The NY Times & Iraq

11:10 pm EST October 19th, 2005 | Politics | 10 Comments

For a couple years now I’ve gone around noting the fact that when the truth about Jayson Blair came out, the New York Time went “balls to the wall” in explaining each and every instance no matter how miniscule of Blair’s deceptions. Contrast that to the Times’ mea culpa on their reporting of the WMDs in the lead up to the Iraq war – a quickie “our bad” on page A10 that took great pains to never actually mention Judith Miller’s name.

Jayson Blair may have been a horrible person, but nothing he did ever helped usher a nation into war and result in the deaths of thousands of people. Along comes news today about how Miller was a defacto member of the White House’s Iraq propaganda group.

Somehow I think that the Times still owes America, and the world, something better than an A10 tale.

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10 Responses to “The NY Times & Iraq”

  1. Semanticleo says:
    October 19, 2005 at 11:10 pm

    Speaking of Iraq;

    Ten More Years! Ten More Years! Ten More Years!

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051019/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_iraq;_ylt=AjGplMhb_q8PAMsginu5DaOyFz4D;_ylu=X3oDMTA5aHJvMDdwBHNlYwN5bmNhdA–

  2. Quaker in a Basement says:
    October 20, 2005 at 12:10 am

    The difference? Blair ‘fessed up. Miller still won’t even tell Keller the truth.

  3. David W says:
    October 20, 2005 at 1:10 am

    the other difference? Blair wasn’t entrenched with the city’s Power Elite, and Close Personal Friends with the Publisher.

  4. dugger1 says:
    October 20, 2005 at 7:10 am

    Well, well. Ain’t life grand? YET ANOTHER ANONYMOUS SOURCE helps progressives make a killer point. H*ll, if all of your annoymous sources voted, the Haunted Tree might be president. Hm. An ex intelligence agent. And there just have been no ex intelligent agents out there running around parroting left wing talking points. Not a one. Nope. None that left the CIA in say the late eighties. None with the word Sanity in their moniker. Why not cut to the chase and have them just …err …discover a source who saw Rove and Libby kill Ron and Nicole.

    You can call me Dugger, but you doesn’t have to call me Johnson

  5. buma says:
    October 20, 2005 at 8:10 am

    Gee Dug, do you suppose Johnson may be right, or are you still casting your lot with Curveball?

  6. Semanticleo says:
    October 20, 2005 at 5:10 pm

    I’m sure Powell approved this. I wish he would stop being such a boy scout team player.

    http://news.ft.com/cms/s/afdb7b0c-40f3-11da-b3f9-00000e2511c8.html

  7. trevorwells says:
    October 21, 2005 at 12:10 am

    I would say you have officially become a radicalized conscious black man. Welcome to the club.

  8. Frank_D says:
    October 22, 2005 at 9:10 pm

    Here’s a neat story by a Democrat, abut Iraq

    http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson200510210831.asp

  9. Frank_D says:
    October 22, 2005 at 9:10 pm

    Dig up another Colonel (Wilkerson) out of the basement, put him in front of a bunch of liberals (the New America FDN), and what do you expect? Loyalty?

  10. gradioc says:
    October 23, 2005 at 8:10 pm

    I try not to have knee-jerk reactions. OK, now that Judith Miller is out of jail the worm has turned and suddenly she is part of The Gang. But I have a question. If she was the willing cat’s paw for Libby her fellows would make her out to be, WHY DID SHE NOT FILE THE PLAME STORY? She had it before Novak. It would have been a scoop. I’m not ready to burn her at the stake just yet.
    On the other hand, citing Libby as an ex-Hill staffer is hilarious. That description includes 20% of the population of DC including half of the bartenders in Georgetown.