Judy Miller: The "Slanderous" Bloggers Destroyed me

[kpete]

Judith Miller's New Excuse
The former Times reporter tells Vanity Fair the "slanderous" bloggers destroyed her.
By Jack Shafer
Posted Thursday, March 16, 2006, at 8:11 PM ET



Judith Miller

Judith Miller has a new alibi—the blogs done her in!

Writer Marie Brenner presents Miller's latest defense in an April Vanity Fair feature story about the fallout from the Valerie Plame investigation. Brenner, acknowledging she's a friend of the former New York Times reporter, writes that while still in Iraq in May 2003, Miller became a "major target in the intense public anger directed at Bush's war, owing to her reports that Saddam Hussein was producing weapons of mass destruction."

The ones tossing the fire were those dastardly—but unnamed—bloggers, according to Miller. Upon returning to New York later in May, Miller met with the Times' two top editors, Howell Raines and Gerald Boyd, who were then battling a staff revolt triggered by the Jayson Blair scandal. They acknowledged the "flak" her stories had gotten and told her foreign editor Roger Cohen did not want her to go back to Iraq. Cohen opposed her return because, as he tells Brenner, "There were concerns about her sources and her sourcing." Still, Miller managed a quick trip to Iraq.

..............

Miller describes to Vanity Fair the process by which the Pajama People destroyed her:

The bloggers were without editing, without a way for people to understand what was good, what was well reported—to distinguish between the straight and the slanderous. Things would get instantly picked up, magnified, and volumized.

http://www.slate.com/id/2138161/

[MSgt213]

1. Is it possible to disconnect her feeding tube?

[Viva_La_Revolution]

3. Jeez look at her... I think they stopped feeding her a while ago. nt

[Lena inRI]

109. Naw. . .that's how ya look when. . .

you sell your soul to the devil.

:evilgrin:

[JuniperLea]

2. How dare those dastardly bloggers spread the truth far and wide!

Bastids!


:sarcasm:

[The Magistrate]

4. This Might Be Better Phrased, Ma'am

Along some line like: "People aware enough to see I was a lying shill for the administration's war propaganda, and damn vocal about it at their key-boards, brought me down."

But this one really is not capable of a truthful utterance....

[Mythsaje]

5. If it was slander, she'd have a suit in the works...

Does she?

I think not.

[BuyingThyme]

8. Government agents aren't protected as well as the rest of us.

It's that redress of grievances thing.

[Pryderi]

106. Isn't truth the defense against slander? She has no case.

[sendero]

6. Spoken like a true Republican..

... deflect the blame, point fingers, never admit you were just plain fucking wrong and everyone with 2 functioning brain cells KNEW you were wrong but you just kept on and on.

Poor little mistreated you!

[SammyWinstonJack]

56. !

:applause:

[Canuckistanian]

63. Hear , hear

She was proved fucking wrong. Period.

[Norquist Nemesis]

86. .

:applause:

[Blutodog]

94. Fuckwad

Isn't she a fuckwad? I hate her. Let's hope she rots in hell for what she's done. She has the blood of thousands on here hands.

[tridim]

7. Bush should hire her, she'd fit right in

Reality? Who needs it. It's more fun to just make shit up and blame others for all your shortcomings.

[PATRICK]

55. I thought she was enlisted

She may have been actually sleeping with Libby so maybe she came with not too high a monetary price tag.

[Canuckistanian]

65. I heard Libby really turned her aspens

And she Iraq'ed his world...

[mikeytherat]

79. I didn't appreciate that image, but I did laugh!

mikey_the_rat

[MissWaverly]

9. Run this by me again

She helped to turn a major newspaper into a propaganda arm of the White House, she helped
hype the claim that Sadaam had WMD's in the rush to war and now she wants to blame the
bloggers for telling the truth.




What did Truman say, I told them the truth and they thought it was hell!

[harpo]

yeah that's what i was thinking too...F her

[MissWaverly]

22. this is the same argument used about the Abu Ghraib

photos, it wasn't the torture that was so bad, it was those who wanted the photos released,
this is classic Rove spin!

[Stephanie]

70. Where's her good pal Ahmed Chalabi?

[Blue-Jay]

10. She lied and it's someone ELSE'S fault?

typical.

[Bluebear]

18. That's Republican for ya. nt

[harpo]

23. no responsibility...blame someone else

[Warpy]

11. No, Judy, your own words did that

You know, those words you repeated verbatim from the illegally installed administration without checking any of the facts with people like Hans Blix who had actually been on the ground and poking around in Iraq.

[burythehatchet]

12. Skank

Just a skanky ho in every sense of the word

[freefall]

58. How perfectly apt -- "skany ho".

right on burythehatchet!

Peace,

freefall

[rpannier]

13. Today it's the bloggers

fifty years ago she'd have said, "The butler did it."

[Bridget Burke]

52. Fifty years ago she would have blamed the Press....

There were many more newspapers in those days, and some of them were not afraid to print the truth. With fewer media outlets, owned by an ever-smaller group of corporations, the Official Story gets little opposition.

Except from the Bloggers.

[leveymg]

57. 50 years ago we would have been branded "commies" and hounded by the FBI

Thank you Mr. Gorbachev for hastening the collapse of the Soviet empire so we in the western Left could move out of its shadow of suspicion.

I guess we'll have to thank Mr. Bush for hastening the collapse of the American Empire so that the neocons and the Leninist Far-Right could similarly be moved off the stage. It's better the FBI searches Ms. Miller's desk than mine -- they found evidence of real treason in hers.

The Cold War covered a lot of crimes. They can't hide there anymore.

[Just Me]

14. Judy, Judy, Judy!!! You cooperated in a conspiracy to,...

,...market an illegal, profiteering, exploitative, BLOODY war to the American people.

YOU ARE NOT FORGIVEN UNTIL YOU PAY THE CONSEQUENCES.

[Burried News]

24. Spot on. Maybe she can do a George Patton

Tour every base in Iraq and apologize to the troops. After that she can lay a wreath on the more than 2300 graves she helped fill.

[Nite Owl]

15. She has to be a Republican

fit them to a tee, blame someone else, take the focus off what was done and put it on how they are being treated. Whiners who expect laws to be different for them.

[Burried News]

16. Thankya Judy Judy Judy - our best work lies ahead of us ...

[Pithy Cherub]

17. Ms. Run Amok Miller is republican to her core

in completely absolving herself of her ethical duty and journalistic responsibility. Being a self-righteous media whore with such disdain for the truth, the American public, the Constitution is hard work. She has spent the last few months weaving a confectionary web of lies to try and justify her "journalistic" lack of ethics and truth telling. A blogger didn't tell her to lie and obstruct justice. Miller chose to go to jail and now she finds it is all for naught. Bloggers are much more reputatble than she will ever be. Miller realizes bloggers are here to stay while she has retired with the fruits of her lying labor. Good Grief Mata Hari Miller, being transparent lends credibility. Whoring for access only got Judy chapped lips and an orange jumpsuit.

Miller coated the path with lies to make it easier for this Bush culture of corruption to go to war for non-existend WMD's. Bloggers didn't author the lies that killed thousands upon thousands of innocents. Miller has to live with that as does her former complicit employer The New York Times.

[Old and In the Way]

19. Sucks that Big Media can't control the truth anymore, eh Judy?

[habitual]

25. just what i was thinking.

how pissed off she is that someone else can tell a story and have it heard. BOO HOO

[The Backlash Cometh]

47. She's like fifteen years too late.

As much as I hate to admit it, the conservatives beat us to the internet. If Judy has any questions about the destructive powers of blogs, she should check the unfiltered chain reaction that took place in the 90s when Drudge would post half truths or blatant lies and it would run like a prairie fire to Lucianne, townhall.com, and others. By 5pm that same day, FoxNews would be airing the rumor as if it was truth.

Wish we had that kind of power. At least when you compare the conservative blogs with the liberal blogs, you'll note that the liberals blogs at least make an effort to be fair by forcing everyone to post links.

[mom cat]

20. Alright "slanderous Bloggers", take a bow!

:toast:

[EFerrari]

21. You bet, Judy. WE exposed your slutty, sloppy, mendacious rear.

And we wear that feather in a proud cap.

Meanwhile, you better go mow around the aspens. A skill I'm sure you've perfected.

:rofl:

[tinfoilinfor2005]

26. No, it wasn't the blogs,

It was the Aspens. All that turning. Heh, heh.

[zbdent]

27. Dan Rather, on Judy Miller's plight -

"BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! :rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:"

[kevinbgoode]

28. Right Judy. . .

just like every other Republican, you had nothing to do with your actions yourself.

I think the American people are getting real tired of hearing the same song-and-dance.

[boobooday]

29. Judy Miller, you are a TOOL

And I'm proud to be a slanderous blogger who blogged about you. I think you are serving two masters.

By the way, how are those aspens turning this year?

[mondo joe]

30. It's enough to make me want to Blog. n/t

[mitchum]

31. But cheerleaders aren't supposed to cry, Judith...

I have no sympathy for this scribbling bitch who helped sell bushco's war

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

32. Kiss my Aspens!

:P

[Jose Diablo]

62. LOL

"Kiss my Aspens!"

:rofl:

[Malikshah]

33. Wow-- bloggers are the new boogeypeople

We creep into little kiddies' rooms and steal their breath as they sleep.

Poor little Judy...the window was open just a crack.....we gotcha!

[jsamuel]

34. I guess we should take that as a complement

[hootinholler]

35. WTF??? !

The bloggers were without editing, without a way for people to understand what was good, what was well reported—to distinguish between the straight and the slanderous. Things would get instantly picked up, magnified, and volumized.

<Church lady voice>
Well, then then perhaps we should examine some well reported articles, shall we? Hmmm??
</Church>

I happen to have an outline of some of them. From the Judy section of my Plame file:

8: NYT
8.1: Miller
8.1.1: WMD Articals:
http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1984429

Jun, 2004:
http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/media/features/9226/index.html -:
During the winter of 2001 and throughout 2002, Miller produced a
series of stunning stories about Saddam Hussein’s ambition and
capacity to produce weapons of mass destruction, based largely on
information provided by Chalabi and his allies almost all of which
have turned out to be stunningly inaccurate.

-also-

Her Iraq coverage didn’t just depend on Chalabi. It also relied
heavily on his patrons in the Pentagon. Some of these sources, like
Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz, would occasionally talk to her on
the record. She relied especially heavily on the Office of Special
Plans, an intelligence unit established beneath Undersecretary of
Defense Douglas Feith. The office was charged with uncovering evidence
of Al Qaeda links to Saddam Hussein that the CIA might have missed. In
particular, Miller is said to have depended on a controversial neocon
in Feith’s office named Michael Maloof. At one point, in December
2001, Maloof’s security clearance was revoked. In April, Risen
reported in the Times, Several intelligence professionals say he
came under scrutiny because of suspicions that he had leaked
classified information in the past to the news media, a charge that
Mr. Maloof denies. While Miller might not have intended to march
in lockstep with these hawks, she was caught up in an almost
irresistible cycle. Because she kept printing the neocon party line,
the neocons kept coming to her with huge stories and great quotes,
constantly expanding her access.

8.1.1.1: On Dec. 3, 2002, Miller aired in the Times the allegations
of an "unnamed informant" who said that a deceased Russian scientist
("Madam Smallpox") might have given Iraq a virulent strain of
smallpox. Nine months later, Dafna Linzer of the Associated Press
authoritatively reported: "U.S. Weapons Hunters Find No Evidence Iraq
Had Smallpox" (Sept. 18).

8.1.1.2: April 21 "baseball cap" story - unidentified source wearing
cap discloses WMD processing locations - pegged bogon detector.

