XRLQ Exclusive: Tomorrow’s News Today
The Angry Clam has the goods on the New York Dog Trainer’s non-story about the 380 tons of conventional explosives in the Al Qaqaa military facility, which See B.S. originally planned to run on the penultimate day of Dirty Trick Week. Since the New York Time broke its non-story, newspapers across the country (including mine,as well as the L.A. Dog Trainer, which is basically its New York counterpart minus the original research and the good writing), along with Senators Kerry and Edwards, have wrongly blamed on the Bush Administration. In fact, those explosives disappeared disappeared before U.S. troops arrived.
Now, my prediction. On Thursday, the L.A. Dog Trainer will run a long piece on the Iraqi quagmire, repeating uncorrected the claim that 380 tons of explosives disappeared from the Al Qaeda military facility, long after President Bush had sent troops into Iraq. Patterico will then send a polite email to “Readers” Representative Jamie Gold, informing her that the explosives actually disappeared shortly before our troops arrived last year, and that in any event, the facility is called Al Qaqaa, not al Qaeda. Gold will respond by thanking him for his comment, and then explaining that no correction is needed since there was a President Bush who sent troops into Iraq (albeit a larger version of Iraq, which includes Kuwait) more than a decade before the explosives disappeared. She will then explain that it’s the second President Bush’s fault, not her paper’s, that everyone keeps confusing Iraq with al-Qaeda.
October 26th, 2004 at 10:47 am
We should’ve expected a non story full of non facts to be widely disseminated by CNN, after all, that network gave Gore Florida 4 hours early in the 2000 campaign…
October 26th, 2004 at 1:34 pm
Xrlq
. . . gives us “tomorrow’s news today”— On Thursday, the L.A. Dog Trainer will run a long piece on the Iraqi quagmire, repeating uncorrected the claim that 380 tons of explosives disappeared from the Al Qaeda military facility, long…