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Israel at War Watch: Fauxtography FLAP
Ray Patnaude writes: Thanks for the kind words about my illustration for Glenn’s article today. That image, like all illustrations at TCS Daily are done by me- Ray Patnaude, Art Director for TCS (except when I am on vacation and such). I’m glad you liked it, it was a fun challenge to try to deliberately do *really*, comically bad Photoshop, leaving stray pixels everywhere, and sloppy cutout lines. I am particularly proud of the checkered Photoshop background visible behind some replicated smoke. And of course Mickey’s pose perfectly mocks Professional House-Got-Knocked-Down Woman’s.
TCS: Don’t Trust If They Won’t Verify
Once again, fake news is in the news, as it turns out that many moving stories of carnage in Lebanon were not only moving, but, well, fake. This raises major questions about the future of the news business, and offers a significant threat to free expression. As Tim Rutten observed in the Los Angeles Times.
Trust but verify is true in nuclear negotiations and journalism.
President Reagan’s words were never more true:
It’s still trust but verify. It’s still play, but cut the cards. It’s still watch closely. And don’t be afraid to see what you see.
Flap is pleased that the blogosphere is keeping the media manipulators, governments,terrorists and the propagandists honest.
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NSA Surveillance Leak Case Watch: Eavesdropping and the 2004 Presidential Election
New York Times: Eavesdropping and the Election: An Answer on the Question of Timing
THE NEW YORK TIMES’S Dec. 16 article that disclosed the Bush administration’s warrantless eavesdropping has led to an important public debate about the once-secret program. And the decision to write about the program in the face of White House pressure deserved even more praise than I gave it in a January column, which focused on the paper’s inadequate explanation of why it had “delayed publication for a year.â€
Long and short of it Bill Keller LIED.
Let’s see political manipulation of national security leaks…….
Credibility of Keller and the New York Times = Sub ZERO.
And these MSM types wonder why folks are voting with their feet and canceling subscriptions.
Captain Ed has a longer analysis.
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Global War on Terror Watch: Recipients of “LEAKS†May be Prosecuted Under the Espionage Act
Global War on Terror Watch: Bill Keller on Face the Nation
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Global War on Terror Watch: The New York Times SWIFT Protest
Michelle Malkin and Allah have the details.
Bet, it doesn’t make page one tomorrow……
Update:
Video is now available and more photos here.
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Global War on Terror Watch: One If By Land…
Global War on Terror Watch: New York Times Protest in Washington D.C. Today
Global War on Terror Watch: Bill Keller on Face the Nation
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Daily Kos Watch: Maryscott O’Connor – “Something is Rotten in Blogmark”
Maryscott O’Connor says her liberal Web log, My Left Wing, is “one long, sustained scream.â€
Now she is screaming at Markos Moulitsas “Screw Them†Zuniga. (H/t Ace)
Go here and read it if you want some early evening whine.
Allah and Ace both weigh into the NUTroots.
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Left Wing Blogosphere Watch: The LEFT, Online and UNHINGED
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Global War on Terror Watch: New York Times Protest in Washington D.C. Today – The Photos
Michelle Malkin: DISSENT IS PATRIOTIC, II
It was a small, but stalwart crowd outside the D.C. offices of the NY Times this afternoon. Free Republic co-organizer Kristinn Taylor told me he wasn’t aware of any Times reporters or photographers covering the event outside their doorstep. Lots of spirited signs and chanting from a couple dozen protesters–plus befuddled questions from MSM types who don’t understand why the repeat offenders at the Times are being singled out. We’ll have video later at Hot Air.
And just in a photo of Malkin v. Wonkette
Michelle Malkin stares down Ana Marie Cox (the former Wonkette). Captain Ed says he always bets on the fighter wearing the largest earrings.
A small crowd but important none the less. Maybe if someone had protested before the 1983 Beirut bombing two hundred plus Americans would still be alive.
The next protest will be in New York City: Main NYC offices of the Times is scheduled for July 10, 5pm Eastern, 229 West 43rd Street.
