What? WMD Found Where?

So yesterday comes the news that chemical weapons stockpiles have been discovered in Iraq. I know this only because I went for dinner at Qdoba and saw the breaking news on their TV tuned to FoxNews. I excitedly rushed back to the hotel and switched on the only news channel I had, CNN, to watch coverage. Guess what? No coverage. No coverage at all. Not even a mention of it from 8pm to 11pm CST last night.

This morning I was reading various news sites to get a feel for what had been discovered in the desert. Guess what? The BBC was running soccer scores as their top story alongside a thoroughly negative opinion-report on Afghanistan. Not a single word about chemical weapons found in Iraq. The CNN website? running a giant image of a polar bear with the Gore-esque hysterics about how hot the Earth is and how it is all Cheney's fault. Ok I added the bit about Cheney. But still.

Reuters? Not a word. Associated Press? Nada. Which, incidentally, is ironic given the AP's self-annointed role as "the bastion of the people's right to know around the world." Obviously that right only extends to issues that coincide with their ingrained biases.

You will find the story in two places that I am aware of. First, of course, Foxnews. Additionally you can read about the discovery via the Agence France-Presse wire at Breitbart.

Isn't it strange that the single definining domestic and international division of the past 3-4 years is totally ignored by the media when the story doesn't agree with their opinions and positions?

I can't wait for the retractions. Let's start with Hans Blix. He is on record as saying "we now know that there were no weapons of mass destruction" first to David Frost and then to Jim Lehrer. I want his retraction in print. I also want to see Dan Rather's tearful apology for claiming the same and for being an all around idiot in general. Micheal Moore, Al Franken, Bill Maher, John Kerry, Al Gore, Alec Baldwin, Helen Thomas, Howard Dean, Nancy Pelosi, Janeane Garofalo, the list goes on and on. YOU WERE ALL WRONG!

WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG!

You have all attacked the President for not admitting mistakes, so man up and let's hear your glorious chorus of apologies now! Let the retractions ring from the mountain tops!

The Duelfer report might be raised as something that should retract a similar statement, but of course the oft-misquoted report never said that there no wmd in Iraq. It simply said that there were none FOUND.

How can media outlets proclaim objectivity with any degree of credibility? The truth, of course, is they have neither objectivity nor credibility. They are the only ones who seem not to realize it.

You are finding no weapons here! I stake my career on it!

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As told by Christo on June 22, 2006 @ 12:32

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