Why would a BRITISH reporter & BRITISH newspaper get BRITISH usage wrong?

[DemBones DemBones]

In your dreams, Woolsey and Kay! The meaning of the DSM is clear.

:rant:

[flpoljunkie]

1. Here is Michael Smith answering the question about the meaning of "fixed"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion...

Fairfax, Va.: Do you expect we will see more leaks which further corroborate the assertion that Bush lied to justify the neoconservatives' aggressive stance against Iraq? Also, what are your thoughts on the semantics argument of the Iraq war supporters (i.e., in the U.K., "fixed around" doesn't mean what you think it means...)?

Michael Smith: There are number of people asking about fixed and its meaning. This is a real joke. I do not know anyone in the UK who took it to mean anything other than fixed as in fixed a race, fixed an election, fixed the intelligence. If you fix something, you make it the way you want it. The intelligence was fixed and as for the reports that said this was one British official. Pleeeaaassee! This was the head of MI6. How much authority do you want the man to have? He has just been to Washington, he has just talked to George Tenet. He said the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy. That translates in clearer terms as the intelligence was being cooked to match what the administration wanted it to say to justify invading Iraq. Fixed means the same here as it does there. More leaks? I do hope so and the more Blair and Bush lie to try to get themselves off the hook the more likely it is that we will get more leaks.

[DemBones DemBones]

2. Thanks, I had seen that and everyone should read it.

We've also had British DUers who've posted their agreement on the meaning of "fixed" in the context used in the DSM.

The freepers will try to spin this but if the media are at all fair. . . :eyes:

LET'S E-MAIL 'HARDBALL" AND TELL THEM TO CLARIFY THAT THE "BRITISH USAGE" EXCUSE IS BOLLOCKS!!!

[flpoljunkie]

3. Yes, let's all email them.

[sundancekid]

5. when I click on the link I get the "forbidden" message below == HELP!

Forbidden
Your client is not allowed to access the requested object.

[Clark2008]

6. I got that, too.

Maybe we were banned for writing so harshly about Dana Milbank.

:rofl:

[togiak]

4. He wouldn't

but that doesn't matter to the Right Wingers...they are going to believe what they want to believe no matter what..... there is nothing that you can do to convince them that the memo is real and that it says what it says....

these people are saying that the Schiavo autopsy proves that she was aware of what was happening to her. There's no convincing these people of anything.