Feedback: Downing Street Memo
Wednesday, June 22, 2005 - 02:40 PM
Subject: Bush's intentions
I'm sorry, I have as much distaste for Bush and his policies and actions as most of your left-leaning listeners, but since when is it an impeachable offense to "have in mind" to want to defeat an evil dictator, or even just anyone. Fraudulent documents or statements are certainly bad things, but come on, it is not illegal to have an agenda!
-JT
Subject: bloggers
i think it is a mistake to include bloggers -- left or right -- in a discussion as sensitive as that attending the downing street memos.
unlike the london times reporter, bloggers answer to no editors but themselves and are free to "report" unchallenged whatever pleases them.
-FB
Subject: use of the verb to "fix" in the UK
There is an uncommon British English usage of the verb to fix in the sense that Christopher Hitchens used it -- to establish. It is present in the financial markets, specifically in the metals trading on the London Metals Exchange.
Still, the attempt to extrapolate that rare usage into this case is disingenuous. As someone who has lived nearly as much of her life in the UK as the US, I can't imagine any Brit of my acquaintance applying that definition to this example. Unless, of course, they were trying to "fix" the facts to support their theories...
-SM
Subject: downing street
in your efforts to be fair you are really going over the top with questioning the authenticity of the memos. if they were fake someone would have exposed that fact by now. this is a typical right wing smear agagainstnformation and facts that they disagree with.
-RW
Subject: In That Clip Doesn't Blair Say the Memo is Real?
Your conservative guest said that Blair never said the memo was real: "Let me remind you that that memorandum was written beforeā¦" Isn't that acknowledgement? Then he tells a lie about Sadam complying with the U.S.
-SM
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