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02/13/2004 Archived Entry: "Breslin."
Breslin.
Another one way over the left-field fence.
And on the eve of invading Iraq, Bush made a speech that was a copy of the one made by Adolph Hitler in the hours before his army invaded Poland in September of 1939.In a State of the Union speech, Bush said that Saddam tried to get uranium from the country of Niger and blow us away with a nuclear bomb. Afterward, the Bush people said the speech was essentially right although it had some wrong. It did. This could be put in three letters: Lie.
After that, from Washington there was one long, whining lie about weapons of mass destruction. If this Saddam had them, he would have used them in the first 20 minutes of the fighting. He had none. A man called Blix from the United Nations inspected Iraqi arms, including trucks found one week apart and empty. Nothing. Colin Powell got up at the UN and, reading whatever it was that Bush and his people gave him, he said the trucks were there on one day to carry away biological weapons before the inspectors arrived and that is why we have to bomb Baghdad.
The news reporters of the nation, the Pekingese of the Press, never questioned a single, solitary sentence of his presentation. All agreed it was a great moment for America. In doing so they stained themselves forever as cowards.
Finally fixed the link. sorry for the delay.
Replies: 5 people speak up
Something strange going on here. The link provided goes to a Newsday story all right, but it's about a suit against the NYPD to get ground rules straight for demonstrations. Interesting, but no mention of the "Pekingese of the Press" (great line!), SotU, Poland, etc.
Clicking on Newsday's link to Breslin columns produces a nattering piece of nothingness (by his own admission) about roll-top desks.
Wondering if the Top Pekingese at Newsday got an irate phone call from DC...
Posted by Xan @ 02/13/2004 11:13 AM NY
At the beginning of the (energy) war I was amazed at how fast all of the small TV stations got their "war set" put together. And also how quickly the newspeoples' warspeak appeared, everywhere, all using the exact same nomenclature.
Posted by Aristophanes @ 02/13/2004 12:50 PM NY
No monkey biz on Newsday's part here - I posted the link of another story I was interested in.
I'm in the middle of getting IEAmerica's late news out the door. Will fix shortly. Sorry for the confusion....
Posted by editor @ 02/13/2004 02:58 PM NY
Oops, looks like I need to tweak the dials on my paranoid-o-meter again before somebody nominates me for the Tinfoil Hat Club. :-)
Posted by Xan @ 02/13/2004 09:56 PM NY
Not only was Breslin's piece over the left field wall - it was way over the Fenway Green Monster Left field wall and into the parking garage on Landsdowne Street!
Let's get Breslin and Peggy Noonan in the ring for a WWF (World Writer's Federation)smackdown match
Posted by Hillary Pelosi @ 02/14/2004 09:55 AM NY