Stay tuned for video and more……
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Global War on Terror Watch: One If By Land…
Global War on Terror Watch: New York Times Protest in Washington D.C. Today
Global War on Terror Watch: Bill Keller on Face the Nation
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Global War on Terror Watch: Washington Post Editor Admitted Newspaper Published “LEAK” Cost American Lives
NewsBusters,org: WashPost Publisher Admitted Media Leak To Blame for Marine Barracks Bombing
Katherine Graham, the late publisher of the Washington Post, presided over the paper as it brought down the Nixon administration with Watergate. She has been labeled one of the most influential women of the 20th century. But in a 1986 speech, she admitted that the media were to blame for bringing down the U.S. Marine Barracks in Beirut. The 1983 terrorist attack killed 241 servicemen.
The U.S. had broken the code used by the terrorists to communicate. When that information was leaked to the media, the code was no longer used, and five months later, 241 Marines lost their lives.
From Safeguarding Our Freedoms As We Cover Terrorist Acts
Tragically, however, we in the media have made mistakes. You may recall that in April 1983, some 60 people were killed in a bomb attack on the U.S. embassy in Beirut. At the time, there was coded radio traffic between Syria, where the operation was being run, and Iran, which was supporting it. Alas, one television network and a newspaper columnist reported that the U.S. government had intercepted the traffic. Shortly thereafter the traffic ceased. This undermined efforts to capture the terrorist leaders and eliminated a source of information about future attacks. Five months later, apparently the same terrorists struck again at the Marine barracks in Beirut; 241 servicemen were killed.
This kind of result, albeit unintentional, points up the necessity for full cooperation wherever possible between the media and the authorities. When the media obtains especially sensitive information, we are willing to tell the authorities what we have learned and what we plan to report. And while reserving the right to make the final decision ourselves, we are anxious to listen to arguments about why information should not be aired.
And, so, Flap asks Bill Keller again, how many Americans have to die?
Maybe if Keller is ever interviewed by a non-MSM media source he can give the American people his answer?
Hopefully, Patterico will get to ask the Editor of the Los Angeles Times the same question.
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Global War on Terror Watch: One If By Land…
Global War on Terror Watch: New York Times Protest in Washington D.C. Today
Global War on Terror Watch: Bill Keller on Face the Nation
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Global War on Terror Watch: One If By Land…
Graphic Courtesy of Powerline reader Les Baitzer.Sad but TRUE……..
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Meet The Press Watch: Washington Post’s Dana Priest Takes a “CHEAP SHOT” at Bill Bennett
Expose The Left: Post’s Dana Priest Attacks Bill Bennett In Response To NY Times’ SWIFT Story (VIDEO)
Dana Priest, who was obviously born without shame, personally attacked Bill Bennett this morning’s edition of Meet the Press. Priest compared the New York Times running the SWIFT story to casino gambling, a problem Bennett used to have.
The video is here: VIDEO – .WMV
Flap is positive that Bennett never admitted to having a “gambling” problem nor that his gambling (mainly high stakes video poker) ever place his family in financial peril. The Washington Monthly, a lefty journal, outed Bennett for supposed hypocrisy on writing The Book of Virtues and not being virtuous himself.
Flap enjoys casino gambling and as a Catholic, like Bennett, games of chance are not sinful in a religious sense.
It was shameful what Dana Priest did. Playing video poker with your own money is not the same as “outing” classified secret government counterterrorism information and,in turn, winning a Pulitzer Prize for it.
Flap’s suggestion to Priest is to confine herself to the issues and lay off the disgraceful personal ad hominem attacks.
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Global War on Terror Watch: New York Times Protest in Washington D.C. Today
Michelle Malkin: DISSENT IS PATRIOTIC
Reminder that the all-American protest outside the NYTimes offices in Washington, D.C., is on today:
Noon at 1627 I St. N.W.
Washington, D.C.More details here.
If you are in the D.C. area head out there and send Flap some photos……
Michelle and Bryan will be carrying this over at Hot Air, so stay tuned…….
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Global War on Terror Watch: Bill Keller on Face the Nation
Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger (left) presents Bill Keller of The New York Times, with the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
Exose the Left: Keller: ‘If You’re Under The Impression That The Press Is Neutral’, ‘That Couldn’t Be More Wrong’ (VIDEO)
New York Times executive editor Bill Keller appeared on Face the Nation to defend his treasonous decision to publish information about the SWIFT program, which tracked terrorists’ banking accounts.
