Friday, August 10, 2007



Sound familiar?

Day After Gordon's Latest 'NYT' Front-Pager --
Bush and Cheney Threaten Iran


NEW YORK One day after The New York Times placed Michael R. Gordon's latest story about Iranian weapons allegedly blowing up large numbers of Americans in Iraq, President Bush warned that action might be taken against that country. McClatchy Newspapers meanwhile warned in a Web headline, "Cheney Urging Strikes on Iran."

It was reminiscent of the day in September 2002 when Cheney and other officials went on Sunday talk shows and touted the now-infamous Gordon-Judith Miller front-pager in the Times on the "aluminum tubes" in Iraq and the possible "mushroom cloud" on the horizon. The Times, and Gordon specifically, have been giving the unproven Iranian IED charges far more prominent play than any other major news outlet.

Meanwhile, a senior U.S. military officer told the Los Angeles Times that Saudi nationals compose 45 percent of foreign fighters in Iraq who actively target U.S. forces. Yet there has been relatively little media coverage, and few statements by U.S. military and officials, about this.

4 Comments:

At 10:08 AM, Blogger Paddy said...

And so it goes.

 
At 10:36 AM, Blogger Kirsten said...

I'm not shocked at all.

 
At 11:09 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Here we go again.

 
At 12:14 PM, Blogger GottaLaff said...

Exactly right. Per my post from yesterday about Gordon's piece based one unnamed uncorroborated source: Bush can now quote Gordon and run with it, as he did with Judy Miller's stuff.

A vicious circle. Vicious being the key word here.

Great post, Padlock.

 

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