The Titanic has hit an iceberg . Judith Miller and her lawyers, in concocting this self-serving excercise in elision and obfuscation, and the editors of the New York Times , in delivering it to their readers, have sent a clear message to the broader public: find a life raft, quick. A newspaper has no higher obligation to its readers than the timely reporting of the truth. The New York Times just officially said goodbye to all that. Whether we look at Miller's hiding behing her notes, her hiding of her notes, her obfuscation of her sources even as she purported to reveal one, or that misspelled name... Valerie Flame ...written on a note pad, but, essentially, according to Miller, signifying nothing ...there could hardly be a more sordid or less satisfying outcome to the "paper of record" coming clean. If this is the best they have to offer, and indeed, that seems to be the case, their readers shouldn't be the only ones looking to the life boats. "the notes...
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If you'd like to see a mocking of President Bush's 2006 State of the Union Speech slide over to my blog at:
http://collegeguru.blogspot.com/2006/01/2006-state-of-union-mocking-of-george.html
If you can't reach it through there go to http://collegeguru.blogspot.com
I hope you don't miss the 51 minutes of your life wasted listening to Bush's tripe to produce those 16 words - huh, now that's a coincidence!
"I did not have auditory relations with that peroration."
Or something like that.