Dear Dana:
I have watched with stunned horror as you have spiraled into an appalling attack on anyone and everyone "liberal" even though you, until now, have seemed to be fair in your writing and television appearances. I cannot find any rational reason for your disparaging comments ranging from the level of a 5 year old name calling, example "wing nut" to some Novak type slash and burn hysteria using terms like "anti-Semite".
Let me say that having both spoken with the actual reporter in Britain who broke the DSM stories and having gotten a second source of confirmation, it seems to me that anyone with even a slight interest in truth would want to have honest discourse about these memos, minutes, etc. Be that as it may, your statements regarding the hearings were disparaging to the mothers of fallen soldiers who were forced into a basement, because the Republican leadership did not allow an honest dialogue to be had in a "tax funded" room visible by the light of day.
A few mothers and father alike stood in a tiny room, while the rest waited outside or forced out of the area altogether. Do you find that amusing? Are you saying that the grieving parents forced to sit at DNC headquarters because the GOP leadership wanted to hide them away -the way they hid the coffins of their children - are "crazy" and "leftist"? That is one hell of a claim.
Michael Isikoff also confirmed the credibility of these documents as did your own paper, as did Andrea Mitchell of NBC, MSNBC, as well as a plethora of sources, papers, etc. Clearly there is reason here to have hearings, unless you think executive power run amok is appropriate. Do you think that because you and yours see this as "old news" that we, the American public, should have somehow telepathically picked up such information? Do you think the mantra from you and yours that "we knew this" somehow excuses you? I find your behavior and cavalier attitude toward this much death and destruction beyond offensive. I find it it astonishingly inhuman and as a journalist, I find your attitude incredibly inappropriate.
Why would the leading Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee be another target of your smear attack? What has this man done other than want to hold open hearings about very serious and disturbing issues? What about the tactics of the GOP in holding 11 consecutive floor votes at that precise time forcing the panel of Democrats to have to come and go from basement to House floor to basement again?
Dana, do you know how many people signed the letter demanding questions and how many members of Congress did so as well? Do you know? These facts are blatantly "adjusted" in your piece (s). You seem to have no idea why the meeting was in the basement, who was present and for what reason, or what the actual discussion was about. What on earth could have prompted this type of inaccurate reporting?
Yet instead of taking responsibility for your serious lack of ethics, you begin a smear hunt.
Using terms like "anti-Semitism" to describe Jews has got to be the most journalistically profane thing I have ever seen. I am a Jew. I signed that letter. I reported on those documents and I am a supporter of Democrats.com. Are you telling me I am anti-Semitic?
I am sure my experience as a Jew behind the iron curtain is of little value to you, but let me assure you of something, the majority of anti-Semitism I see is coming from the capital, where a handful of corrupt individuals have made religion a game to be had, a sport even.
By the way, the other member group of the "Semite" team is being tortured in camps all over the world. In case you might have missed this fact, Muslims are also Semites.
Democrats.com is made up of several hundred thousand members, a great many of whom are Jews and Muslims. Your remarks are outrageous. Your reporting is false and negligent and you seem to have a very fixed agenda. Perhaps having served with Jeff Gannon for two years in the White House press jaugernaut, your ability to be an ethical and honest reporter has vanished and all that is left are some marching orders and the ability to blindly follow them.
Dana, you owe everyone involved an apology: to the parents of the soldiers lost; to the members of Congress forced into a basement; to the 541, 000 citizens of this country who signed a letter demanding answers; and to the several hundred of thousands members of Democrats.com who have become your latest targets.
What Mr. McGovern said was taken out of context, misunderstood, but mostly twisted to serve a less than ethical agenda. Is this the new policy for the Washington Post? Attack Newsweek for correct reporting and responsible corrections, then play the religion card when your own reporting is so false? You owe an apology to everyone involved and the Washington Post owes everyone an apology for its own negligence in "assuming we all knew" about the DSM, lack of WMD, and the rape of children at Abu. We might know now, but that has more to do with the alternative press than it does with the corporate press.
Very sad to see such a distinguished paper become such a typical talking point.
LA
check out Dana's attack on Democrats.com
http://democrats.com/milbank
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