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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sully- who wrote (52951)	11/4/2006 4:49:10 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 90947

Sully - I'm not going to accept your homework assignment, much as I appreciate the amount of work you put into preparing it. I started in on it, but having realized that I'd read most of this stuff before, and that it isn't really as rigorous or convincing as you think it is, I'm just not going to go through it again. I've done a lot of reading from much better sources. I've read Ann Coulter's book about liberal media bias, and I've read books that respond to her charges and pretty much shred them. I could recommend one to you, but I'm sure you wouldn't bother to read it. "What Liberal Media?" is a good one. The fact that there are bloggers who believe certain things and provide link after link to other bloggers and right-wing "think tank" web sites doesn't mean, in the end, that their assertions are correct. Like the oft-repeated thing about how a high official in Saddam's government had a meeting with a representative of Al Qaeda in 1998, and they talked about maybe doing something together in Saudi Arabia. Then Saddam played some tapes and then something actually did happen, months later, in Saudi Arabia." I've heard it. That was 1998. The 9/11 commissioners, many years later said, unequivocally, that they had seen "no evidence" that a working collaborative relationship came out of the few meetings that were held between the two parties. The problem was simply that they had different agendas, and Saddam wasn't about to give up control of anything he had that helped him to maintain power. No amount of repetition of these right-wing memes is going to make them true. I realize you consider the case to be closed. That's your right. I just thing you're wrong. - Allen