If the NYT should be prosecuted, why shouldn't Bush? ...

DyePack · Jul 5, 2006

dog428 said:

DyePack said:

dog428 said:

DyePack said:

D-Backs Hack said:

Yeah, the administration's victory against the New York Times in the court of public opinion is so convincing that a protest in front of the NYT building this weekend drew Michelle Malkin . . . and about 20 others.
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Which is 20 or 21 more people than the vocal supporters of Judy Miller these days.
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And while the Judy Miller situation is at the top of the administration's list of most important things to point out, it falls somewhere around 2,000 on the list of important shit the American public cares about.

I'm willing to bet right now that no more 10 percent of the American public could pick Judy Miller out of a lineup with the Beetles.

The administration and its supporters can scream and shout about Miller all they want. That situation pales in comparison to so many other things. It's kind of like rolling up to a 40-car pileup (actually, with Fredo and Co., it'd be more like a 1,000-car pileup) on the Interstate and focusing on a woman with a few scratches while 20 people are dying.
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Gee, dog, the media sure thought the Judy Miller issue was important, until they finally got around to doing their damn homework on the whole thing.

In fact, I doubt the media did much homework. They just got their ass handed to them when the facts trickled out on their own.

That's why the administration you love to kick around can use the Times as a whipping boy whenever it feels like it.

The public may not give a shit, but it knows the media is dumber than the administration that is supposedly dumber than dirt.
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It was important when she was IN JAIL.

No matter how you slice it up, a journalist going to jail for refusing to name sources in a White House leak scandal is NEWS. If you think otherwise, you're an ... ah hell, nevermind.
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And it quickly became unimportant. She was still IN JAIL when the real details finally tricked out.

This is just another case where the media are closing their eyes and ears and hoping everyone will just forget that ever happened. Sorry, not gonna happen. I have a list of the AP staffers who signed that petition for her release, although some of them either chickened out or were asked to remove their names. When they did that, they ensured they would never be objective about that issue or anything similar to it.

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