Lapdogs
In "Lapdogs: How the Press Rolled Over For Bush," Eric Boehlert dissects the Beltway media's culpability during the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth smear campaign from the 2004 campaign and concludes the episode "likely delivered Bush the cushion he needed to win in November" and "represented an embarrassing new benchmark for campaign season reporting." "Lapdogs" holds the press accountable for the central role it played in enabling a smear campaign that consumed the crucial campaign month of August 2004 -- "a media monsoon that washed away Kerry's momentum coming out of the Democratic convention."
How, for instance, the Washington Post published 13 page-one Swift Boat stories in 12 days, most of which failed to address the key fact that the Swift boat allegations -- that Kerry lied about his Vietnam War record -- were riddled with errors and compounded by the veterans' fanciful, ever-changing stories. Despite the lack of evidence to substantiate their claims, which were floated 35 years after the fact and bankrolled by partisan Republicans, the press refused, in real time, to call out the Swift Boat allegations as a dirty trick.
"Lapdogs," in bookstores next week, charges that the press, spooked by allegations of liberal bias, has been "afraid of the facts and the consequences of reporting them" during the Bush years.
Read more on this HERE.
posted by John Good @ 5:07 PM
5 Comments:
There will be a similar title soon to be released by Helen Thomas...
hungover?
thanks for the drinks.
its your turn to post the re-cap.
Jeff - Remind me when you see it.
JQP - Were your ears burning today?
Another reason I loved Colbert at the WH lapdog conferance was his humoruos attaks on the media. Much has been sais about his Bush joking but not much on the gut punches to the press(I'll upper case it went they earn it). No wonder most of the MSM gave Colbert a thumbs down on his performance.
Peace.
Colbert cleaned their friggin' clocks! He fooled ALL of them.
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