8.1.1.3: And, most memorably, she co-wrote a piece in which
administration officials suggested that Iraq had attempted to
import aluminum tubes for nuclear weapons. Vice-President Dick
Cheney trumpeted the story on Meet the Press, closing the
circle.
http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/media/features/9226/index.html -:

8.1.1.4: One incident that still rankles happened last April, when
Miller co-bylined a story with Douglas Jehl on the WMD search
that included a quote from Amy Smithson, an analyst formerly at
the Henry L. Stimson Center. A day after it appeared, the Times
learned that the quote was deeply problematic. To begin with, it
had been supplied to Miller in an e-mail that began, Briefly
and on background a condition that Miller had flatly
broken by naming her source. Miller committed a further offense
by paraphrasing the quote and distorting Smithson’s
analysis. One person who viewed the e-mail says that it
attributed views to Smithson that she clearly didn’t hold. An
embarrassing correction ensued. And while the offense had been
entirely Miller’s, there was nothing in the correction
indicating Jehl’s innocence.
http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/media/features/9226/index.html -:

8.1.2: (4.4.1.1) Mobile Exploitation Team Alpha (META)

8.1.2.1: "General Judith Miller" -- as Shafer has dubbed her -- was
accused by a half dozen officers of intimidating soldiers
searching for WMD. An Army officer told Kurtz: "Judith was always
issuing threats of either going to The New York Times or to the
Secretary of Defense." Another charged: "She ended up almost
hijacking the mission" of the Mobile Exploitation Team Alpha
(META), which was charged with examining potential Iraqi weapon
sites after the war.
Her journalistic coup lay, rather, in talking her way into getting
clearance from the Pentagon and being allowed to embed with the
75th. As Drogin told Layton, "she was in a great position to get
the initial confirmation in the field" when WMD were found. But
they were not found, despite her best efforts to make readers
think that they were or were about to be.

8.1.2.2: Eugene Pomeroy, public-affairs officer for MET Alpha
According to Pomeroy, as well as an editor at the Times,
Miller had helped negotiate her own embedding agreement with the
Pentagon an agreement so sensitive that, according to one Times
editor, Rumsfeld himself signed off on it.
http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/media/features/9226/index.html -:

8.1.3: Pals with Chalabi (7.1)
http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/media/features/9226/index.html -:

8.1.4: Pals with King Hussein
http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/media/features/9226/index.html -:
As a correspondent for The Progressive and National Public Radio, she
turned her academic interest into a professional one, traveling to the
region and cultivating a network of highly placed sources. Nina
Totenberg, a colleague from NPR, recalls a party in the mid-seventies
at which Jordan’s King Hussein caught a glimpse of Miller across the
room and howled, Juuuuddddy!

Kiiiinnnggg, she responded.

8.1.5: Pals with:
http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/media/features/9226/index.html -:
Miller had ready access to many Mideast potentates. As she shuttled
between meetings with Hussein, Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, and
Palestinian Liberation Organization chief Yasser Arafat in 1984, her
colleagues joked about the Miller Plan for peace.
and
From her first day at the Times, Miller’s life and work have been hard
to separate, which for a reporter is both a strength and a
weakness. She’s a passionate person she gets caught up in her
sources passionately, one of her Times colleagues told me. Friends
from her earliest days in Washington noted that she didn’t surround
herself with people her own age. She sought out the best and brightest
at the city’s highest levels, dating Larry Sterne, the Washington
Post’s foreign editor, and hanging out with the defense gurus Richard
Perle and Walter Slocum. These people were powerful. But they were
also interesting, and Judy liked talking to them. She is curious and
enthusiastic, says one friend from this period.

8.1.6: Jeffery Goldberg
Remember, everyone was obsessed with the White House sex story, says
New Yorker writer Jeffrey Goldberg, who was invited by the paper to
join Miller in an investigation unit to examine Al Qaeda. Goldberg
found her an impossibly difficult colleague. But he also realized her
value. She happened to be prescient about the rise of the global
jihad. And it was her unpleasant hyper-aggressiveness that enabled her
to help force a very important story the possibility of a marriage
between WMD proliferators and global jihadists closer to the top of
the agenda.

