Judith Miller lectures the Pentagon: 'Maybe we should just believe everything they put out'
By David Neiwert Wednesday Oct 21, 2009 6:00am
Fox's Catherine Herridge has been reporting for a couple of weeks about the White House's change of policy regarding reporters' access to detainees at Guantanamo Bay, which while problematic from a journalist's perspective has all the earmarks of a classic bureaucratic conflict with reporters.
Herridge ran an update yesterday on Fox's Live Desk with Marsha MacCallum, including a clip of a Pentagon spokesman being short with Herridge, evidently, over her persistent questions on the issue. It looks like a tempest in a teapot, but Herridge is a serious reporter and her beef has some legitimacy, especially when it comes to transparency for this White House.
The interesting part of this report, though, came immediately after Herridge's report, when MacCallum hosted our old friend Judith Miller, the woman who helped bring you that six-years-and-running disaster on wheels known as the Iraq War. Miller decided that this Pentagon spokesman was in need of upbraiding:
MacCallum: What did you think of the Pentagon response there to Catherine's question?
Miller: You know, I thought, it's very combative. Excuse me, Mr. Pentagon Spokesman, for Fox doing our job. We're supposed to be there, we're supposed to be reporting on what the Pentagon is doing to and for these prisoners, or detainees, as they prefer to be called. And if he doesn't like our going back and back to look in on those people, well, maybe we should just believe everything they put out.
I found it completely combative, unnecessarily so.
So now we're being lectured on the relationship of reporters to official sources by the woman who was the faithful stenographer of Bush's Pentagon -- particularly Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld -- in selling the public on the notion that there were indeed weapons of mass destruction in the hands of Saddam Hussein. The woman who -- after the utter mendacity of her sources was revealed -- told an interviewer:
"[M]y job isn't to assess the government's information and be an independent intelligence analyst myself. My job is to tell readers of The New York Times what the government thought about Iraq's arsenal."
I don't have a problem with Fox reporters pushing for transparency from the Pentagon. I do have a problem with Judith Miller telling us how we should do that.
It sure is heart-warming, after all, to see Miller get concerned about looking into the accuracy of Pentagon claims -- though it does seem rather convenient that this is a concern of hers only now, now that we have a Democratic administration.
If she had demonstrated even an ounce of this concern during the Bush years, the nation might not have been talked into an outrageous, costly, and wholly unnecessary war.
James Moore wrote the ultimate survey of Miller's journalistic miscreancy.
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I bet she puts out alot.
She's just FOS!
If she's right about transparency see the stopped clock rule.
the clock being right twice a day, or having a face that could stop one.
in either case, it is most applicable
arrange for room and board at Gitmo for all Fox reporters so they can stay down there? Just don't allow them to leave.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3afiWbRGjK8
"[M]y job isn't to assess the government's information..."
Heaven forbid anyone do any actual "investigation" anymore.
And why is she bitching about Mr. Pentagon Spokesman? Just like any right wing hack she is a hypocrite and wants it both ways. I didn't even know she was still around. I thought she went to work for Scooter.
She likes sandwiches?
she's eyeballing a cock in that vid photo.
Faux Noise just doesn't require a college degree from these morons to be hired.
These days, what's the diff?
Judith Miller is, or should be, the Poster Child for the epic failure of journalism in the USA. With few exceptions, which I could count on my 10 fingers, there is no difference - they are shills for various elements of the Corporatist State. If they were mewing children instead of supposedly adult professional journalists, they would all be featured on the sides of milk cartons.
And the Corporatist-owned media complains about the loss of readers / viewers. What's next, a TARP-like bailout of the Corporatist propaganda machine? Or perhaps Rupert Murdock really believes that the USA public is abusing his bottom line - internet theft of his media?
ROFLMAO
Warmongering lying slut should wipe the blood off her hands before going public again.
in front of her office with a sign . . .
"Warmongering lying slut should wipe the blood off her hands before going public again"
Heck worse that could happen is you'll become a instant celebrity overnight.
That about sums it up. Can we forget about her now? That would irritate he more than anything. To be ignored.
Or arrested.
Again.
Maybe
EdithJudith can get a job with one of the Republicans for Rape. Certainly Fox is not her cup of tea."Transparency" right sure . . .
Lady Macbeth is nothing compared to Stenographer Judy!
Or:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9e3dTOJi0o
With Miller believing everything Scooter Libby put out, she sure has a lot of nerve now sarcastically saying Fixed News should "believe everything they put out." Due to her poor reporting, the lives have already been lost, the bodies maimed, the damage incurred. I can hardly believe she has the nerve to appear in public, but then, Miller must have chutzpah of the nth degree. Or she needs the money.
And were those FALSE EYELASHES I saw on Miller? She has truly been Fixed News-ified!
Were reporters allowed anywhere near Gitmo in the last 6-7 years? I think not.
flies. Time to do a Beck post!
you not only get rewarded by a getting paid to give "commentary" on Fox, but you get to become the journalism guru?
This is like naming the racist judge who didn't perform the interracial marriage in LA to SCOTUS.
If we had real journalism in this country, Judith Miller would have a hard time getting a job as short order cook at a truck stop on I-95 (my apologies to short order cooks everywhere).
Judith Miller is the reason I stopped reading the New York Times. If the "liberal"" paper of record can push us to war with propaganda, it is no longer a thoughtful product.
Im shocked that Judith has taken the Neo Con dick out of her lying assed mouth long enough to utter any more bullshit.
Now, Judith Miller wants to be a reporter again? sweet! I'm so happy that Judith Miller wants to be a reporter again and not a stenographer. I look forward to her explaining her role in the Valerie Plame leak. I also look forward to her explaining how she got WMD so wrong. She was the premier reporter on chemical and biological weapons in Iraq. She had all of these great sources. And she wasn't even close.
Yeah, her biggest "source" was Rummy.
Bullshit, the messiah is a liar. No one is above the law except the elitist torturers, bankers, and illegal warmongers. Transparency regarding wiretapping and constitutional dismantling, more bullshit. Transparency regarding the military buildup in Afghanistan and regarding Iran, an extra dose of bullshit.
transparency in the pentagon, traitors and not supporting the troops, just over a year ago?
i feel an imprecatory prayer coming on
send to fox and miller...
http://leadingtowar.com/
truth, spin, lies leading the US, to a
"war on terror"
plus, remember what they did? no one is above the law, remember?
check out this website..bush seemed to be above the law.
his "yellow cake" from nigeria?
this has all his speeches,
check it out.
Try this one out for size:
remember this one?
"Did Iraq Contractor Fleece American Taxpayers?"
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16909438/
the answer....big time..
"How are American soldiers the victims of the Bush regime war profiteers and the hate agenda of other countries"
http://curezone.com/forums/fm.asp?i=942767#i
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