Bush's WMD 'Joke': Is the Media Still Laughing?

[dogday]

A brief comment at a forum in Washington this week resurrects one of the most shameful episodes in recent media history: The night a roomful of journalists laughed along with a president making fun of the bogus threat that led to a costly war.

By Greg Mitchell

(June 18, 2005) -- Dana Milbank of The Washington Post, in a column on Friday, suggested that the congressional forum the previous day on the Downing Street memos was something of a joke. In his opening sentence he declared that House Democrats “took a trip to the land of make-believe” in pretending that the basement conference room was actually a real hearing room, even importing a few American flags to make it look more official.

Oddly, he seem less interested in the far more serious “make-believe” that inspired the basement session: the administration's fake case for WMDs in Iraq that has already led to the deaths of over 1,700 Americans and tens of thousands of Iraqis. No, Milbank used the valuable real estate of the Post -- its only coverage of the event -- to mock Rep. John Conyers, who arranged the meeting, and his “hearty band of playmates.”

This fun-loving “band” included a mother who had lost her son in Iraq.


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[LynnTheDem]

1. The US media is still chuckling, uh huh.

None of their loved ones are dead, dying or maimed for life because of bush's cute little lie and bush's funny little self-mocking of his cute little lie.

[WLKjr]

2. I just remembered this, why isn't anyone using it

as some sort of proof that he was lying by the fact that he laughed about it?

[joanne]

3. Dana Milbank is a DISGRACE to journalism

How anyone could take him seriously as a "journalist" is beyond me.

And this from the WP... the paper that years ago helped uncover Watergate.

Now they are covering up for the Shrub administration.

Disgraceful.

[obnoxiousdrunk]

4. Looks like Dana

belongs to the Jeff Gannon school of thought.

[cthrumatrix]

5. they clearly have blood on thier hands