Seattle Media Whore Slimes Jim McDermott and Howard Dean

Wow, I'm beginning to wonder if the Seattle Post-Intelligencer will join its inbred sibling, the Seattle Times, in endorsing George W. Bush next fall.

P-I columnist Robert Jamieson really dumped on "Baghdad Jim" McDermott in "McDuhmott's comments were way off-base"
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/153307_watered.html Jamieson blasted McDermott for shooting from the hip without the benefit of facts - a charge that might be partially true. But then Jamieson turns around and writes this crap:

"McDermott said something stupid -- something debunked by the facts as we know them.

"In nabbing Saddam, U.S. military leaders had to overcome Iraqi tradition that values tribal loyalties above all else; a fellow Iraqi had to narc on the ex-dictator. That takes time -- not, as Baghdad Jim suggests, political timing."

OK, I'll bite - what are the "facts as we know them"? Was Jamieson in Iraq to witness Saddam Hussein's capture, or is he accepting the word of George W. Bush as (giggle) "facts"?

One has to wonder if McDermott was even the Seattle P-I's primary target. Jamieson closes with this smelly thought:

"These days McDermott isn't alone in his embarrassing shows of intellectual flatulence.

"Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean not long ago asserted that Bush might have had advance warning of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Dean's words -- unsubstantiated, inflammatory and hurtful -- are unbecoming of a man who would be president."

Sheez, why mince words? Robert Jamieson is just another giant media fart brought to you by the originator of "yellow journalism," the Hearst empire.

I am intrigued by the notion that someone has detected emotion in George other than smug superiority and petty spite.

It would be a gift to humanity if he could provide evidence of this.

making hurtful possibility of facts about the warmonger bush? Besides, it wasn't Democrats who said they were starting a war propaganda office in the pentagon, that would be rummy. I don't believe one word that comes out of this corrupt bush administration.

on edit, what was the name of that war propaganda office rummy created? we should email the flacid media and remind them they're not supposed to be part of it.

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Jameson is one of that paper's leading liberal writers.

:-(

(Although it ought to be pretty embarrassing to be writing "'Baghdad Jim' McDermott has lost his mind" for suggesting that the capture of Saddam was staged the same day news emerges that, well, the capture of Saddam may have been staged...)

Might mention he won the last election by 70+% didn't he?

the PI had an article that was laudatory via Dean as well.

Not everything is an institutional conspiracy!