HOW FAR?
How long do we allow a personal affront from a friend to continue?
Our nation's acknowledged finest newspaper has purposely and with malicious intent, published so-called "news" which it knew to be other than that which they suggested it might be. They have, once again, found "news" which was not "fit to print" and published it anyway.
Exactly one week before Election Day 2004 the New York "Times" published a fine example of old-fashioned boiler-plate journalism - both text and photographic scraps depicting an ammunition dump which a have been hurriedly vacated and stripped of whatever weaponry it might have, at one time, contained. Whatever had been there was, beyond all doubt,gone.
The hanky-panky took over the story at that point. The entire spread was presented as if it had just happened. The event suggested and the photographs date from as long as eighteen months ago when American forces first entered the area. Readers were left with the illusion it had all happened within the last few days. TV news picked the story quickly and eager and printed news releases fanned out in a flood around the world and placing all blame for the ??sudden?? ammunitions loss on George Bush. Poorly led troops just sat there while terrorist stole about 380-tons of arsenal items in about thirty-eight semi-truck loads. Care was taken not to mention that the story and the photographs date from as much as eighteen months earlier when the American forces first arrived in the area. George W. Bush was to blame and Kerryisms were deftly done describing in fearful detail how, even now, terrorist gangs were fabricating a giant Election Eve attack on the United States made with the stolen ammunition. It was alleged that our uninspired, mis-led troops just sat there in the desert sands while Bin Laden's boys were stealing everything in sight ??through air vents in the roof of the storage buildings.?? Some think the contents of the ammunition dump may have been left over odds and ends from the Gulf War.
Think about this ridiculous, warm-over "story" presented as current news. Remember this deception when you read, see or listen to the "news" during the rest of this week.
What else might be set forward when there is not enough time remaining for refutation?
A.L.M. October 28, 2004 [c401wds]
