Greg Mitchell Gives it to Dana Milbank (Great Article)

[NewInNewJ.]

Bush's Missing WMD 'Joke': Is the Media Still Laughing?(haughty piece)



A brief comment at a forum in Washington this week resurrects one of the most shameful episodes in recent media history: The night a roomful of journalists laughed along with a president making fun of the bogus threat that led to a costly war.

By Greg Mitchell

(June 18, 2005) -- Dana Milbank of The Washington Post, in an article Friday, suggested that the congressional forum the previous day on the Downing Street memos was something of a joke. In his opening sentence he declared that House Democrats “took a trip to the land of make-believe” in pretending that the basement conference room was actually a real hearing room, even importing a few American flags to make it look more official.
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/columns/pressingissues_display

[cynatnite]

1. link doesn't work n/t

[NewInNewJ.]

2. Sorry , try this one

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/columns/pressingissues_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000964303

[Jack Rabbit]

3. !!

Please click here.

[cynatnite]

5. It would be nice if journalists were ashamed of their behavior

I remember thinking that it seemed in such bad taste to make fun of the reason we 'supposedly' went to war. Looking back on it now...it's just plain insulting, cowardly and unconscionable in light of the lives lost for this so-called 'joke'.


BTW, thanks for the link.

[LightningFlash]

4. Oh my god....It's just sad.

Milbank is an obvious coverup artist for them. :thumbsdown:

[Blue_In_AK]

6. Excellent.

I had forgotten that little stand-up bit. What an ass. I pray for the day when these people will be put to shame. Dana Milbank owes John Conyers, Cindy Sheehan and everyone else in that room a huge apology.

[Straight Shooter]

7. Editor and Publisher is one of the finest sites on the Internet(s)

Dana Milbank should crawl into a corner and stay there.

Washington Post during Watergate, seekers of the truth. Washington Post during the War on Iraq, mockers of the truth.

[reality based]

10. That article is the best put down since Stewart undid Crossfire

Unfortunately it's not a joke so will not get attention in this totally screwed up country. Milbank should get the treatment.

[bobbieinok]

8. powerful ending to the article

I was reminded of all this at the Thursday forum when former CIA analyst Ray McGovern, after cataloguing the bogus Bush case for WMDs and the Iraqi threat, looked out at the cameras and notepads, mentioned the March 24, 2004 dinner, and acted out the president looking under papers and table for those missing WMDs. “And the media was all yucking it up….hahaha,” McGovern said. “You all laughed with him, folks. But I’ll tell you who is not laughing. Cindy Sheehan is not laughing.”

This was the woman sitting next to him whose son had been killed in Iraq. “Cindy’s son,” McGovern added, “was killed 11 days after the show put on by the president…after that big joke.”

Dana Milbank, who seems to like a good laugh, did not mention this in his story the following day.

[LightningFlash]

11. Godbless Sheehan and all true patriots. Condemn to hell this Admin. n/t

[Qanisqineq]

9. Very good, worth reading

I watched the Congressional forum on Thursday and was shaking my head when McGovern reenacted Bush's WMD joke. I remember that "joke" from 2004 and thought it was disgusting then and disgusting now. Reading Mitchell's description of Thursday's event made it even more sad.

[AlwaysDemocrat]

12. Isn't Milbank on KO Countdown sometimes?

If so - I plan to write to complain to MSNBC. Thanks for posting this.