Noel Sheppard has a devastating takedown of the media in the American Thinker today. He points out that Anthony Zinni, former general and current book pimp, has been widely quoted as saying he saw no evidence that Iraq had WMD.
One small problem; in this day and age, with all the research tools available to non-media types, it took about two minutes to come up with a briefing Zinni made to congress in 2000 in which he very emphatically stated that, "Iraq either possessed or was aggressively pursuing WMD."
Which of course makes Zinni's current statement a flat lie. Not a misstatement, not an error. A lie.
The media persists in conveniently forgetting the past when it does not fit the current agenda they are pushing. They continue to lose readership because people remember things better than the media does.
Yesterday it was widely reported that Harry Reid was taking the president to task for not going it alone on Iran. This would be the same Harry Reid who criticized Bush for his unilateral actions.
I suspect what we're seeing here is a case of Malevolent Mendacity.
Go read the whole thing
