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To: Sea Otter who wrote (222551)	10/4/2007 10:23:23 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793622

Shifting Targets The Administration's plan for Iran. by Seymour M. Hersh Sy can spin more cloth out of gossamer thread than any writer I know.

To: Sea Otter who wrote (222551)	10/4/2007 11:00:21 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793622

Hersh is famously gullible. All you have to do is give him a line that jives with his own lefty/Arabist take, and he'll swallow it hook, line and sinker. He has the rep of always protecting his sources so there is little risk involved. There is a long list of Hersh stories that have turned out to be quite factually challenged shall we say, after the fact. But he has a big following so it becomes true for the lefies. He said Don Rumsfeld ordered the abuse at Abu Ghraib, so it's a now a fact for the "reality based" community. Hersh thinks Bush is itching to bomb Iran, and a some guys at State who fear the same have fed him a line. How much of any of it is true is anybody's guess. He writes all this stuff up as if it were gospel, when he's just regurgitating most of it. Gideon Rose once called him a "reportorial vacuum cleaner." And then in his speeches he goes even farther, not even claiming that he has evidence for the stuff he says - but it's okay anyway he claims. He just feels it's right. He's a walking exemplar of the "fake but accurate" style of news reporting. Sy Hersh Says It’s Okay to Lie (Just Not in Print) nymag.com Incidently, while listening to Terry Gross interview Hersh the other day on NPR, I heard him admit something in an offhand way that he had denied for years. He said that the Iraqi insurgency was not spontaneous, but had been planned by Saddam Hussein and the Baathists in the 14 month runup to the war. This was the complete opposite of what he was saying in 2004 and 2005. No explanation of the reversal, and certainly no admission that wasting all that time at the UN had proved very costly for the US and Britain.