THE CALL TO SILENCE NOVAK

New York Post ^ | 10-04-03

[Mike Darancette]

Not only that, in outing his wife he outed his wife's cover business, the Brewster-something or other corportation

His wife gave $1,000 to Gore in 1999 listing the cover business. Since this is public information anyone can know.

[Libertina]

Agreed. And IMHO the WH needs tom get out and TEAR THESE PROPAGNDA STORIES APART. Why are they just hanging around saying. ok, investigation. I am so sick of R's not playing hard ball. Why did they let this RAT operative over to investigate Yellow cake anyway? He had no credentials, hates the administration, and spend his time "drinking weet mint tea." Good grief! Doesn't the WH think anything is worth talking about? I am truly flummoxed by republican lack of backbone.

[jwalsh07]

Nice one Jonathan.

[StriperSniper]

This is hard core!

At first I thought this was their editorial, not a letter, with the Post it almost could have been. ;-)

[moodyskeptic]

I agree that Republican silence is infuriating. Only a really bad boxer stands there taking punches while attempting to get back to civil discourse.

GOP: engage the left or lose your momentum.

[denydenydeny]

I've been suspicious of Loftus since his report that his "sources" informed him that Saddam, Uday, and Qusay were killed by an American cruise missile that travelled down a ventilation shaft on the first night of the war.

Since then I take everything he says with a huge grain of salt.

[randita]

Who is John Loftus?

Visit john-loftus.com and read for yourself.

He's had a pretty good track record since 3/19 in his nightly reports on Batchelor and Alexander. He is a registered Democrat, but he is not a partisan. I wouldn't dismiss his comments out of hand.

[autoresponder]

B&A

Batchelor : "lib" Republican; See below re Arnold

Alexander : lib/dem "Arnold is a Nazi, attacked 6 women"

John Loftus : big dem

said Saddamm & kids were killed

self-promoter of his "insider" crud

[randita]

I've listened to Loftus pretty regularly since 3/19 (I'd say 3-4 times a week at least) and do not recall him saying that Uday and Qusay were killed in the decap. strike on 3/19. What he has said is based on British intelligence that saw frantic digging after the strike and a man resembling SH being brought out of the wreckage and loaded into an ambulance. And the intercepted phone call right afterward to Russia begging for a brain surgeon to treat a high ranking Iraqi official.

Loftus never cited comparable or similar intelligence information about the two sons.

[KC_Conspirator]

I am somewhat actually agreeing with you - I hate it when the New York Slimes or the ComPost routinely (and often by the likes of Dana Milbank) smears the Bush administration when some Clintonista Holdover decides to leak lies to them and they do not cite their sources. However, when liberals set the groundrules and then they don't want play by them, then I say go he-double hockey sticks to them.

[Wolverine]

Here are the "8 Violations of Media Objectivity":

Violation #1 Misleading definitions and terminology.
By using terminology and definitions in a way that implies accepted fact, the media injects bias under the guise of objectivity.

Violation #2 Imbalanced reporting.
Media reports frequently skew the picture by presenting only one side of the story.

Violation #3 Opinions disguised as news.
An objective reporter should not use adjectives or adverbs, unless they are part of a quotation. Also, the source for any facts and opinions should be clear from the report, or alternatively it should be stated that source is intentionally undisclosed.

Violation #4 Lack of context.
By failing to provide proper context and full background information, journalists can dramatically distort the true picture.

Violation #5 Selective omission.
By choosing to report certain events over others, the media controls access to information and manipulates public sentiment.

Violation #6 Using true facts to draw false conclusions.
Media reports frequently use true facts to draw erroneous conclusions.

Violation #7 Distortion of facts.
In today's competitive media world, reporters frequently do not have the time, inclination or resources to properly verify information before submitting a story for publication.

Violation #8  Creating news instead of reporting it. Deliberately holding stories until the last minute before an election.

See Media Ethics <http://www.people.vcu.edu/~jcsouth/hotlists/ethics.htm>

[Holden Magroin]

Violation #3 Opinions disguised as news.

Like the recent trend by the big newspapers of having front-page editorials called "news analyses."

[Just mythoughts]

Previously when the lying liberals started throwing their fits, President Bush has responded right to the heart of the matter.

This whole saga might well be about a number of things. The liberals have fought President Bush every step of the way trying to stop the freeing of the people of Iraq.

They have resisted this war as much as Saddam's best, along with France, Germany, and Russia the "UN'ers".

So President Bush may well be wise to stay the course cause it maybe that President Bush is aware of their dirty deeds and they are trying to discredit him to cover for themselves.

[Libertina]

Like you, I believe the WH knows more than I do about the issues...but sometimes - as with all politicians - they get closed off from the citizens. They don't need to be in the mud, but they need to give FACTS FACTS FACTS and REFUTE lies. (Which is basically refuting lies every time a RAT opens it's mouth ;)

[Just mythoughts]

Thank you, had not heard of him, and I do not dismiss anything out of hand until there is proven and tested evidence. Mr. Wilson has given nothing credible, proven or tested.

Remember the former Defense Secretary Cohen running around selling a war carrying that 5lb. sack of sugar, comparing it to anthrax, so what happened to all that anthrax we were told about in 1998?

So what happened to all those biologicals and chemicals that Cohen and Albright told us about? So if it was not there then why did they "LIE" about it to sell a war?

[Just mythoughts]

Overall I agree these liars need to be exposed, however I can't see how anyone in the Bush White House or even Congress could expose what liars they are better than what Mr. Wilson has done.

President Bush would have to spend 24/7 exposing the liberal lies, and he has more important things to get accomplished.

While it appears that things are about to fall apart, there is an investigation being done and seems like there is a great deal of "faith" placed that Novak won't talk. How will they ever know if he spills the beans?

[Libertina]

I don't think President bush should bend so low as to address them, but I believe the White House spokesman should be out everyday speaking. The media will not play it all, but if you give them nothing they make it up. We need to be pro-active. IMHO ;)

[Just mythoughts]

Agree, but seeing as how the liberal pigs are squealing so loudly maybe they are getting stuck in places we can't see.

[Libertina]

Hopefully very painful places ;)

[CyberAnt]

Rush is also the next target!

The inuendo on TV - if he won't say anything .. then he must be involved .. therefore he must be guilty .. because you don't hire a lawyer unless you're guilty. Pitiful.

I still say - Rush could have caught the maid using his computer to make her drug deals. He could have fired her. Why on earth would Rush want to allow her stuff to stay on his computer so people could assume he was using illicit drugs ..??

Secondly .. who was she selling to - could it have been some highly visible DEMOCRATS. And .. did Rush know who these DEMOCRATS were ..??

I find the connection between the National Enquirer who broke the story and David Boies (Gore) to be much more than a coincidence.

I've said all that to say this, I will be stunned to find out Rush is involved. This attack is a down and dirty - right between the eyes stuff .. not just something that happened to leak out. The story is TWO YEARS OLD. Therefore, I am confident this is a planned attack.

However .. I don't see this as a conspiracy by the maid - I think she just got caught. After she was fired and then later arrested, her lawyer found out she had been Rush's maid and it was then decided to take Rush out. It has taken them 2 years to do it.

WHY ..?? WHY NOW ..?? I think Hillary wants to run and she believed she needed to get Rush out of the way (so to speak) before she proceeded.

And .. somebody/Reuters had a report from Palm Beach police saying they DIDN'T HAVE any recordings of Rush. Since the maid contends she wore a wire - then who has tapes of Rush if it's not the police ..??

This whole thing is so stinky - I sure hope Rush finds out what's really going on very soon.