Anyone catch Brian Williams’ trying to defend Judith Miller today?

[NNN0LHI]

I am paraphrasing here but Imus asked him about all the bogus WMD reporting by Miller and good old Brian starts whining how no reporters had seen any WMD documents and they all were just reporting what they were told to report.

Imus stopped his spiel to remind him that she was doing a bit more than just reporting about WMDs. Imus reminded Brian that Miller was actually promoting the WMD BS in the NYT.

Poor Brian didn't know what to say then. Probably because he is just as guilty of doing the same shit. Save it for the war crimes trials Brian.

Don

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

1. Wow! Imus has been on a roll lately! This is great! Judith Miller

was one of the biggest cheerleaders to lead us to war and she should be tried for treason.

[babylonsister]

2. Norman Solomon from the Institute for

Public Accuracy was just on CSPAN, said the IPA had numerous articles up stating since '02 that there were no WMDs. Perhaps if the media actually did their jobs they'd know that.

[Jon8503]

3. Also, are they supposed to report just what they are told to report

or as a good journalist or investigative reporter, should they dig for the truth? Besides as you say, she went way way beyond and was actually, it appeared anyway, trying to get support for the war for whatever reason.

[Jacobin]

4. He likes to paint 'journalists' as some kind of heroes

Brian, you can put lipstick on this pig, but its still going to be a pig

[seemslikeadream]

5. Here Brian the bucket is yours now

http://www.bartcop.com.nyud.net:8090/judith-miller-pail.jpg

[KharmaTrain]

6. So Speaks Brian "GE" Williams

Now which Williams is this? The one who stood in the Superdome and became the "man of the people?"...demanding journalists report what they see, not what the government tells us? Of course that came after Faux and CNN had jumped to huge ratings and his network was trying to make their new poster boy look good.

General Electric stood to make billions in the Iraq invasion and it's all but been exposed that Jack Welch and Robert Wright put the pro-war spin into the news coverage of that invasion and it's overall reporting of this regime.

Williams was chosen cause he proudly admitted he was a Rush listener and earned his stripes in his nightly inquisitions of Bill Clinton during the inquisition. Now they're trying to re-cast this moron as a "journalist". Looks like Imus got his number!

[NNN0LHI]

7. This may explain Brian's defensiveness this morning? He was part of it

http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20030623&s=baker

'Scoops' and Truth at the Times
by RUSS BAKER

{from the June 23, 2003 issue}

<snip>Here are typical Miller headlines from May:

May 21: "U.S. Analysts Link Iraq Labs to Germ Arms"

May 12: "Radioactive Material Found at a Test Site Near Baghdad"

May 11: "Trailer Is a Mobile Lab Capable of Turning Out Bioweapons, a Team Says"

May 9: "G.I.'s Search, Not Alone, In the Cellar of Secrets"

May 8: "U.S. Aides Say Iraqi Truck Could Be a Germ-War Lab"



A Miller appearance with CNBC's Brian Williams during the pre-invasion propaganda campaign shows how the game is played. Here's the intro:


Page one in this morning's New York Times, a report by Judith Miller that Iraq has ordered a million doses of an anti-germ warfare antidote. The assumption here is that Iraq is preparing to use such weapons....

WILLIAMS: Iraq's attempt to buy large quantities of the antidote in question was first reported by veteran New York Times correspondent and Pulitzer Prize winner Judith Miller in this morning's edition of the newspaper. She is also, by the way, author of the recent book on terrorism called Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War. And she is with us from the Times newsroom in New York tonight.

Miller then explains that "what worried people" was that although the drug in question has civilian uses, it's unlikely that Saddam would order a million doses for benign purposes. "That really got heads up in Washington," she tells Williams. The anchor asks her if the "Western assumption" is that Saddam is planning to protect his military with the antidote. "Right, exactly," she replies. Consider: The highest priority of the Bush Administration was to persuade the world that Saddam Hussein constituted a grave threat. It found indications of that threat and gave them to Miller, who rushed to break the story.

[NNN0LHI]

8. Kick this mutha too n/t