundit also informs us that McGovern is a "certified nutcase" who "has a trail of lunatic behavior a mile long." G.P. also uncovered evidence conclusively demonstrating that McGovern is a "moonbat." I agree with Instapundit- what right does the MSM have to keep this important information from us?
What is the evidence which supports these substantive allegations? G.P. first cites a website - something called PrisonPlanet.com - with the headline: "Government May be Manufacturing Fake Terrorism," presumably to imply that McGovern believes that Islamic terrorist attacks are perpetrated by the U.S. Government. In fact, the website (http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/october2005/191005McGovern.htm) merely quotes McGovern as accusing the administration and its supporters of manipulating terrorist threats in order to maximize their power and urging skepticism about government statements in the event that another terrorist attack prompts efforts to impose martial law.
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