Amidst exposing other media myths about Iraq, Victor Davis Hanson points out the irony of a press corps that repeatedly accuses the Bush administration of incompetence:
Weigh that success [in Iraq] against the behavior of the media that sees mostly American incompetence. At CBS, Dan Rather insisted to us that a clearly forged memo, but one that fit his own ideological agenda, was authentic. Michael Isikoff relied on one anonymous
Insert both feet. Do they really think that this is going to help their cause? I think that this event is going to guarantee a harsher immigration bill.
[Late morning update]
A flag burning. Of a Mexican flag. In Arizona.
Things are heating up.
“If I get sick, please don’t pray for me.” Or, as he says, at least don’t tell me about it.
“If I get sick, please don’t pray for me.” Or, as he says, at least don’t tell me about it.
“If I get sick, please don’t pray for me.” Or, as he says, at least don’t tell me about it.
“…when the government’s not involved.”
Alan Boyle has been attempting to do some investigative reporting on his home-town rocket company, Blue Origin. It’s certainly been the hardest of the upstarts to get much info on, but it’s a tantalizing story. My inner editor tells me that he needs to end it with an adverb, though. 😉
“…when the government’s not involved.”
Alan Boyle has been attempting to do some investigative reporting on his home-town rocket company, Blue Origin. It’s certainly been the hardest of the upstarts to get much info on, but it’s a tantalizing story. My inner editor tells me that he needs to end it with an adverb, though. 😉
“…when the government’s not involved.”
Alan Boyle has been attempting to do some investigative reporting on his home-town rocket company, Blue Origin. It’s certainly been the hardest of the upstarts to get much info on, but it’s a tantalizing story. My inner editor tells me that he needs to end it with an adverb, though. 😉
So I will, too. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you…Geoffrey Chaucer’s blog. The guy’s a comedy genius, if you’re into Middle English.
…need to be fired for monumental, criminal incompetence. In fact, I’d go further, and say that the entire organization needs to be overhauled from the top down. Same thing for the CIA.
While Samit was spending a solid three weeks trying to get Washington to act on his pre-9/11 terror fears, future 9/11 hijacker Hani Hanjour was raising suspicions with his flight training in Phoenix (suspicions Samit was not told about until after 9/11). Margaret Chevrette of the Pan Am International Flight Academy reported her worries to the FAA and somehow those concerns also made their way to CIA chief Tenet and into CIA memos of August 2001, but the FBI never acted on them. Yet on September 12, FBI agents interviewed Chevrette for more information on Hanjour