The Downing Street Memo Story Won't Die - WaPo

[rndmprsn]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/07/AR2005060700474.html

More than a month after its publication, the so-called Downing Street Memo remains among the top 10 most viewed articles on The Times of London site.

It's not hard to see why this remarkable document, published in The Times on May 1 (and reported in this column on May 3), continues to attract reader interest around the world, especially with British Prime Minister Tony Blair visiting Washington Tuesday...

A week later, The Times of London reported on the Conyers letter and quoted the Michigan congressman as saying, "I deplore the fact that our media have been so reticent on the question of whether there was a secret planning of a war for which neither the Congress nor the American people had given permission."

"We have The Sunday Times to thank for this very important activity. It reminds me of Watergate, which started off as a tiny little incident reported in The Washington Post. I think that the interest of many citizens is picking up," Conyers said.

So is journalistic interest. Over the weekend, Charles Hanley, a special correspondent for the Associated Press, linked The Times's Downing Street memo to U.N. Ambassador nominee John Bolton's effort to get a U.N. weapons inspector fired...

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[Fridays Child]

1. What a revealing headline. Unspoken but implied is...

...that it won't die, DESPITE the collective corporate media's best effort to murder it.

[Sparkly]

2. The new meme is "It doesn't matter because most have decided..."

This is what I've heard today, although I've been too busy to hear much. "It isn't getting media coverage in the U.S. because most Americans have already made up their minds one way or the other about whether or not they support the war."

Of course, they "made up their minds" without FACTS. What percentage of Bush voters were misinformed, again?!? And obviously, the powers that be, including the media, like it that way.

[Fridays Child]

3. Here's what really gauls me about the whole thing...

On the very day that a huge connection is uncovered between the DSM facts and Bolton's firing of Jose Bustani (http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-bolton-un-firing,0,7826877.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines), Biden publicly concedes defeat on Bolton's appointment to the UN (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/06/05/national/w084301D89.DTL).

When will the Democrats in Washington stop rolling over and playing dead for the Repukes?

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4. Yeah, but Bush denies it

So that should be enough for the MSM to just drop it entirely without looking back.

[rndmprsn]

6. corp media does its bidding well...spineless bastards all!

[Mojorabbit]

5. This is a great article

He ties all the pieces together.

[LightningFlash]

7. And John Bolton's hands are all over this.

Guess PNAC won't get their U.N. Ambassador like they were gunning for! :banghead: