What ever happened to the most important story on earth?

JWR ^ | 3-4-05 | Jonah Goldberg

[FlyLow]

Remember al-Qaqaa? This was the massive cache of explosives that American forces failed to secure after the fall of Saddam. In the final week of the presidential campaign it was The Most Important Story on Earth.

The New York Times splashed the news on its front page and didn't stop splashing it for a week. In all, the Times ran 16 stories and columns about al-Qaqaa, plus seven anti-Bush letters to the editor on the subject over an eight-day period. Editorial boards across the country hammered the "outrage" for days. It led all the news broadcasts. It became the central talking point of the Kerry campaign, with John Kerry bellowing his indignation at the administration's incompetence at every stump stop. Maureen Dowd wrote a column about it, titled "White House of Horrors."

[Red Badger]

al-Qaqaa was ALL KA-KA......

[anniegetyourgun]

The usual 'all caca' we get from the NYTimes. They can't be trusted.

[syriacus]

Nice column, thanks for posting it.

[Red Badger]

caca de vaca.....

[Publius6961]

Well, when losers are desperate and beyond hope of winning, they'll use anything.
Did they really believe anyone would buy that crap?
Yeah, the hard core DUmmies.

But in the end, it made no difference.

They ran out of time before they could issue the press release about Bush eating puppies for breakfast...

[ClearCase_guy]

Very nice piece. MSM bias. You see it in

what they choose to report,
what they choose not to report, and in
how they report the stuff that makes the cut.

[Redgirl]

I used to LOL every time I heard Rush say, "Al Qaqaa".

Maybe the MSM realized they were insulting and degrading the troops and they should kill the story. Doubt it, though.

Their claim of questioning W's judgement and not the troops was such a crock of Shiite!

[Brilliant]

Yep. But it turned out to be false. Imagine that.

[Sloth]

Excellent article. The media's bias is becoming more and more transparent these days.

[The Old Hoosier]

Bush Bad. New York Times good.

[Red Badger]

Bush eating puppies for breakfast...

Bush doesn't eat puppies for breakfast, but he does eat liberal Demokratz' lunch........

[Sax]

The biggest story on Earth simply dissappeared right after Nov 1. Not a single mention in the Times since then. Biased reporting?.....

Also, "The frightening multi-author article, which dropped like manna from heaven for the Kerry campaign, couldn't find room to mention that the 380 tons of missing explosives constituted a fairly small fraction of the 400,000 tons of explosives and weapons that had been either destroyed or secured from more than 10,000 sites."

Ok, that's 00.095% that may or may not have slipped into the cracks. That's pretty sad when that was all the Dems could point at - "Hey you guys may or may not have missed 00.0095 of the explosives - that's incompetent." Too bad Kerry missed 100% of idea of making a stand for what you believe is right.

[Red Badger]

The NYT should be eating a main course of crow followed by a huge dessert of humble pie..........

[The Real Eddie01]

not that you need my approval but...

nice.

[The Real Eddie01]

not that you need my approval but...

nice.

[Red Badger]

Martha Stewart's got a new magazine coming out:

MARTHA STEWART'S CONFINED LIVING!.......