Wag The Dog Anyone?

[j2k4]

Originally posted by clocker+4 June 2003 - 08:58--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (clocker @ 4 June 2003 - 08:58)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin--OlderThanDirt@4 June 2003 - 00:00
The nice thing about America is that people will latch onto anything to bitch about ... and by the time the movie airs, we&#39;ll all be bitching about something else anyway.

Actually, I think they&#39;re counting on this phenomonon.
In a couple of months, after the TV movie has aired, you can bet your boots that some intrepid reporter will ask:" But, er, what about the allegations that this whole episode was staged?"

And the response will be:" Why are you dredging those OLD allegations up now? We&#39;ve moved on and have more important thing to worry about&#33;"
Using the passage of time to minimize the relevance/marginalize the doubters of the "official version" seems to be a favorite tactic of this Admin. ( and their apologists in the media). [/b][/quote]
No apologies here.

Just a willingness to assign the question to the same "hold" bin wherein resides the WMD issue, however temporarily.

[clocker]

Originally posted by j2k4@4 June 2003 - 08:15


Just a willingness to assign the question to the same "hold" bin wherein resides the WMD issue, however temporarily.

That would be fine if I didn&#39;t think that "HOLD" was an acronym for "How Old Lies Die".

[OlderThanDirt]

There is a deep resentment toward George W. ... and there&#39;s a lot of justification for it, I suppose. There are still a lot of unanswered questions about the 2000 election. But, not even the mainstream media talks about it very much anymore (this may change next year, though). If Lynch&#39;s memory doesn&#39;t return, the issue may raise its head again ... but will probably subside. The news media is fickle for the "newest" shocker and doesn&#39;t have much interest in prolonging old news (unless it&#39;s active/ongoing news).

A few years ago, you might remember that North Korea was threatening peninsular Armageddon. I was following the story very closely until, one day, some guy became a suspect in his wife&#39;s death ... and drove his Ford Bronco into the history books. For the next few weeks, I had to go to alternate news sites to get information because domestic media had only one topic on their minds -- O.J.

[j2k4]

Originally posted by clocker+4 June 2003 - 09:34--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (clocker @ 4 June 2003 - 09:34)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin--j2k4@4 June 2003 - 08:15


Just a willingness to assign the question to the same "hold" bin wherein resides the WMD issue, however temporarily.

That would be fine if I didn&#39;t think that "HOLD" was an acronym for "How Old Lies Die". [/b][/quote]
Clocker, your astounding mental agility leaves me speechless once again.

&#39;I have met punditry, and it is Clocker&#39;. B)

OTD-

Isn&#39;t it amazing how the media steers the content of news, then acts custodially to remind us at future dates of what is or is not historically relevant to current "events"?

I gave O.J. a few points for originality, but that was all; the only significant event after the murder was the criminal verdict, and what it implied about the reality of the state of our legal system and it&#39;s fallability.
The civil contest was, at best, anticlimactic.

The Lynch story aside, it bothers me when my side drops the rhetorical ball, fudges facts, or engages in otherwise sloppy behavior.
A certain amount of "crossed wire syndrome" is inevitable; must it be endemic?

I&#39;ve said this before, too:
I don&#39;t believe the majority of Americans are hinging their opinion re: Iraq on whether or not we find hard evidence (defined as stockpiled, intact and ready-to-be-used) of WMD; this indicates a genuine tolerance for TRUTH.
Instead, we are subjected to this institutionalized imperative of "fact by executive fiat" practiced by ALL administrations.

Having overdosed on it during the Clinton years, I find it especially abhorrent when my guys do it, to whatever extent.