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Postman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-29-09 04:59 AM
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White House spokesman bashes Brit press for torture reports
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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-29-09 05:13 AM
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1. Gibbs said that "the Department of Defense said. . . . "
that the reports weren't true. He didn't say they weren't true. They cannot dodge this forever.
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masuki bance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-29-09 05:17 AM
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The White House is pushing back against a British press report claiming the latest round of detainee photos -- the ones they're not releasing -- contain images of rape.

"None of the photographs in question depict the images described in the article," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said. "Again, I -- I think if you do an even moderate Google search you're not going to find many of these newspapers and truth within, say, 25 words of each other."
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/White-House-denies-report-on-rape-photos-46393107.html


Gibbs also charged that British newspapers had a record of getting it wrong, saying he would "speak generally about reports I've witnessed over the past few years in the British media."

"Let's just say if I wanted to look up -- if I wanted to read a write-up today of how Manchester United fared last night in the Champions League Cup, I might open up a British newspaper," he said. "If I was looking for something that bordered on truthful news, I'm not entirely sure it'd be the first stack of clips I picked up."
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-05/29/content_11451163.htm
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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-29-09 05:26 AM
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3. Yeah.. the downing street memos were fiction.
AMERICA HAS THE BEST PRESS IN THE WORLD.. ENGLISH NEWSPAPERS SUCK

". . . . .these memories are not the memories you're looking for"

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Supersedeas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-29-09 06:25 AM
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4. Another McClellan moment? "I have not seen the photos."
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frylock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-29-09 11:20 AM
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5. gibbs and the rest of these jagoffs are going to look like fucking idiots..
once these photos are revealed.
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