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Posted on 10/04/2003 5:02:13 AM PDT by Republican Red
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:16:59 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
October 4, 2003 -- On Thursday, David Kay, the chief U.S. weapons inspector in Iraq, testified before Congress' Intelligence committees on the activities of the Iraq Survey Group (ISG). His remarks are excerpted here.
I WELCOME this opportunity to discuss the progress that the Iraq Survey Group has made in its initial three months of its investigation into Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) programs.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Did they not hear what this man was reporting?
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They follow the (from S. King) credo:
NEVER PUBLISH WHAT YOU BELIEVE,
NEVER BELIEVE WHAT YOU PUBLISH.
What do you expect from a bunch of people who don't even know what "is" is?
We have discovered dozens of WMD-related program activities and significant amounts of equipment that Iraq concealed from the United Nations..
Please read the whole report. The detail on Saddam's missile program is cause enough - and there's far more.
Thank you New York Post!
8 STATEMENT BY DAVID KAY ON THE INTERIM PROGRESS REPORT [Just Cause!]
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No amount of proof is enough for those who refuse to believe. A nice succinct rebuttal to those who froth at the mouth that we have found no WMDs: "Absence of evidence does not imply evidence of absence". And that's being conservative, there is plenty of evidence.
Who the hell would build hundreds of coffee-makers, grinding facilities, filter-paper plants, roasting formulas, coffee mugs, and books about how to produce coffee, without intending to produce coffee? (a) A madman who is dangerously unstable for doing expensive, useless things, (b) A madman who is dangerously unstable for doing expensive, dangerous things. Neither one is good.
These words will go unreported by an out of control media because they do not serve to further their socialist agenda.
Joseph McCarthy was right.
Because Fox has been corrupted with liberalism in the name of "fair and balanced". Conservative commentary (really moderate commentary - the only real conservative on FOX IMO is Cavuto) is good, but a lot of that good is undone by liberals on their news team. Check out the way, for example, that Greta went all-out for Schwarzenegger last night.
Be careful of investing too much trust in any one media source, even Fox. Fox has been moving left since the Tommy Franks took Baghdad.
One of the most important pieces of wisdom I have gained over the years from listening to Rush is to always ask, "Why THIS, and why NOW. "
The second nugget gained is to ALWAYS FOLLOW THE MONEY.
Watching politics and the media is like watching a magician. He deceives by drawing attention away from the hand that is making the switch.
Study hits war views held by Fox fans
By David Folkenflik
Sun Staff
Originally published October 4, 2003
Heavy viewers of the Fox News Channel are nearly four times as likely to hold demonstrably untrue positions about the war in Iraq as media consumers who rely on National Public Radio or the Public Broadcasting System, according to a study released this week by a research center affiliated with the University of Maryland's School of Public Affairs.
"When evidence surfaces that a significant portion of the public has just got a hole in the picture ... this is a potential problem in the way democracy functions," says Clay Ramsay, research director for the Washington-based Program on International Policy Attitudes, which studies foreign-policy issues.
Fox News officials did not return repeated requests yesterday for comment on the study.
Funded by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Ford Foundation, the study was conducted from June through September. It surveyed 3,334 Americans who receive their news from a single media source. Each was questioned about whether he held any of the following three beliefs, characterized by the center as "egregious misperceptions": Saddam Hussein has been directly linked with the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
Weapons of mass destruction have already been found in Iraq.
World opinion favored the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
To date, as measured by government reports and accepted public surveys, each of those propositions is false, according to the center. The Bush administration has argued that evidence will be found of the weapons in Iraq as will direct links between Saddam and the al-Qaida members who planned the 9/11 attacks. But President Bush has been forced to acknowledge that no such proof has surfaced.
Sixty percent of all respondents believed in at least one of the statements. But there were clear differences in perceptions among devotees of the various media outlets.
Twenty-three percent of those who get their news from NPR or PBS believed in at least one of the mistaken claims. In contrast, 80 percent of Fox News viewers held at least one of the three incorrect beliefs.
Among broadcast network viewers there also were differences. Seventy-one percent of those who relied on CBS for news held a false impression, as did 61 percent of ABC's audience and 55 percent of NBC viewers. Fifty-five percent of CNN viewers and 47 percent of Americans who rely on the print media as their primary source of information also held at least one misperception.
The three evening network news shows command the largest audiences, together typically reaching between 25 million and 30 million viewers nightly. But Fox News, the top-rated cable-news outlet, has steadily increased its viewership by offering a blend of hard news and opinionated talk that often takes on a patriotic sheen. Its top show draws more than 2 million viewers nightly.
"Among those who primarily watch Fox, those who pay more attention are more likely to have misperceptions," the report concludes. "Only those who mostly get their news from print media have fewer misperceptions as they pay more attention."
The PIPA study suggests a strong link between people's understanding of the news and its source. That link held true throughout different demographic segments, such as those based on education level, viewing habits, and partisan leanings, Ramsay said.
"It proves that what we're doing is great journalism," says NPR spokeswoman Laura Gross. "We're telling the truth and we let our audience decide."
More information on the study can be found at www. pipa.org
The far left has nothing but contempt for FoxNews and its viewers. This shold show up soon in the NYT or WashPost.
They don't want to. They began those headlines even before the report was released. Incredible, isn't it?
So most of them ran headlines screaming, NO WMDS, whilst buried in the body of the articles--usually at the bottom following long, boring technical passages--they wrote some of what was found. Not all of it, mind you, or even very much of it. Just what would suffice when it became necessary to look innocent and state, "But we did write about it, we didn't lie."
Make no mistake. None of this is inadvertant. A revolution is in progress in this country. The media and the 'rats are as one, and have one goal in common: to put a 'rat back in office in 2004. They will do whatever it takes, and don't for a minute think that the attacks on the people (Rush, Rove, Rice, et al) who are strong voices for the President are coincidental. The object is to remove anyone who can help him, if possible, and discredit all the rest.
I watch portions of Nightline before switching the channel most evenings--just enough to get the gist of what Koppel is up to these days. Last week, it was like a miniseries which might be called "Bush Lied"--it's all they talk about. A subtitle might be, "Get Bush." And they sit there in their studios, claiming the President lied about this, lied about that--and most of what they, themselves, are saying are...lies.
There should be some accountability, but obviously, there is not. The media is a bunch of cowards, hiding behind the skirts of the First Amendment to do their dirty, treasonous work.
I've noticed that when it comes to major headlines, Fox generally runs with the pack. I wonder if it's because they don't do their own research, but just run with the wire stories.
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