Comments on: Other Liars of the Day: Maura Reynolds and Matea Gold http://xrlq.com/2004/10/19/other-liars-of-the-day-maura-reynolds-and-matea-gold/ Politische Kommentare mit Snarkenremarken Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:50:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Patterico's Pontifications http://xrlq.com/2004/10/19/other-liars-of-the-day-maura-reynolds-and-matea-gold/comment-page-1/#comment-6392 Patterico's Pontifications Fri, 22 Oct 2004 22:38:03 +0000 http://xrlq.com/2004/10/19/1963/other-liars-of-the-day-maura-reynolds-and-matea-gold/#comment-6392 <strong>Los Angeles Times Decides To Let Misrepresentation Stand</strong> Yesterday, I told you that the Los Angeles Times had published a falsehood benefitting the Kerry campaign. It looks like they've decided to stick with their misrepresentation, despite being put on notice that it's false. On Monday, President Bush quo...</trackback> Los Angeles Times Decides To Let Misrepresentation Stand
Yesterday, I told you that the Los Angeles Times had published a falsehood benefitting the Kerry campaign. It looks like they’ve decided to stick with their misrepresentation, despite being put on notice that it’s false. On Monday, President Bush quo…

]]> By: Patterico http://xrlq.com/2004/10/19/other-liars-of-the-day-maura-reynolds-and-matea-gold/comment-page-1/#comment-6345 Patterico Wed, 20 Oct 2004 22:40:41 +0000 http://xrlq.com/2004/10/19/1963/other-liars-of-the-day-maura-reynolds-and-matea-gold/#comment-6345 Give their e-mail addresses, as I did. I take it as an article of faith that anyone who writes them with this perfectly indisputable complaint, and gets the kind of thoughtless brush-off that we have both received, is going to be pissed off. For my part -- when I regain internet access at home -- I'm going to take another run at Managing Editor Baquet directly. Will he give the same kind of contentless, maddening "defense" given by Gold and Zalas? The amazing thing is that, if you bother to read the Kerry op-ed, this isn't an arguable point. There is no "find and destroy" proposal there -- period. Nothing remotely like it. The problem is that, while it's blatantly false, it's hard to conclusively demonstrate its falsity in 10 words or less. When they say "Paul Bremer didn't give a speech" and you show them two speeches he gave, it's tougher for them to pretend they're right, because even a four-year old can understand their mistake. (Even then, it took an Instapundit link to move the ball forward.) But when the falsehood is harder to explain, like here, they appear to be willing to try to bluff their way through it. The more people who write them, the tougher that gets. Give their e-mail addresses, as I did. I take it as an article of faith that anyone who writes them with this perfectly indisputable complaint, and gets the kind of thoughtless brush-off that we have both received, is going to be pissed off.

For my part — when I regain internet access at home — I’m going to take another run at Managing Editor Baquet directly. Will he give the same kind of contentless, maddening “defense” given by Gold and Zalas?

The amazing thing is that, if you bother to read the Kerry op-ed, this isn’t an arguable point. There is no “find and destroy” proposal there — period. Nothing remotely like it.

The problem is that, while it’s blatantly false, it’s hard to conclusively demonstrate its falsity in 10 words or less. When they say “Paul Bremer didn’t give a speech” and you show them two speeches he gave, it’s tougher for them to pretend they’re right, because even a four-year old can understand their mistake. (Even then, it took an Instapundit link to move the ball forward.) But when the falsehood is harder to explain, like here, they appear to be willing to try to bluff their way through it. The more people who write them, the tougher that gets.

]]> By: triticale http://xrlq.com/2004/10/19/other-liars-of-the-day-maura-reynolds-and-matea-gold/comment-page-1/#comment-6338 triticale Wed, 20 Oct 2004 13:00:08 +0000 http://xrlq.com/2004/10/19/1963/other-liars-of-the-day-maura-reynolds-and-matea-gold/#comment-6338 "Not that I'd actually use anything as tacky as military force, but since you did you should have done it perfectly." Fits right in with my notion that Kerry voted to authorize the use of force in Iraq purely as a saber to be rattled, and was caught off guard when Bush acted on it. “Not that I’d actually use anything as tacky as military force, but since you did you should have done it perfectly.”

Fits right in with my notion that Kerry voted to authorize the use of force in Iraq purely as a saber to be rattled, and was caught off guard when Bush acted on it.

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