Brad Blog: Congressman Conyers responds to Milbank's trash talk

[understandinglife]

Brad Blog has the letter and has published it:
http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00001475.htm

It begins:

June 17, 2005

Mr. Michael Abramowitz, National Editor
Mr. Michael Getler, Ombudsman
Mr. Dana Milbank
The Washington Post
1150 15th Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20071

Dear Sirs:

I write to express my profound disappointment with Dana Milbank's June 17 report, "Democrats Play House to Rally Against the War," which purports to describe a Democratic hearing I chaired in the Capitol yesterday. In sum, the piece cherry-picks some facts, manufactures others out of whole cloth, and does a disservice to some 30 members of Congress who persevered under difficult circumstances, not of our own making, to examine a very serious subject: whether the American people were deliberately misled in the lead up to war. The fact that this was the Post's only coverage of this event makes the journalistic shortcomings in this piece even more egregious.

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Read the rest at Brad Blog:
http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00001475.htm

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4173.htm


WE THE PEOPLE .... WILL NEVER FORGET

"... we sent our young people into harm's way without leveling with the American people." - Congresswoman Pelosi before Congress, 16 June 2005

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us - Impeachment of Bush and Cheney; indictment and prosecution of all members of the Bush regime who participated in the deception, should be campaign promises of any candidate worthy of our vote in the 2006 Congressional elections.

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. GO CONYERS

I think we all should CALL the WaPo and ask for Millibank's apology and preferably resignation.. oh call the Post what it is, a Right Wing Rag

[progressiveboston]

2. What a great Letter

We'll see if they print it...

I won't be holding my breath

[myrna minx]

3. Conyers is a man of steel.

:yourock:

[Independent_Liberal]

4. Keep the fight going Conyers!

It's not over until it's over!

[wicket]

5. God bless John Conyers!

[Matariki]

6. i just cut and paste the Brad Blog entry

and sent it to [e-mail] - subject line - 'now here's some REAL reporting'.

also let them know that they are rendering themselves obsolete.

[understandinglife]

11. I cut and pasted Congressman Conyers letter in an email to Milbanks

and noted that I wanted to be sure he got it.

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[DemoTex]

7. Damn! Conyers woodsheds Milbank .. big time.

Dana, how does it feel to have your ass kicked publicly by a great man?

[montanacowboy]

8. JUST WHEN THE THINK THE WHORE POST

CANNOT SINK ANY LOWER....

THAT MILLBANK IS A REAL PIECE OF WORK - WHAT A POS - BUT A REAL MAN AND PATRIOT JUST CLEANED HIS CLOCK - I WONDER IF HE HAS THE SENSE TO REALIZE THAT?

[KlatooBNikto]

9. That heartrending picture tells us why John Conyers and Cindy Sheehan

are our people.

[donco6]

10. Good clip here:

"The article begins with an especially mean and nasty tone, claiming that House Democrats "pretended" a small conference was the Judiciary Committee hearing room and deriding the decor of the room. Milbank fails to share with his readers one essential fact: the reason the hearing was held in that room, an important piece of context. Despite the fact that a number of other suitable rooms were available in the Capitol and House office buildings, Republicans declined my request for each and every one of them. Milbank could have written about the perseverance of many of my colleagues in the face of such adverse circumstances, but declined to do so. Milbank also ignores the critical fact picked up by the AP, CNN and other newsletters that at the very moment the hearing was scheduled to begin, the Republican Leadership scheduled an almost unprecedented number of 11 consecutive floor votes, making it next to impossible for most Members to participate in the first hour and one half of the hearing."

How could any journalist not mention this? It's flat-out deception through omission.