Dafydd,

Do you really expect the big left wingnut media leopard to change his spots or tell us peasants ;) the truth?

It'd be nice if they did, though.

The editors were too busy bending down before their Moslem censors to catch that little lie that bimbette slid into their story. After all, the MSM was so worried about Moslem sensitivity when they went wall-to-wall with the Abu Ghraib photos and lied about the Koran's treatment in Gtmo.
I mean, why shouldn't a 'journalist' just keep on the lie that she has ridden so far?

MSM writers, while actively political and overwhelmingly Dimocrats, aren't pounding this mantra only because of their political opposition to Republicans or President Bush (or "King George" as they are wont to say). Nor are their editors passing everything through Islamic censors, at least not just yet.

Why then do MSM writers so consistently say this stuff, sounding nearly like automotons when they do-- even when it's increasingly obvious few Americans are buying this BS.

The explanation is that most of these writers are simple, and easily influenced by the manners of the profession's "cool kids". Most newspaper writers and editors seem to be nothing more than morons who can write, truthfully, and these rain-men are only following the linguistic mode of their profession. They're nothing more than a bunch of Peter Griffens following editor Stewie's lead. At first, it was only a sort of ideological fashion for the journalistic intelligentsia to refer to this vital NSA program, a program that has in many cases saved their own lives since these clowns overwhelmingly live in NYC, L.A. or D.C., as "domestic spying", but somewhere along the way it became de rigeur in all such stories; so much so that they all do it now.

These writers are the grown-up versions of the kids to whom mothers had to give the "would you follow the cool kids right off a cliff, if they told you to go?" speech repeatedly-- because the answer always seemed to be, "Um...yes?".

Can you imagine the absolute amazement Joel Stein's mother must have felt when he successfully got a first job, much less became a columnist and "humorist" for a respected national publication? She probably had a stroke. I was raised to believe the best of others until proven otherwise, so I'm giving her the benefit of the doubt. You can't blame her for the dimness of her offspring, just like you can't hold Mamma Dionne responsible for little EJ or Mrs. Mapes to account for Mary.

When Dan Rather admitted his Texas Air Guard story was based on "faked" evidence but maintained the story was still somehow "true", the evident conflict (not to mention the journalistic hypocrisy) totally escaped his notice (and that of many other MSM leading lights). He thought, and thinks (!),he was justified in broadcasting the story and would do it again. Why? Because he's stupid, that's why. And, many of his professional colleagues are right in there with him!

So this bimbo a just another run-of-the-mill dummy. On behalf of her relieved mother, though, I think we can all feel some satisfaction and pride she was able to get a job. There's room in our big-tent economy for everybody.

(PS: Sorry for the length- won't do it agan.)

I think MTF mostly has the right of it, but this leads me into my riff on intelligence and stupidity.

While IQ is well modeled by the score on a proper IQ test, the relationship between IQ and "general intelligence" (hereafter "g") is not really well understood. Clearly IQ and g are related; but how, exactly?

Some people who score poorly on IQ tests nevertheless are so clever at various tasks (and not just idiot-savants, either) that one would have to conclude their g is nevertheless very high; and of course, all of us know people who fail miserably at everything -- except taking IQ tests.

My guess is that Jennifer Loven, if she took a standard IQ test, would score somewhere between 115 and 120: not genius level but above average. And yet she has a hard time with what ought to be simple concepts: for example, that eavesdropping on a phone call between Lodi or Lackawanna on one end and Karachi or Kandahar on the other is an example of "domestic spying," or that Mohammed Atta was an "American" because he was in the United States (on a fraudulent visa obtained via a false passport and perjured information as to his reason to be in Florida -- and expired, to boot).

Loven -- who is a Democratic flack, by the way, and clearly has an ulterior motive -- nevertheless imagines that people will accept these two memes... despite the fact that everybody knows that foreigners come to America and that if someone in the U.S. picks up the phone and calls Mexico, that is an international call, not domestic long distance.

Even given her obvious political inclinations, this is a perfect example of being "stuck on stupid." Rather than further her cause, such blatant and easily noticed misrepresentations hurt it... which is why the more real Americans hear about the NSA al-Qaeda intercept program, the more they say, "yeah, that's the sort of dot-connecting we should have been doing before 9/11; keep it up!"

Yet again, I'll bet she would do well on an IQ test, and she probably did well in school. (Though of course in a journalism major, I'm guessing; and being snarky about my guess!)

Dafydd

"Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by stupidity."

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