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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (121096)	6/20/2005 7:03:49 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793717

but that they thought them so useful for their own anti-American program that they made a big deal of them. Did you read that article? I was going to mention earlier that I was impressed with the journalistic quality of it as compared to the bias we're used to. Much more a straight news story than what you get from the BBC, eh?

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (121096)	6/20/2005 10:33:27 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793717

No, someone somewhere said Al Jazeera reported it an hour after Durbin said it. I assume Durbin said it at night, and it was carried on C-SPAN, but who in the world watches C-SPAN at night other than political junkies? Apparently not Al Jazeera. Could be they reported it an hour later, but I searched this on Lexis-Nexis and don't find it. I put together this chronology which is subject to rebuttal: 1. Durbin has been saying things in early June about the vast right wing attack machine which ticks off the members of said vast right wing attack machine, Rush Limbaugh, et al. 2. Durbin (who, by the way, is someone who's never crossed my personal radar screen before) says something about Guantanamo on June 14, which is not even reported in the MSM, at least not the print version. 3. Laura Ingraham (who, by the way, I like OK but obviously she needs ratings like anybody else in her job) plays his statement on her show to the accompaniment of "ain't it awful". 4. Said vast right wing attack machine picks it up and starts the predictable enormous shit storm. 5. Al Jazeera, which monitors said vast right wing attack machine picks up the predictable enormous shit storm and broadcasts it to their own listeners, who predictably, suck it up as evidence of how awful the US of A is treating Muslims. 6. I wish I could give you my password to Lexis-Nexis so you could see this for yourself, but outside the vast right wing attack machine and blogdom and a few cognoscenti of enormous shit storms, this has yet to break out into MSM. At least, not when I last checked. And it's been a week. 7. Bottom line, it's a shit storm in a teapot. But it will break out, of course, the vast right wing attack machine never rests. 8. So, how about Guantanamo, anyway? Anybody? Anybody? Bueller? 9. Durbin shouldn't have said what he said, but the enormous shit storm has turned "ain't it awful" into a self-fulfilling prophecy. I mean, we blame Newsweek for making a big deal out of Koran-flushing rumors. Can't we blame the vast right wing attack machine here?