Peter Arnett, Cretinous Liar

Media Research Center ^ | April 2, 2003 | Brent Bozell III

[scholar]

Tailwind scandal--??

Could this be the Navy "Tailhook" scandal?--or is there a scandal I have missed?

[Joe Bonforte]

No. Tailwind is different from Tailhook. Tailwind involved a story that was supposedly from the Vietnam War. The US supposedly used nerve gas in a mission to kill American defectors.

It was broadcast by CNN, and turned out to be mostly fabricated. CNN retracted the story, and though the leftist producer (named April Oliver) continues to insist that it's true, the evidence in favor of fabrication is irrefutable. You can read more about it here and here.

[VRWC_minion]

He said opposition to the war was increasing, which was false when he said it, and is false still.

There is increasing opposition in intensity just as there is increasing support.

[VRWC_minion]

"It is clear that within the United States there is growing challenge to President Bush about the conduct of the war and also opposition to the war.

I dug up the exact quote and if we decode it as we have learned to do with Clinton you will see that its true

First, at the time there was a "growing challenge" about the "conduct of the war". The news cycle prior to that day had 24 hour crying that we were bogged down and that our battle plan had failed. So there certainly was a "growing challenge" . Second, the sentence he spoke was two parts, the second part being and also opposition to the war. It can be read many ways. The word "growing" modified the word "challenge" and did not necessarily modify the second sentence. When I first read it, it said to me that there was just opposition, not "growing" opposition. Even so, if the he never clarified what was the opposition. There can be at least two types of opposition. One to the war in general and one to the method of conducting the war. In the context of his statement its most reasonable to me that he was refering to the opposition to the conduct of the war and not the war itself. On that score he was reporting what our own reporter were reporting.

[William McKinley]

That is not the case.

[VRWC_minion]

That is not the case.

Sure it is. The Arab world is increasing.

[Wondervixen]

The Arnett mystique is now exposed as the closely protected fraud it always was.

Next up: Someone dig out the real, birth certificate name of that other fraud born of Gulf War I fame, WOLF BLITZER...I've got money on it being "Homer Lipschitz".

[Wondervixen]

>>He called the situation "bizarre," noting, "I was fired on the 'Today' show, the most popular morning program."

Maybe in the Dave Garroway/J.Fred Muggs days. In these days, FOX & Friends whips Matt Lauer and his trained monkey...what's her name...oh yeah, PERKY KATIE.