Posted by tallman on Sep 18-03 1:08pm Send Private Message

Once again, I need to emphasize that I'm not talking about the overall issue of wrongdoing. What concerns me is your initial post. You still have not told me why it was acceptable for you to play it loose with the facts concerning Cheney's interview. You berate the administration for selective quoting and malicious ommissions, yet you do the same thing (and this isn't the first time either). Why is that acceptable? The administration is expert at using the media as a propaganda tool. The media is what it is, and the administration has used it to its full and calculated advantage. So it is now your contention that when Cheney gave that interview, he carefully constructed every sentence on the fly so as to allow himself the opportunity to misspeak later in the interview in the hopes that the media would pick up on that one sentence, ignoring all of the things he said to the contrary, and use it as the headline? I think you are stretching it a bit. Does the administration use the media to their advantage? Of course they do. It would be absurdly foolish not to, especially when their enemies, both internal and external, are doing the same thing. Again, my concern is your initial post and why you feel it is necessary to misquote Cheney to make your point. ~tallman