Brooks Admits He Picked Facts ‚Äö√Ñ√≤Out Of The Air’ To Defend Bush’s Iraq Policy
[O]n this week’s Meet the Press, New York Times columnist David Brooks admitted to using a made-up statistic in order to argue against withdrawal from Iraq. Specifically, Brooks rehashed the right-wing talking point that withdrawal in Iraq would certainly lead to “genocide,” alleging that 10,000 Iraqis a month would die after redeployment. But Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward quickly forced Brooks’ to admit his statistics were baseless…. Brooks has long been a ready advocate of Bush’s foreign policy failures. In January, he defended Bush’s rosy whitewashing of Iraq war history as “accurate.” Last week, he walked away from a meeting with the President entranced by Bush’s “unconquerable faith in the rightness of his Big Idea.”
I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised. Right-wingers can’t present a cogent argument for continuing the war in Iraq, so now one of their most notable apologists has been reduced to pulling numbers out of his @$$. So many on the right have been so dishonest for so long that the simple act of opening their mouth must feel as if their telling the truth.
It’s not bad enough that we have a President who’s been lying to us for the past six years. Now we have his apologists weaving arguments out of whole cloth…and yet no one seems to be demanding accountablity. These thugs are free to lie, spin, and propagandize all they choose, with no fear of being held to account for their prevarications. No wonder this country is in such a (&^%$#-up mess, eh?
I suppose I should really be taking notes. After all, Brooks and the rest of King George the Worst’s © propaganda corps managed to convince more than 54 million Americans to vote for The Decider © in 2004. P.T. Barnum was right- there really is a sucker born every minute…and they vote Republican, because it apparently beats the Hell out of thinking.
