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Looks like I am going to Santa Fe, New Mexico in late-April. Yay! Barbi and Arnett are going, so Cathy and I decided we would go at the same time (don't worry, we were invited to tag along. I just had to wait and see if John and I were going to get back together or not). We�re not staying with them (not even at the same hotel) and we probably won�t spend our whole trip with them, but we will hang out with them some, I�m sure. Arnett is a big-time fishing enthusiast, so we�ll more than likely kidnap Barbi while he�s fishing.
Big t.v. events last night...first of all, the two-hour finale of Temptation Island (yes, I am degenerate enough to watch that show. Wanna make something of it?). This was followed by the premier of Real World/Roads Rules Challenge � The Gauntlet.
Actually, I wasn�t all that thrilled with either show. I just have nothing else I want to talk about right now, so I thought I�d mention them.
Oh, but by the way...Newlyweds? Greatest Show Ever.
Tonight I am going out to dinner with a couple of gal-pals. Tomorrow is my mom�s birthday (happy birthday Mommy!). It is also Kucinich Meet Up night, folks! Look for a Meetup in your area; check out the crowd; have some conversations. Maybe you�ll find out you support the man.
Hasta!
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Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting Media analysis, critiques and activism.
ACTION ALERT:
Another Falsehood on Iraq Goes Unchallenged
September 29, 2003
On a weekend when the Bush administration's pre-war intelligence on Iraq was a major topic on the Sunday talkshows, Secretary of State Colin Powell re-circulated a false story about United Nations weapons inspectors being kicked out of Iraq in 1998. Some major media outlets let Powell's comments pass without comment or correction.
On ABC's This Week (9/27/03), Powell explained that the Clinton administration "conducted a four-day bombing campaign in late 1998 based on the intelligence that he had. That resulted in the weapons inspectors being thrown out."
The actual history is much different. On December 15, 1998, the head of the U.N. weapons inspection team in Iraq, Richard Butler, released a report accusing Iraq of not fully cooperating with inspections. The next day, Butler withdrew his inspectors from Iraq, in anticipation of a U.S.-British bombing campaign that began that evening. Neither George Stephanopoulos nor George Will, who conducted ABC's interview, corrected Powell's false assertion.
In reporting on the interview, the New York Times merely repeated Powell's charge (9/29/03): "Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, in a television appearance today, noted that the Iraqi leader threw weapons inspectors out in 1998, making it more difficult for intelligence agencies to get hard information." The Los Angeles Times (9/29/03), meanwhile, paraphrased Powell's words to make them more factually accurate, prefacing his quote with the statement that "U.N. weapons inspectors had left Iraq in 1998 and did not return until late last year." The quote immediately follows, giving readers the misimpression that Powell accurately conveyed this background.
As the Bush administration's false statements about Iraq have become a public controversy, it is reasonable to expect journalists to point out continuing misinformation on Iraq by senior Bush administration officials. If New York Times editors were interested in correcting the record, all they would have to do is re-print a correction they ran over three years ago (2/2/00): "A front-page article yesterday... on Iraq misstated the circumstances under which international weapons inspectors left that country before American and British air strikes in December 1998. While Iraq had ceased cooperating with the inspectors, it did not expel them. The United Nations withdrew them before the air strikes began."
ACTION: Please contact ABC's This Week and the New York Times and encourage them to correct Powell's false statements.
CONTACT:
ABC's This Week: mailto:[email protected]
New York Times
Toll free comment line: 1-888-NYT-NEWS
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THE DAILY MIS-LEAD:
TAX CUTS LEAD TO LARGEST DEFICIT EVER IN COMPLETE REVERSAL OF BUSH'S PREDICTIONS
Despite President Bush's assurance in 2001 that his tax cuts "could happen without fear of budget deficit, even if the economy softens," the estimated $455 billion budget deficit this fiscal year will be the highest in U. S. history.
In the President's 2002 State of the Union message he tried to shift blame onto Congress, saying "our budget will run a deficit that will be small and short-term so long as Congress restrains spending," but earlier this month he admitted his tax cuts account for 25% of the deficit.
Read the full Mis-Lead here.
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Word of the Day for Tuesday September 30, 2003:
atrabilious at-ruh-BIL-yuhs, adjective:
1. Melancholic; gloomy.
2. Irritable; ill-natured; peevish.
Quote A Day:
If you love people enough, they will respond lovingly. If I offend people, I blame myself, for I know that if my conduct had been correct, they would not have been offended even though they did not agree with me. Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound. --Peace Pilgrim
Fact of the Day:
English words are connected by just three degrees of separation! Word association can link just about any two common words in the English language using an average of three steps, says a team of scientists in Arizona. The semantic links between English words make the thesaurus a 'small world', much as the network of human social interactions connect us all by six degrees of separation.
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