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paineinthearse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-02-05 11:02 AM
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If only Sy Hersh knew the half of it.
Matt Taibbi imagines a discussion between Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Under-Secretary Douglas Feith upon reading Seymour Hersh's recent New Yorker article about Iran.

(New York Press)
http://www.nypress.com/18/5/news&columns/taibbi.cfm


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11cents Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-02-05 12:42 PM
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1. If only Matt Taibbi did real reporting, like Sy Hersh
Edited on Wed Feb-02-05 12:58 PM by 11cents
...instead of composing "imagined discussions" and studding them with schoolboy profanity.

Chalk it up to a bad mood, but I just don't have any patience left for "journalists" who are too hip to do any actual work.
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paineinthearse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-02-05 12:46 PM
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2. I agree, it;'s a waste of talent and coulmn inches/bandwidth
But on the plus side, perhaps this will create some discussion that will get back to Taibbi.
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