RLENT
Veteran Expediter
Yup, you could take that to the bank - indeed I do.If you call what's going on in this thread "hero worship", and you recognize that many are not fond of lies and those that tell them, you must really think the obama drones are something!!
No DD .... not really laughing at it ... since I don't view it as at all funny.She did indeed issue a retraction and if you read it, I think you'll be hard pressed to call this an out and out lie as much as perhaps she mis-spoke. I know you'll have a laugh at that one
You are (or would be) correct to say though that I do think her retraction is disingenuous to say the least - "true believers" may see it differently of course.
If she indeed had any journalistic integrity, she would have just done a mea culpa .... and let it go at that .... or maybe if she had enough personal integrity she would have done a couple of other things:
1. actually called Ron Paul and apologized for falsely maligning him ....
2. insisted to Fox News that as a precondition of her appearing again on their network, she be allowed to issue a formal retraction on camera, in the same manner that she had made the false accusations.
..... instead she spent most of her "retraction" attempting to justify what she had done .... and continuing to try to further marginalize Ron Paul by painting him as some kind of kook, by rather condescending and inflammatory statements, the accurateness of which could said to be somewhat dubious .....
As one who listened to innumerable hours (in the hundreds) of 9/11 commission testimony on C-SPAN, I can certainly state - with no reservations whatsoever - that it was a flawed process - largely because it was a political process.
Just take a look at who the members were ..... Jamie Gorelick ? .... Richard Ben-Veniste ? .... Slade Gorton ? Gimme a break .... partisan hacks and shills on both sides, tasked with covering the hiney's of those in power (from both sides of the aisle) who had screwed the pooch and dropped the ball on domestic security .....
The above is not to say to somehow the US was behind the attacks, just that the process was flawed - which was the entirety of Ron Paul's point.
By all means - if one looks at what Ms. Malkin says there, it only lends more credibility to the analysis I linked to onso I'll post this LINK that was missing from your post so the folks can decide for themselves.
LewRockwell.com (which certainly ain't a liberal site .....)
Yeah - the latter would be pretty much the functional equivalent of what Ms. Malkin ultimately did .... accusing a ten-term Texas congressman of stuff he never did or said on national TV ..... and then issuing a retraction on ..... her website ....I should add that at LEAST she DID retract....many don't bother or if they do, you'll find it buried on the last page.
"The incident I was referring to was an exchange that took place at a campaign house party, not during an on-campus joint appearance, as I mistakenly stated. I regret the errors and am forwarding this post to The Big Story producers so that they can air these corrections if they wish to do so."
Perhaps the above is your idea of the level responsibility one is required to exercise after having made false statements on national media - it isn't mine. One can only wonder at the extent of the damage done by such reckless conduct .... and sadly Fox personnel (Carl Cameron, Chris Wallace, and Sean Hannity among others) were guilty of it repeatedly ....
Personally me, I'm not all too big of fan of those media types that attempt to tell me what the facts are (only what they say) and then tell me what to think about them, or where to look, or not to look - I'm happy to figure it out all by my lonesome. YMMV.
Like the video said, it was "YouDecide2008" ..... provided that the only choice you wanted was the ones they were going to allow you to have ......
You are free to see it as you wish - my point is not that Ms. Malkin is always wrong, but simply that she too is merely a partisan political hack - willing to stoop to whatever level necessary to get the job done ..... in the same vein as say a James Carville, or a Keith (makes me wanna puke) Olbermann .... probably no better or no worse.Common sense, especially in these trying times but if this is the best you have against Michelle it's rather lame.
Only you can answer that - decide to the best of your ability, and then hope and pray that you were correct.Should I wonder at your "truthiness" on Michelle as her book about lies and corruption in the Obama administration stands at #1 Bestseller on Amazon?
As would be another book I'm very fond of, and would highly recommend:If one enjoys reading about lies and liars, especially those in high political places, this is the book for you!!
Hell to Pay: The Unfolding Story of Hillary Rodham Clinton
by Barbara Olson, the wife of our former Solicitor General, Ted Olson. She died on the plane that crashed into Pentagon on 9/11 (may God rest her soul)
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