Most reasonable Americans have no illusions where the media stands ideologically on the political spectrum. Whether it is a local newspaper or television station, or a larger international media conglomerate, such as the New York Times or MSNBC; it is only a matter time before the viewer is able to deduce that media’s bias in one direction or the other.
There is no better example of this than in a recent story published by the New York Times titled “U.S. Helps Remove Uranium From Iraq:”
There is no better example of this than in a recent story published by the New York Times titled “U.S. Helps Remove Uranium From Iraq:”
550 metric tons of uranium (yellow cake), enough to make 100 nuclear weapons, existed in Iraq at the time of the invasion, a fact that most news agencies were aware of for over 5 years. The New York Times had other things on their mind though while conveying this story to the world:
“The yellow cake removed from Iraq — which was not the same yellow cake that President Bush claimed, in a now discredited section of his 2003 State of the Union address, that Mr. Hussein was trying to purchase in Africa — is used in an early stage of the nuclear fuel cycle.”
Who cares which yellow cake it was!? It was the necessary component needed to make a nuclear bomb, but thanks to military intervention from Israel and the United States, the World was spared. But the scary part is that many American were completely unaware of this story, due in large part to the Left leaning, media bias in America.
Randall Hoven, at the American Thinker, had a perfect response to this (non-) story:
American Thinker: 550 Tons of Yellowcake Is Dangerous
The media has been playing fast and loose with truth and facts as it pertains to the War on Terror, which is a dangerous game. Just as this story was under reported, ignored or downplayed by the US media (most in the Canadian media covered the story as the lead), so have been other reports of Saddam’s WMD initiatives:
Fox News: National Ground Intelligence Report
The fact is not whether the WMD’s existed prior to 1991 (and may not work), or that the yellow cake posed no harm at the time it was seized is insignificant. Does anyone in their right mind believe that Saddam was going to use any of these materials for peaceful means? Would anyone like a hostile nation such as a Iran or Syria getting hands on this "harmless" yellow cake? And if the WMDs, such as the mustard and sarin nerve gas (that Saddam was not suppose to possess!) were no big deal, why did they need to be destroyed? Why not just place them on display in the front foyer of the New York Times? Oh, that’s right….according to the New York Times, WMDs don’t exist!
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550 Metric Tons of Yellowcake, what about it? (see video) US removes Uranium from Iraq, not what many assume, it was not discovered by the US and was not "WMD": see video http://tinyurl.com/6zdq3w
Tom,
Thanks for the video. I disagree strongly (as you could tell by my previous writings) with the information used within the link you provided. But it illustrates the point I was trying to make. The media didn’t report on the information correctly, downplaying or ignore key factors, thereby allowing rumor and misinformation to run rampant.
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