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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (541861)	1/8/2010 7:01:02 AM
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MSNBC slimes the intelligence community by pushing kooky conspiracy theory "What's new and particularly worrying is the prospect that intelligence was deliberately withheld by one part of the American intelligence community from another, either by a grudge to make somebody look bad, or for any other reason that put petty politics above national security." Rachel Maddow William Tate One thing you've got to say for MSNBC: they stand by their man. But even Tammy Wynette would cringe at the senseless devotion to Barack Obama they displayed this week. To call it puppy dog-like would be an insult to canines. Just days after seven CIA officers and operatives lost their lives in defense of this country, MSNBC conspired with unnamed senior White House sources to slander the victims and the rest of the intelligence community, just to try and defend Obama's incompetence on intelligence. MSNBC spent much of its Monday prime-time promoting the spurious contention that intelligence agencies may have deliberately allowed the attempted Christmas Day plane bombing to proceed in order to make Obama look bad. This contemptible idea was floated during the Countdown comedy hour when The Sportscaster reported 'Breaking News' that White House sources believe the intelligence community's failure to stop the plot "might have been intentional and not accidental." And "that the information was in some way deliberately withheld from some higher or broader authority to make someone look bad," leaving little doubt that the victim of this new, vast right-wing conspiracy was Obama. Earlier, fellow Obama sock-puppet Richard Wolffe had reported that White House officials said the intelligence debacle was the result of "a failure by individuals who maybe had an alternative agenda." Wolffe 'covered' the 2008 campaign for Newsweek, while simultaneously penning a paean to Obama. He was granted frequent access to Obama as a candidate and reportedly is now working on a second book with, presumably, similar access. Wolffe and MSNBC have already been accused of deceiving the public about Wolffe's various conflicts of interest. Three guesses as to Wolffe's source on what Obama is thinking about the Christmas Day bomb attempt? Wolffe, who was born in Birmingham, England, declared that the question being asked in the White House about the intelligence failings was, "Cockup or conspiracy?" MSNBC continued to promote Wolffe's charges as 'Breaking News' on the following program. "What's new and particularly worrying," uber-lib Rachel Maddow intoned solemnly, "is the prospect that intelligence was deliberately withheld by one part of the American intelligence community from another, either by a grudge to make somebody look bad, or for any other reason that put petty politics above national security." Apparently, even this White House realized they had taken liberals' animus against the intelligence community too far. Their unofficial spokesman, Wolffe, immediately began walking back the allegation. Wolffe had "just checked in" with his masters, and he told Maddow by phone that the storyline he and The Sportscaster had spun was, in reality, "ten steps ahead of where the White House is right now," and that "this comes down to human error more than this is some willful withholding." Although Wolffe added that the conspiracy "questions are being asked." In other words, this White House trial balloon went over about as well as the balloon boy stunt. But the damage had been done. The left-wing blogosphere--the kind that puts the O in looney toons--quickly picked up the Obama talking points, confirming that instead of 'the Place for Politics' MSNBC is actually the Place for Propaganda. The airtime between Wolffe's regurgitation of White House talking points and MSNBC's character assassination of the intelligence community was filled with, surprise!, Bush bashing. Somehow the release of Gitmo prisoners, which the left had pursued with the persistence--and the lack of sense--of a child holding his breath, was Bush's fault. That so many of the released Gitmo prisoners were from Yemen was also, inexplicably, Bush's fault. (MEMO TO COUNTDOWN PRODUCERS: The previous administration is just that ... previous. You've become a one-trick-pony show whose pony done died.) So far, no apology has been forthcoming from either the White House or Wolffe to the thousands of hard-working professionals they slandered, or to the families of those in the intelligence community who have died in the nation's defense. As for MSNBC, it has sunk to yet another nadir in its eagerness to pimp Obama's political agenda, its reportage now the stuff you scrape off shoes. americanthinker.com