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September 18, 2004

MSM: We're Incompetent AND Biased, Dammit!

Please help me! CBS, The Boston Globe, and The LA Times are holding me hostage. They've got a gun to my head, and they're telling me that if I don't admit that they are BOTH incompetent AND transparently biased they're going to shoot!

Or that's how it feels, anyway.

Growing up in the '70s and '80s there were two news programs that had my utmost confidence: Nolton Nash's nightly "The National", on CBC, and "60 Minutes" on CBS.

That's where they started out.

Not having watched 60 Minutes or CBS News regularly in years, I no longer had strong feelings about them, but would have given them the benefit of the doubt.

That's when they and the other MSM thugs took me hostage.

CBS bases its recent story on fakes so bad they're not worthy of the word "forgeries," and that suggests incompetence. Then they defend it by trotting out handwriting analysts, typewriter repairmen, and computer programmers who seem, all together, to have about 0.000236 percent of a clue.

Incompetence again.

Then they publish a statement by another expert intended to shore up their story, only this gentleman is unfamiliar with the words "typeface" or "typewritten," writing instead "typed-written" and "typed-face." No one who has ever worked, even briefly, in a modern office in which documents are printed would rely on that gentleman to authenticate documents.

That his statement was not only accepted but published by CBS indicates a level of incompetence on CBS's part that makes Inspector Clouseau look like Sherlock Holmes.

A couple of days ago it came out that CBS had also asked two other document examiners to look at their fake memos, and that both had expressed reservations and that neither had authenticated them. CBS not only ran with the story despite this, it never mentioned their concerns.

That is NOT incompetence. That is willful deception. Since it happened BEFORE the story aired, it cannot be chalked up to ass-covering after the memos were revealed as fakes. They did it in advance and that can only mean that they were so suffused with bias that it was leaking out of their pores. (Can you think of another explanation?)

The LATimes, the Boston Globe and others have tried, at times, to come to CBS's rescue after the fact, and their stories, too, have been ridiculously biased.

My question is: How can they not know how corrupt and idiotic they look?

Anyway, they can put the gun down now. I'm convinced they ARE both corrupt and biased to the core as well as incompetent to a degree I have seldom seen in my life.

Posted by Andrew Coulson at September 18, 2004 09:38 AM | TrackBack
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