Another blatant sign that the media is not liberal. Check out this headline >>>>

[Roland99]

US troops seize gang 'smuggling bombs from Iran'
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=070427185225.eephgeaz&show_article=1


So, judging from that headline which, arguably, is what many people stop at these days when perusing the web for their news, it would appear that, as a statement of fact, bombs were being smuggled from Iran. BUT, let's look at the first paragraph:

US forces on Friday detained four members of a gang suspected of smuggling armour-piercing bombs from Iran to Iraq and sending back militants for "terrorist training", the military said.

So, right off the bat the story calls the accuracy of its own headline into question.

And, the rest of the article goes on about statements made in a Pentagon release. No questioning of the accuracy, no asking for any proof, no second-guessing. Just acceptance as fact.


That, ladies and gents, are what we're faced with as this administration lights the fires and kicks the tires as they prepare for yet another disastrous war.

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. "a Pentagon release" Military flatulence?

[Roland99]

2. HA!

:)

[patrice]

3. I'll bet that happens lots. Watch also, how often you hear and see

references to Bush's veto of the appropriations that somehow fail to mention that the withdrawal timeline in NON-BINDING. It's almost an entirely different fact without the word "non-binding".

[Roland99]

5. Oh, we can't hold King George to account for ANYTHING. Oh NOOO!

Can't have that.


Damn that liberal media!

[patrice]

6. That might cause people to question how things are!!!

Your guy DK did Well last night. I hope Mike Gravel sticks around for even just a few more rounds; he provides context for Kucinich.

If this party looks like it's going to nominate from the right end of the spectrum, I'm thinking of being there, outside the convention that is, to demonstrate support for Kucinich.

[Roland99]

7. Wasn't it Chomsky who said this country needs someone like Kucinich but doesn't realize it?

[patrice]

8. We need Kucinich and Gravel. nm

[Raksha]

4. So if someone walks past a newsstand in a hurry--

say, rushing to catch a bus--and they happen to glance at the headline, U.S. troops seize gang 'smuggling bombs from Iran' they might not even notice the quotation marks. And maybe if they never get around to reading the article, they are left with the impression that this is an established fact, i.e. that there are in fact Iranian gangs smuggling bombs into Iraq.

That's deliberate deception, and therefore totally evil.