Judith Miller: From the Times to the nuts

[babylonsister]

Judith Miller: From the Times to the nuts
By Alex Pareene



Judith Miller used to be a superstar. She was a major reporter at the New York Times for decades -- at the DC bureau, in Cairo, in Paris, special correspondent to the Persian Gulf, embedded with a special unit in Iraq. She had the best sources. She had amazing scoops. Now she's writing -- on contract, not full-time -- for Newsmax, a goofy right-wing magazine where conservatives you've never heard of (and John Stossel, apparently) report, constantly, that Barack Obama is bad and unpopular. It's a steep fall, and it couldn't have happened to a worse journalist.

Since her early days at the Times, when she inserted CIA misinformation into a piece on Libya, she's always been a tool of power. She was the voice of the Defense Department, embedded at the Times. She was hyping bullshit stories about Iraq's WMD capabilities as far back as 1998, and in the run-up to the war, her front-page scoops were cited by the Bush administration as evidence that Saddam needed to be taken out, right away.

Lying exile grifter Ahmad Chalabi fed her the worst of the nonsense designed to push America into toppling Saddam Hussein (and giving Iraq to him), and she pushed that nonsense into the newspaper of record. She got everything wrong, and for some insane reason, she remained employed at the Times until 2005, when she negotiated her separation from her longtime professional home.

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http://www.salon.com/news/media_criticism/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2010/12/30/judy_miller_newsmax

[H2O Man]

1. How far

she fell!

Recommended.

[babylonsister]

3. And her vaunted reputation!

:nopity:

[H2O Man]

4. May her reputation

rest in pieces.

[babylonsister]

6. !

:rofl:

:hi:

[HowHasItComeToThis]

9. AW GUYS, HOW ELSE CAN SHE MAKE A BUCK, NOW THAT SCOOTER IS NOT THERE

:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[mmonk]

2. Recommended.

All liars should fall from grace.

[marmar]

5. Parroting neocon lies is bad for your health.

:nopity:

[UTUSN]

7. K&R #6 for, she was with the nuts, the ShrubCo nuts, when she was AT the Times. n/t

[gratuitous]

8. I don't think Judith Miller has a conscience or the ability to reflect

But I wonder if, in some small underdeveloped part of her brain, the half-thought begins to form that she could have conducted her career just the slightest bit differently? Unlike Peggy Noonan and a number of others, I don't think Judith Miller will be coming back from the wilderness anytime soon.