Super-Journalist Seymour Hersh has published a hell of a story in the London Review of Books about the killing of Osama bin Laden that, had it actually included any significant sources willing to go on the record, would totally change everything we think we know about the 2011 raid in Pakistan. As it is, it reads like a pretty good action thriller, or maybe a post at Alex Jones's Infowars, except written by a Pulitzer Prize winner. According to Hersh, a "retired senior intelligence official" who knows all the dirt on the raid revealed to him that almost everything we thought we knew about bin Laden's death is fake, that Barack Obama was in such a rush to take credit for the raid that he announced it too early, and that Obama lied when he said the Pakistanis had no advance knowledge of the raid. And if we had any confidence in Seymour Hersh anymore, we'd be shocked. Shocked!
No. you don't honk your own nose so wonket sounds to me like you're going up to someone and...you get it. So, if there's a female version, you walk up and give it a pinch, what noise would that be?
I read that Hersch book about JFK based on his (Hersch's) rep and it was way beyond disappointing. The thing made me feel ill. It really did. So ugly. I quit it about a third of the way through. It was sick. This once-great investigative journo has developed some sort of serious mental disorder as far as I can tell.
Ugh! I hate having to play the "sincere" one here, but while this "shocking exclusive" sounds sketchy as is, so does the "official" report. Now I know that the government is so trustworthy about issues like this, that people have little reason to doubt their veracity (Jessica Lynch says "Hi!") I mean yes relying on a " anonymous source" smacks of Us Weekly journalism ( maybe this "source" Hersh is using also has the scoop on which Kardashian is releasing her sex tape this week), but given the type of stories Wonkete mocks, you'd think a little skepticism about "the official line" would be welcomed.
It's almost as if Obama and his team didn't want anything released that might inspire further violence—what better cover for keeping our sorely misunderstood, murderous mastermind pal alive, right? Besides, it's so much more fun to keep Bin Laden hidden in a Motel Six somewhere, where lucky "insiders" get to drop in and watch Let's Make A Deal with the man our national security agencies spent years tracking down in order to kill. Derp on them!
He met a guy in a saloon and he had a good story. That's enough isn't it?
A newspaperman I know had something to say about unsourced reports the other day:
http://www.peterlewis.com/2...
Explains jade helms 15.
My source says Bill O'Reilly killed OBL.
Ooops. Shoulda read a couple inches down before I posted THE EXACT SAME THING in a response a couple of seconds ago.
That source being Bill himself, of course.
No. you don't honk your own nose so wonket sounds to me like you're going up to someone and...you get it. So, if there's a female version, you walk up and give it a pinch, what noise would that be?
All the upvotes!
If they wanted to do WORK they'd have taken real jobs.
I read that Hersch book about JFK based on his (Hersch's) rep and it was way beyond disappointing. The thing made me feel ill. It really did. So ugly. I quit it about a third of the way through. It was sick. This once-great investigative journo has developed some sort of serious mental disorder as far as I can tell.
To me it sounds like the name of a home-made tool used for removing crankshaft dampeners from Buick engines.
Remember when they used to use elaborate mail drops and coded messages in the newspapers? Good times.
Daffy Duck?
Up Here the slightly-less-far-to-the-right-than-the-Toronto-Sun National Post seems to be reporting this as straight news. Which surprises no-one.
Ugh! I hate having to play the "sincere" one here, but while this "shocking exclusive" sounds sketchy as is, so does the "official" report. Now I know that the government is so trustworthy about issues like this, that people have little reason to doubt their veracity (Jessica Lynch says "Hi!") I mean yes relying on a " anonymous source" smacks of Us Weekly journalism ( maybe this "source" Hersh is using also has the scoop on which Kardashian is releasing her sex tape this week), but given the type of stories Wonkete mocks, you'd think a little skepticism about "the official line" would be welcomed.
It's almost as if Obama and his team didn't want anything released that might inspire further violence—what better cover for keeping our sorely misunderstood, murderous mastermind pal alive, right? Besides, it's so much more fun to keep Bin Laden hidden in a Motel Six somewhere, where lucky "insiders" get to drop in and watch Let's Make A Deal with the man our national security agencies spent years tracking down in order to kill. Derp on them!