Downing Street Memo: No Smoking Gun
Today's Washington Post had a great article that tied into my last post about smoking guns and blogs. The blogosphere, and Rep. John Conyers, have been making a lot of noise lately about the infamous Downing Street Memo. This memo, taken from minutes in a meeting between British and U.S. officials, says that intelligence was "fixed" to make a case for war.
Today, Michael Kinsley writes a great article debunking the Downing Street Memo saying that it is NOT the smoking gun people claim.
Among Kinsley's points:
1) The Downing Street Memo offered no specifics, just an allegation that intelligence was "fixed."
2) MSM newspapers covered the rise the war well before the Downing Street Memo:
a) LA Times calls Iraq war "much planned for" in 2002!
b) NYT editorial called war "inevitable."
c) WSJ editorial claims that "the drums of war beat louder."
All of this happened in 2002. So while, the blogosphere rants and raves about the Downing Street Memo, the MSM refuses to cover it.
Why? They already have.
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I read the same editorial in the Post today. I developed a similar question, but I also went furthur and posed a question as this issue relates to the Sunstein and Jenkins articles. However, the piece was interesting. How did bloggers miss the mark with this old news?
I think bloggers tried to make the facts fit their ideology - when reality seemed to run counter to that.
Now the MSM is laying the smack down on them with cold, hard facts that run counter to their political bent.
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