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Originally Posted by cairns
Utterly stupidly wrong. The people who were actually on the helicopter caught him and posted the facts on Facebook. Stars and Stripes first published the story. The MSM, reluctantly, followed.
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Okay, ya got me! I didn't do my research and commented from my gut rather than my brain. See, my gut told me that this was just a media feeding (on itself) frenzy rather than an actual National Moment of Seriousness.
The MSM did not "reluctantly" follow. This is an easy story for them, eating one of their own. Williams has no power over anyone's career so they're gobbling him up. Try going after Cheney after some of the sh it he pulled and your lucrative corporate mainstream media career would end overnight*. The MSM is only as "liberal" as its corporate ownership allows it to be. Williams: Easy. Cheney: Don't you dare.
BTW, John Stewart did an excellent piece last night on how the MSM fell into line during the lead-up to the war in Iraq (led by the NYT) yet is burning Williams at the stake now.
*No more Woodward and Bernstein. Cheney and Rummy are Nixon alumni and vowed "never again." Try to get us and you're
we'll eat
you alive.