The Real Legacy of the Plame Affair
In watching more of PBS Frontline's fantastic "News War" series - and specifically the section about the Valerie Plame affair - it struck me that the most troubling aspect of the entire case was the...
View ArticleUranium, Middle East Nuclear Policy, the New York Times, Editorials Desguised...
One of the more bizarre features of the flow of mass deception and amnesia that has characterized the last 6 years is how quickly all these events fall into the memory hole.What became of the terror of...
View ArticleJudy Miller: She's ba-a-a-c-k.....
....you thought she was dead-and-buried, didn't you? You hoped she was dead-and-buried, didn't you? In the words of John Belushi, "But noooooooo". She appears in today's Wall Street Journal and one...
View ArticleLetter to a Neighbor
by Larry C Johnson (bio/blog)Received a copy of David Corn's latest brilliance. He takes NY Times columnist David Brooks to task and schools him. What David Corn did not know is that Mr. Brooks lives...
View ArticleMichael Kinsley and the Punditry Trap
Michael Kinsley's NY Times editorial today conflating President Clinton's lies with Scooter Libby's illustrates a trap much more insidious than a so-called "Perjury Trap" that he feels poor Scooter...
View ArticleA Recipe for Nuking Iran
On May 11 Cheney warned Iran from the deck of an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf that the United States will not permit Iran to develope nuclear weapons. "With two carrier strike groups in the...
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The New York Times Spanks Itself
Ever since 9/11, much of the media has engaged in a brand of journalism that more closely resembled stenography. It consisted mainly of uncritically regurgitating White House misrepresentations of...
View ArticleCulture of Violence, Part 4: Who are we?
Part 1: Searching for a FuturePart 2: CooperationPart 3: Is Positivism the Cure?Order: The Search for a Nonviolent Future
View Article*Rove* resigns to do rap with Francis L. Holland, Libby, Lieb
(Courtesy of Roving Stone News Desk) Today Karl Rove resigned as President Bush's top adviser, giving the reason that he wanted to spend more time with blogger Francis L. Holland. Rove said, "F....
View ArticleJudith Miller joins conservative Manhattan Institute. Discuss.
How utterly shocking that Judith "we were proved fu*king right" Miller has formally joined the right-of-center think tank, Manhattan Institute. How shocking this is....I found that her bio below left...
View ArticleChuck Hagel on Bill Maher 9/07/07
I remember that dreary fall of 2002 when Jim Lehrer would have Chuck Hagel and Richard Lugar and Joe Biden on about once a week to repeat again and again and again how the initial "defeat" of Iraq's...
View ArticleShielding reporters or shielding Judith Miller?
Today's New York Times editorial calls for the passage of a bipartisan shield law that would protect journalists from having to reveal their sources of information. The current bill that is up for...
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66% Of Democrats Still In Love With Their Media Abusers
A newly released Gallup poll reveals a national trust gap with regard to the media. Amongst its findings is that less than half of respondents (48%) report having either a great or a fair amount...
View ArticleJudith Miller Smears CIA in review of new book on Iraq WMDs
Tucked away in Saturday's edition of the Wall Street Journal is a simply stunning through the looking glass book review by Judith Miller. Not surprisingly, the wingnut editors who control certain pages...
View ArticleMedia, Congress, Colluding Again On Iraq Lies Report
With the release of the new report by the The Center for Public Integrity (CPI) on the 900+ lies used by the Bush junta to foment Iraq war-fever and invasion justifications (link:...
View ArticleGalloway foreword from my book
I'm proud to say that one of the most famous and respected war reporters of the past 40 years, Joseph L. Galloway -- co-author of We Were Soldiers Once...and Young -- wrote the foreword for my new book...
View ArticleFind Out Who Really Climbed The NY Times Building
In Act of Penance, NY Times Reporters Climb Building(reposted from my blog www.richieville.com)Richieville News Service, NEW YORK, NY The New York City Police announced today that contrary to earlier...
View ArticleA Dumb War Brought to You by Dumb People
For dumb reasons, all of this dumbness enabled by dumb legislators, as well as being fought in a dumb way, resulting in a dumb, stupid civil war which is being further enabled by another bunch of dumb,...
View ArticleAnti-Obama "Times" Editorial Gutted
Gene McCarthy used to say that the function of liberal Republicans was that, when they saw a drowning man, they would throw him a rope exactly halfway too short to reach him. Under the ironclad...
View ArticleThe public relations war we need to fight (& pie!)
Historical background on the Lie Factory:Remember the lead up to the Iraq War? The hype was thick and well orchestrated. Cheney's gal Friday, Judith Miller, was dishing his dirt in the New York Times...
View ArticleJudith Miller joins Fox
A match made in heaven hell.Former New York Times reporter Judith Miller, who spent 85 days in jail for contempt of court during the Valerie Plame affair, has joined the Fox News Channel as a...
View ArticleThese folks are domestic terrorists too.
The reports are all over the place. A car is vandalized - its windows smashed, its doors painted with illegible words. A bear cub is slaughtered and campaign signs hung on its neck. People cowardly...
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O'Reilly, Hannity, And Beck: What Recession?
The economy continues to spiral downward in the U.S. and the world. Nearly a million Americans have lost their jobs just this year. Trillions of dollars in value have been lost in retirement and...
View ArticleWTF??? Movie about Valerie Plame outing makes Judith Miller the GOOD GUY???
OK, I'm incredibly confused here.Rod Lurie is a fairly talented filmmaker and producer who's probably best known for the short-lived TV series "Commander in Chief" with Geena Davis and the 2000...
View ArticleDon't Cry for the News
I do not feel any pity for Newspapers. They have done it to themselves. Gone are the days of the Muckrakers and the "yellow press". Gone are the journalists. The Jack Andersons of yesteryear were...