My oh my! that girl sure do get around!

-Hoot

[Swamp Rat]

36. BWAHAHAHA!!! .... Judy Judy Judy!

Busted by bloggers in pajamas! :rofl:

[RazzleDazzle]

37. She is so beyond pathetic

it's sad. She's a sad, sad, sad excuse for a human being.

[Roland99]

38. Hey, Judy! Here's $0.35....call someone who gives a damn!

Lie down with dogs and you're bound to get fleas.


Flea-ridden *****.

[Caution]

39. Congrats to the bloggers!

They showed the world what a completely shitty reporter she is.

[Stephanie]

72. If the NY Times had FACT-CHECKERS we wouldn't have had to do it ourselves

Life's a bitch, Judy. I'm sure it's not fun getting caught lying, over and over and over.

[progressoid]

40. Oh booo hooo. Cry me a river, judy.

[The Backlash Cometh]

41. It wasn't like you were stealing a loaf of bread, Judy.

That's the difference between liberals and conservatives. Liberals will have instant sympathy for the man who steals a loaf of bread; but Republicans have instant empathy for the man who steals our retirement funds, our public resources and puts our children in danger's way "for the good of the country."

[SeattleRob]

42. Poor Judy!!!!

:nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity:

:nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity:

:nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity:

:nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity:

[formercia]

46. The tiny violin section speaks for me too.

<>

[hobbit709]

43. Everyone should send her

a slice of cheese to go with that whine.

[Clark2008]

78. Methinks her whine is made from sour grapes.

eom

[Tsiyu]

44. I am so pissed off right now after reading this

Does this warmongering bitch understand what DESTROYED means?

Was she destroyed like this?





THAT'S WHAT "DESTROYED" LOOKS LIKE, MILLER.

Didn't you slander those children's country and its people? Do you have any fucking CLUE how many people you helped kill?

FUCK YOU, MILLER. JUST FUCK YOUR WHINING ASS TO HELL. BLOOD IS ALL OVER YOUR HANDS.

[Hissyspit]

45. Ship her off to Iraq.

Send her out into Baghdad on patrol in an armorless Humvee night after night. THEN I'll MAYBE half pay attention to anything she has to say.

[NNN0LHI]

48. Playing footsie with Lou Dobbs just couldn't turn it around for her n/t

[stepnw1f]

49. That's Pathetic Ma' am

You committed treason against your country, and now you look for consolation? I am only too proud that I, as a "blogger", could have had any hand in your demise. Thank you for the credit, but I must be honest with myself and others, something you obviously are too weak or meek to handle, by saying I cannot claim such credit. You Ma'am, did this to yourself...because you are sick and perverted by your own greed.

Enjoy being publicly ostracized and ridiculed, because you deserve it all. The Truth Shall Set You Free...

[Ganja Ninja]

50. Here's a tip Judy.

Buy a bottle of bleach and you can be Ann Coulter.:shrug:

[seemslikeadream]

51. And what were you picking up Judith?

[DinahMoeHum]

53. Oh, Judy, Judy. Take a long walk off a short pier.

Sheesh, what an asshole.

:nopity:

[Libby2]

54. Damn, I hope that makes the bloggers proud.

I will toast them with green beer.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

59. Poor, poor Judy. Call the wah-mbulance!! Wah!! Wah!!

[DS1]

60. Obviously not enough

STFU

[katinmn]

61. Take that PowerLine. One for our side. Hee hee

:)

[madokie]

64. I love it when assholes stumble and then blame the rock. wtf

[Postman]

66. Right, it's not because you're a f**king liar with blood on your hands

eom

[spanone]

67. No Judy, your lack of journalistic ethics destroyed you.

n/t

[Missy Vixen]

68. The silver lining

If anyone had any doubt that bloggers are powerful, they only need to read the bleatings of Judy Miller.