Keller attempted to play the sympathy card, saying the public doesn’t know when the NY Times DOES NOT publish sensitive information. If that wasn’t disgusting enough, Keller continued his defense and summed up the leak as “one man’s breach of security is another man’s public relations.â€
As if that wasn’t disgusting enough; Keller continues to amaze us when he is asked for his closing thoughts about the incident as we begin to celebrate Independence Day:
Ian’s video is here: VIDEO – .WMV
Watch it all for a stomach turning experience.
Bill Keller is a LIBERAL SANCTIMONIOUS HORSES ASS.
The Wall Street Journal calls home out with Fit and Unfit to Print
Mr. Keller’s argument that the terrorists surely knew about the Swift monitoring is his own leap of faith. The terror financiers might have known the U.S. could track money from the U.S., but they might not have known the U.S. could follow the money from, say, Saudi Arabia. The first thing an al Qaeda financier would have done when the story broke is check if his bank was part of Swift.
Just as dubious is the defense in a Times editorial this week that “The Swift story bears no resemblance to security breaches, like disclosure of troop locations, that would clearly compromise the immediate safety of specific individuals.” In this asymmetric war against terrorists, intelligence and financial tracking are the equivalent of troop movements. They are America’s main weapons.
Which brings us back to the New York Times. We suspect that the Times has tried to use the Journal as its political heatshield precisely because it knows our editors have more credibility on these matters.
As Alexander Bickel wrote, the relationship between government and the press in the free society is an inevitable and essential contest. The government needs a certain amount of secrecy to function, especially on national security, and the press in its watchdog role tries to discover what it can. The government can’t expect total secrecy, Bickel writes, “but the game similarly calls on the press to consider the responsibilities that its position implies. Not everything is fit to print.” The obligation of the press is to take the government seriously when it makes a request not to publish. Is the motive mainly political? How important are the national security concerns? And how do those concerns balance against the public’s right to know?
The problem with the Times is that millions of Americans no longer believe that its editors would make those calculations in anything close to good faith. We certainly don’t. On issue after issue, it has become clear that the Times believes the U.S. is not really at war, and in any case the Bush Administration lacks the legitimacy to wage it.
Bill Keller have lost all credibility. The New York Times and their minions are scrambling on the TV talk shows to rationalize their decision. The public is NOT with them and will vote with their feet and walk away from buying their newspapers and advertising their products/services. Bankruptcy for the New York Times would not be too good for a pompous ass like Keller and his Publisher Arthur Sulzberger.
Perhaps Mr. Keller has been listening to his boss, Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr., who in a recent commencement address apologized to the graduates because his generation “had seen the horrors and futility of war and smelled the stench of corruption in government.
“Our children, we vowed, would never know that. So, well, sorry. It wasn’t supposed to be this way,” the publisher continued. “You weren’t supposed to be graduating into an America fighting a misbegotten war in a foreign land. You weren’t supposed to be graduating into a world where we are still fighting for fundamental human rights,” and so on. Forgive us if we conclude that a newspaper led by someone who speaks this way to college seniors has as a major goal not winning the war on terror but obstructing it.
How can this dynamic duo even pretend to use the First Amendment for their misdeeds? And blame the Bush Administration for being embarassed that people leak to the press? Or government abuse or secrecy?
How do you spell OVER THE TOP BIAS?
Among the program’s successes was the capture of an Al Qaeda operative
known as Hambali, believed to be the mastermind of the 2002 bombing of
a Bali resort, several officials said.Blogosphere:
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Global War on Terror Watch: Hugh Hewitt Vs. Eric Lichtblau on CNN Reliable Sources
Global War on Terror Watch: New York and Los Angeles Times – “When Do We Publish a Secret?â€
Michael Ramirez on the New York Times Publishing U.S. Anti-Terror Secrets
Global War on Terror Watch: House Resolution 895 Passes 227-183
Global War on Terror Watch: House Resolution 895 – The House Debates
Global War on Terror Watch: House Resolution 895 – Redux
Global War on Terror Watch: House Resolution 895
Global War on Terror Watch: Michael Gerson Shames Media for Revealing SWIFT Anti-Terror Program
Global War on Terror Watch: Piling on the New York Times?
Global War on Terror Watch: Eric Lichtblau of the New York Times Explains SWIFT Scoop
Los Angeles Times Watch: Patterico and Danziger Dump the Los Angeles Dog Trainer
Global War on Terror Watch: Dear Mr. Keller – Why?
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