5/3/2005
Goldberg on Mitchell
It's like rhetoric, but without the substance or form: (monkeys flinging poo)
And then Mitchell starts with what he sees as the most obvious similarity between Vietnam and Iraq:Where to begin? The question is whether or not the public believes bush deceived them. For reasons I can't fathom, with the possible exception of cluelessness, Jonah finds polls unacceptable as a means of gauging public opinion. WTF? Jonah then proceeds to split the hair between "misled" and "lied", a difference readers around here will hopefully fail to appreciate, as it tends towards nil. Like the difference between naked and lacking clothes, the emperor may be both a fool and unfit for his post. I like the bit at the end where Jonah says that the only reason Mitchell is using the poll, is because it proves his point. WTF? If Jonah lived 400 years ago would he have said: "The only reason Newton uses Mathematics is because it suppports his Physics"?
Let’s start with: the nation’s leaders lying to the American people to gain our involvement in the two wars. Don't take my word for it. Gallup found this week that half of all Americans now say that President Bush deliberately misled them on WMDs.
Um. That’s his evidence? A poll? The number could be 100% of Americans and it wouldn’t count as proof – in a court of law or with a fair editor -- that Bush “lied” (neither, alas, would Mr. Mitchell’s “word” that it is so). Indeed, the polling question is whether or not America was “misled” not if it was lied to. Readers around here understand that the distinction is significant. Readers probably also understand that if the polls overwhelmingly said Bush told the truth, Mitchell wouldn’t bother with polls.
Don't answer that.
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