If blogs were ignored/not read/not assimilating the news, she'd have no complaints, would she?

Julie

[The Stranger]

69. Good job, bloggers. Keep up the good work.

[glitch]

71. Encouraging. If she's really destroyed. I say prove it Judy.

Prove you are destroyed, then we can all dance.

[Nomen Tuum]

73. Shut up Judy Macbeth

You lied. No matter how hard you try, you'll NEVER wash the blood of innocent people off of your hands. NEVER!

[iconoclastNYC]

74. Slander is actionable in a court of law Judy

Cry me a river Judy -- wash the blood off your hands with your tears.

Why don't you take some of that million dollar NYT golden parachute and put it towards settling the score in court.

[JPZenger]

75. She Should Have Thrown Out for Pre-War Coverage

She should have been persecuted for the way she allowed the Front page of the New York Times to be used by her pals in the Bush Administration to get us into this quagmire in Iraq.

[DirtyDawg]

76. Public figure...true...absence of malice...

...OK, I'll give you malice. Fact is, Judy didn't do anything 'wrong' - given her, and her co-conspirators' purpose - they got exactly what they wanted...the country and Congress gave bushco the go ahead to engage in this fuckin' disaster that is Iraq. But just to be sure, I looked up 'slander'...first it has to do with 'utterance of false statements or misrepresenting the facts'. This then, from us 'bloggers' can't be 'slanderous' for a couple of reasons. First, since it was written and not 'uttered or voiced', and second, since everything that's been said - with the possible exception of she 'porked a pony in mes-o-po-tamia' - is absolutely true. Now if she had said 'libelous' she would have at least been in the right context...but then she'd still have to deal with that truth thingy.

Maybe what she meant to say is that the bloggers use ugly language in their denunciations of her - then again some of us think that 20 thousand dead and maimed GIs along with untold numbers of Iraqis, pretty-much trumps calling her a fucking whore.

[LiberalinNC]

77. That bitch destroyed her own career!

[Aviation Pro]

80. Well, Judas....

...your misstatements caused more than 2,300 of my brothers and sisters in arms to die. So fuck you, rhymes with punt.

[peace frog]

81. Boo fuckin' hoo, bitch

Cry me a fuckin' river :eyes:

[underpants]

83. YOU STARTED.... A...... .......WAR!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh yeah but other than that :crazy:

[peace frog]

84. Hike them drawers up a mite there, sport (I mean, underpants)

[Arugula Latte]

88. Boo Fuckin' Hoo. That was the first thing that popped into my head, too.

Waaaaah! People were mean when I told lies that helped get tens of thousands slaughtered! Waaaaah! :cry:

[klook]

82. Too bad we couldn't destroy her before her lies helped start a bogus war

Actually, she destroyed herself. That's what happens (sometimes, anyway) to "journalists" who write stories with uncorroborated information as truth.

[cboy4]

85. As someone else said: BOO FUCKING HOO!!

Those bloggers...they've ruined me...

I'm down to my last $7 million in the bank.

Please :puke:

[Rose Siding]

87. God, she's been hanging with Deborah Howell

Poor, poor things.

[gademocrat7]

89. Advice to Judas Judy and Marie Brenner..put down the crack pipe.

[JeffR]

90. In other words, it was beauty what killed the beast

So why oh why won't she just shut up?

[sdfernando]

91. Only herself to blame.

The only slanderous person to destroy ms miller was ms miller herself. Take responsibility for your actions.....wooops, sorry, forgot, she's a repub and a shill, they don't take responsibility for anything!

[Meldread]

92. Oh, shut the fuck up bitch.

Are you going to cry a river? You brought this on yourself! No one made you do what you did! If it were up to me, I'd send your ass right back to prison, because that's where traitors like you belong. Who knows, maybe when all this is over that's where you'll end up. I have my fingers crossed. Now go slither back under your rock, you snake.

[Disturbed]

98. "She should have been persecuted."

