Truth Good
The great thing about this business is, you always get a second chance. To smack around a world-class moron.
Bobbing to the surface again is CNN’s ex-president Eason Jordan, who resigned in disgrace in 2005 after telling lies about U.S. war crimes, suddenly interested in the truth from Iraq.
Because I had personally witnessed the circumstances leading up to two journalists’ deaths in Iraq, later falsely portrayed as a war crime, I was somewhat agitated by Eason’s remarks. This is what I had to say about Eason, CJR’s Steve Lovelady, CPJ and RSF at the time.
Mudville Gazette invited me to elaborate. It was my pleasure.
From Spain, where a war crimes investigation against U.S. soldiers remains open, Barcepundit delivers the truth about death in Iraq en Espanol.
Jay Rosen had a good round up of the Lies and Fall of Jordan Eason.
I actually crossed e-paths with Eason a couple of times. The first time was when he revealed that CNN had soft-pedalled on Saddam’s torture thing in order to be able to stay in Iraq and report Saddam’s lies. That was the same week I was accused of being an International Art Thief from al-Jazeera to Pravda to the New York Times. Poynter Institute Ethicist Bob Steele equivocated about Jordan’s tolerance for torture, while roundly condemning my purloining of a cheap Saddam painting. Cut on the Bias thought it would be fun to change the names around and see what happened.
Cut on the Bias was right. It was fun. In the ethics department, what Eason is to shamelessness, Steele is to gutlessness.
While I’m at it, I should add I’m no fan of Greg Mitchell, the shrill leftie E&P editor who penned this latest drivel about Eason.
Welcome Instapundit readers surfing in via my pal the Confederate Yank! Welcome Malkinistas! Now that we’ve dispensed with Eason’s shamelessness, here’s mine: go vote for “Best New Blog.”
Michelle, of course, has accepted Eason’s invitation for an expenses-paid trip to Iraq to search for Capt. Jamil Hussein. Great spirit, Michelle, but I’d caution against any involvement with a shitbird of this particular feather. He thinks he can find the elusive Jamil? Let him.
Thanks for the headsup on this latest Easonian slithering last night, LGF
My pal Don Surber thinks he’s a jerk, too.
Good Lt at Jawa shares my appreciation for Mitchell’s turn of sucky phrase.
Capt Ed says this is something you must read to believe
Re Hussein, Confederate Yankee suggests the AP’s Kathleen Carroll consider investing in disposable cameras.
Elis spank AP re Jamil, via ConfYank, who is formidable in the righteousness of his Jihad.
Thomas of American Thinker examines Eason and Rathergates
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Posted by Jules Crittenden at 1:24 am on Thursday, December 14, 2006
9 Responses to “Truth Good”
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December 14th, 2006 at 11:01 am
Good stuff, Jules.
December 14th, 2006 at 11:08 am
Hey Matt, how’s that boat coming?
December 14th, 2006 at 11:53 am
I think a solipsistic and supercilious twit like you should stay away from commenting on the credibility of others, n’est-ce pas?
What is it with the Cretindens anyway? Is it genetic?
December 14th, 2006 at 1:26 pm
ti - (t)otal (i)ignoramus ?
Could be.
December 14th, 2006 at 3:22 pm
Ouch! But at least brief…not like the long-winded burbling blather coming from Cretinden.
December 14th, 2006 at 6:04 pm
gosh, this ti-guy is almost bilingwal, I am so impressed with its French Frame of Mind, I faint like Camille.
Anyway.. Jules, tell us what you REALLY think about ol’Eason!
December 14th, 2006 at 9:11 pm
I think Ti-Guy has an irrefutable point here: It’s obvious that anybody whose name you make fun of must lack credibility. I mean, that’s totally one of the cornerstones of like formal logic, and stuff?
But don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying he’s a vacuous knucklehead or anything.
December 14th, 2006 at 11:28 pm
I’m not saying he’s a vacuous knucklehead or anything.
Better not be. They’re unionized these days you know. You wouldn’t want a couple of pipe hitting knuckle dragger’s taking you in for a tune up now would you ;->
See, I thought you’d see this in a different perspective ;->
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