http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/57565/In the Name of Objectivity, the Media Clouds the Reality of Terror Report
By Arianna Huffington, HuffingtonPost.com. Posted July 21, 2007.
The newly released National Intelligence Estimate which utterly repudiates Bush's war in Iraq is being spun as a mixed bag of evidence -- with the spin dutifully echoed by the media.
Here we go again. Another devastating report being spun as a mixed bag -- with the spin dutifully echoed by the media. Another administration brain tumor being "offset" by shiny hair.
This time it's the new National Intelligence Estimate report on the threat of terrorist violence against America that is being given the utterly ludicrous "on the one hand... and on the other hand" treatment.
A prime example of this came on AC 360, where Anderson Cooper reported that "both sides in the Iraq debate are spinning
to support their case." To prove his point, he rolled a video clip of Bush making the case for staying the course in Iraq. Back on camera, he said, "The Democrats, of course, see it differently."
"Of course" they do. Not because there are always two sides to every issue, but because the facts are different than Bush claims they are.
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