No. She should be prosecuted for Criminal Fraud.

[Blutodog]

93. Bu$hCo whore

What a pathetic excuse for a reporter Judy is. She goes to jail to protect Bu$hCo's lying and then can't understand why nobody except Karl Rove et al. think she's a heroine? Judy please go the fuck away your 15 mins. of fame is over. Go write a book about how bdly u were treated for being a Bu$h shill.

[Voltaire99]

95. Causes for glee: Miller going nuts, and the Times losing money!

Miller's delusional muttering aside, she's partly right of course: alternatives to the MSM did do her in. And thank heavens for that!

Had it not been for the Net--and I mean not only bloggers, whose influence is overrated, but the millions of soapboxes and home forensic labs that are email, web sites, chat rooms and message boards like this one--we might still be fed Miller's PR work for Bushism and the Pentagon.

Instead, the genie is out of the bottle: truth, or at least the search for truths, has become far more popularly decentralized than it was twenty years ago. Newsroom layoffs prove it. Barring interventions by fascism (always possible), a large part of society isn't going back to the old hierarchical order of receiving "news" from on high, and a new generation is using the Net to sift through and produce their own competing narratives.

We can easily see why this trend so troubles elites, who traditionally have depended on the media to manufacture consent for their projects. From Washington down to high-priced shoe-polishers like Miller, a backlash is brewing. But for now, let us savor a small victory in one battle, at least. Miller is reduced to hysterics, and that's a start. ;-)

[DoYouEverWonder]

96. Hey Little Miss Run Amok

Watch out, we're coming to get you.

[SoCalDem]

97. The ability of bloggers to FACT CHECK is what "did her in"

Her own words and deeds are "whut dun her in".. Bloggers have the time and dedication to dig for morsels, and then lay them all out there for everyone else to see... Judy got used to playing fast and loose, with the satisfaction that once published, read, and then discarded in the recycle bins, her words were ephemeral.. She thought she had the ability to just vamp and write whatever she thought at the moment, and the past would not return to haunt her.. She also thought everyone liked her

She was wrong...on both counts

[bluerum]

99. Volumized. She was,,,, volumized. Mmmmm Judy. Thats hot.

[Jim Sagle]

100. Judy's turn to cry.

:beer:

[MCMetal]

101. Way to go , Judy

You've obviously learned how to blame others for your own lies and incompetence very well from whichever loser(s) you were shagging in Chimpy's garbage administration.
Congratulations , you stupid ugly pig .........:puke:

[Sarah Ibarruri]

102. Oh my GOD she's describing herself, the bitch!!!

Here's what Judith Miller says in the article about bloggers, but I think it sounds EXACTLY like what she did in the NY Times and is guilty of!!!!!!
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"Miller describes to Vanity Fair the process by which the Pajama People destroyed her:

The bloggers were WITHOUT EDITING, WITHOUT A WAY FOR PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND WHAT WAS GOOD, WHAT WAS WELL REPORTED - TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN THE STRAIGHT AND THE SLANDEROUS. Things would get instantly picked up, MAGNIFIED, AND VOLUMIZED".

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If that doesn't sound like the crap she's guilty of having written and published in the NY Times, then I'm George Bush!!

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

103. If she really thinks she's been slandered/libeled...

...then she should pursue her legal remedy. Of course, truth is a pretty solid defense against frivolous libel or slander suits, and that might just present a little bit of a problem.

[FredScuttle]

104. Of course...

after all, it was the Huffington Post's fault that she tripped and landed on Scooter Libby's dick.

What a disgrace to her profession.

[upi402]

105. ENLIST Ms Miller, if you love the war

:nopity:

[Neil Lisst]

107. Does she mean like these cartoons we ran about her?

Does she mean like these cartoons we ran about her?

[Sarah Ibarruri]

108. hahaha! Oh my God they're great!

Thanks for posting them.

I think using humor to ridicule and expose, is far more effective and deadly than anger (although anger does come in handy at moments). :-)