[lit-ideas] Re: Tipping Point of Truth
- From: Robert Paul <robert.paul@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2006 14:41:35 -0800
Lawrence Helm wrote:
As the evidence from the Saddam tapes and corroborating witnesses such
as General Sada mount, many of us are asking the question, when will the
Major Media acknowledge this new evidence? I’ve also wondered why the
administration hasn’t acknowledged this evidence supporting their
earlier beliefs. I had begun to wonder whether the Republicans were
waiting until some crucial point prior to the 2006 elections to hammer
the democrats with this stuff, but Cucullu has a different idea.
[Then, quoting]
When will honest journalists in the print and TV media – there must be
some out there –bow under the weight of this mounting evidence and
concede their errors? We have passed the tipping point in the weight of
evidence that vindicates the allegations of al Qaeda ties, WMD, and
hostile intentions. Continued denial of the truth is unacceptable.
You believe in a vast, 'mainstream media' conspiracy, Lawrence, while
damning the rest of us as 'conspiracy theorists.' The article you posted
for us, one paragraph of which I've reproduced above, nowhere answers
the questions you raise, viz., why hasn't the Administration made hay
out of these new discoveries? There are two plausible answers. The
Administration isn't as credulous as are Right Wing bloggers; and, if
some of the material in the tapes turns out to be credible this would
reveal that the Administration went to war in ignorance.
While implicitly condemning the 'Major Media,' you accept without
question, apparently, the writings of Larry Elder. There would seem to
me to be at least one significant difference between Elder (whom I'm
using only as an example) and The New Yorker (which I'm using only as an
example). The New Yorker has and uses fact checkers; Larry Elder does
not. I say 'there would seem' to be this difference: I have no doubt
that Larry Elder has, as all those who make a living expressing their
views in public have, someone who checks his claims from a legal point
of view.
It's strange to me that someone of your analytic powers and concern for
sound reasoning would fail to see that the difficulty I posed to you
last night hasn't been resolved:
You cannot believe both that the CIA dramatically failed and that Bush
told the truth.
Robert Paul
The Reed Institute
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