Comments on: The MSM Drops the Ball. Again.

By: spoots

spoots — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 22:20:37 +0000

suek: "Just doing the work Americans won’t do????"

In American newspaper owners' race to the bottom, investigative reporting often gets axed.

J: "the MSM"

Why use that phrase here? FoxNews, WashTimes and Rush Limbaugh failed to break the story, too. Are they part of "the MSM"? I always understood that phrase to mean "Democrat-leaning", no? Bloggers didn't break it, either. It doesn't surprise me that a British newspaper looked into the dealings of a British billionaire first.

By: suek

suek — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:56:45 +0000

"Why is it a British newspaper that’s introducing me to Auchi…"

Just doing the work Americans won't do????

By: Jimmie

Jimmie — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:45:50 +0000

You'll notice how little those stories tie him to Obama when there surely seemed to be a much closer connection.

Please don't bore me. You prove your point by bringing up those pictures. They would indeed bore me because I've seen them prominently in many MSM reports over the past six years. Would that Obama received the same traetment.

By: spoots

spoots — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 03:43:01 +0000

J: "Why is it a British newspaper that’s introducing me to Auchi…?"

This is just speculation, but maybe because you don't read the NYT?
http://query.nytimes.com/beta/search/query?query=…

I love that Saddam angle, really cute. From Wikipedia, we also learn:

"Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II granted him his Coat of Arms in 2004… He was also awarded the Ponitifical Order of St. Sylvester Pope and Martyr by John Paul II in 2004."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadhmi_Auchi
Dangerous and evil characters!

I won't bore you with the picture of Rumsfeld shaking Saddam's hand…