View ArticleNY Times Explains Propaganda in Its Guantanamo Stories
After a correction by the paper earlier this week, today in What Happened to Skepticism? the NY Times Public Editor tried to explain how and why it printed a "seriously flawed"article with the false...
View ArticleMorning Feature: Stenographers, Sages, and Seekers (The Information Fairy,...
"[M]y job isn't to assess the government's information and be an independent intelligence analyst myself. My job is to tell readers of The New York Times what the government thought about Iraq's...
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Throw The Bums Out
In the wake of last Tuesday's elections the press has coalesced into a near monotonic dispenser of conventional witless-dom. Pundit after pundit repeated the hackneyed, lazy analysis that the election...
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Judith Miller was Proved F'in Right: A Play in Five Acts
ACT 1: 2003Iraqi Mobile Bioweapons Facility, 2003. Same, but with sheep. Central Intelligence Agency diagram of how the facility works. Defense Intelligence Agency reminder that the Iraqi military...
View ArticleJudith Miller Joins Newsmax
Dave Weigel at Slatebrings us the latest on the continued fall of Judith Miller, Pulitzer Prize winner and Iraq War collaborator.The New York Times reporter who quit the paper in 2005 -- a casualty of...
View ArticleJudith Miller criticizes Julian Assange for not Verifying Sources
Cross-posted from Videocafe.Judith Miller (now "Judy" for Fox News) makes a crack about Wikileaks' Julian Assange being a "bad journalist" because --wait for it--JUDITH MILLER:... because he didn't...
View ArticleQuote the Ravin' 23: Vick's Medicine
Esby here, and Fred Phelps posted my bail! You may remember last week I was arrested in a Victoria's Secret for defending the War on Christmas. Although the celebrated day of Christmas has passed, we...
View ArticleAP Delusive: Graph suggests another anti-Iran CT hoax
Here we go again: another scaremongering conspiracy theory mascarading as a news story about Iran that doesn't add up. George Jahn's AP Exclusive: Graph suggests Iran working on bomb ran all over the...
View ArticleCall it What it Is: State Media
For years, we've been circling around the painful truth about US "news" media, using terms like "establishment" to describe the seemingly fact-indifferent political reporting of America's largest...
View ArticleDifference between media coverage of Iraq lead-up and now is astonishing
There’s something truly remarkable about the press coverage of the lead-up to the inevitable strike against Syria and the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The Obama administration has launched what it describes...
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Fox News Dementia: Media Is Not As Hard On Obama/Syria As They Were On Bush/Iraq
Yesterday Fox News ran a segment debating the media coverage of the "Crisis in Syria" (video below). Fox's own coverage of the Senate's hearing on Syria was brazenly biased as they cut away from almost...
View ArticleRT's Abby Martin Goes Off Against Corporate Media Propaganda
Last night, on Piers Morgan, Abby Martin went off on corporate media propaganda.Martin was bothered by seeing “the corporate media coverage almost wanting to revive the Cold War” and continuing to...
View ArticleNY Times photos of masked men had false captions & those anti-semitic fliers...
The New York Times published "Photos Link Masked Men in East Ukraine to Russia" by Andrew Higgins, Michael R. Gordon and Andrew E. Kramer prominently on page A1, April 20, 2014. The New York Times...
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Neocons’ stunning revisionism: Why they’re still divorced from reality...
Peter Bergen, CNN's national security reporter, writes a poignant column, entitled Bush's toxic legacy in Iraq, where he notes that under the guise of eliminating al Qaeda from Iraq George W. Bush...
View ArticleJudith Miller wants people to stop blaming her? Ok... I've got a deal for her!
Let's talk Judith....First, a catalog of your screw ups. Then, we tally up the costs. Finally, we can look at what options you have for amends.Let's start with a point of agreement. "There's nothing...
View Article98 Year Old Japanese War Pilot Fights for Peace while Judith Miller Wants...
A 98 year old Japanese war pilot is fighting for peace. He has serious concerns about Japan's move to modify its pacifist constitution 70 years after the end of World War II.“I fought the war from the...
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Judith Miller lies about Bush's Iraq lies
If being a neocon means never having to say you're sorry, then being an accessory to a world-historical mistake must grant you some kind of magical immunity. So it would seem after reading Bush...
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Judith Miller Cops A Plea: I Took America To War In Iraq. It Was All Me.
In the months leading up to the invasion of Iraq, a country that was falsely accused by the administration of George W. Bush of harboring weapons of mass destruction, the media was nearly lock-step in...
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Open thread for night owls: Valerie Plame jabs Judith Miller for her...
American soldiers clear underbrush in Iraqi palm grove with firebombs as part of Operation Archangel in 2008. Jordan Chariton at The Wrap writes, Valerie Plame Blasts Ex-NY Times Reporter Judith...
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The Daily & Nightly Shows
Tonight's guest on The Daily Show is Judith Miller and panelists Bob Costas, Charlamagne Tha God, and Chloé Hilliard discuss the unrest in Baltimore on The Nightly Show.Judith Miller is a journalist...
View Article"Judas" Miller on The Daily Show
If you have not seen this, it's a must watch. I don't think I have ever watched Stewart go after someone as aggressively. Why she showed up is a bit of a mystery to me. Maybe she needs the money. But...
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Breaking news from The Department of You Can't Make This Stuff Up
From Judith Miller, noted war-enabler:I sit down with James O'Keefe and talk about the state of journalism today. http://t.co/...—@JMfreespeech Discuss.
View ArticleFrom the Comey memos: the surprising appearance of Judy Miller (and thus...
As those reading this have probably found out by now, James Comey’s memos about his interactions with Trump during his limited tenure as FBI Director in Trump’s administration were leaked Thursday...
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