THE MEME SPREADS

From Newsweek:

Wilson’s report seems to have vanished into the bureaucratic maw. In his January ’03 State of the Union address, President Bush, citing British intelligence reports, repeated the charge that the Iraqis were trying to buy uranium from Niger.

Not true. He said Africa. There’s an important difference. The writers of this story are excellent journalists. If they cannot get this right, what hope for the rest of the crew? The truth is: they have internalized this stuff. They don’t even see their own biases any more. Please keep sending me media mentions of Bush’s citation of Niger in his 2003 SOTU. If we can’t stop them spreading untruths, we can at least monitor them.