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As always, focusing on the least important issues.
I was hoping that the Huckabee smearing will focus on issues of substance. I was hoping that his foreign policy will be examine and that things like this will be picked by the MSM:
Kuhn: I don’t know to what extent you have been briefed or been able to take a look at the NIE report that came out yesterday …
Huckabee: I’m sorry?Kuhn: The NIE report, the National Intelligence Estimate on Iran. Have you been briefed or been able to take a look at it —
Huckabee: No.
Kuhn: Have you heard of the finding?
Huckabee: No. [bold mine DL; ed.-doesn’t he read the newspaper?]
Kuhn then summarized the NIE finding that Iran had stopped work on a clandestine nuclear program four years ago and asked if it “adjusts your view on Iran in any sense.”
Kuhn: What is your concern on Iran as of now?
Huckabee: I’ve a serious concern if they were to be able to weaponize nuclear material, and I think we all should, mainly because the statements of Ahmadinejad are certainly not conducive to a peaceful purpose for his having it and the fear that he would in fact weaponize it and use it. (He pauses and thinks) I don’t know where the intelligence is coming from that says they have suspended the program or how credible that is versus the view that they actually are expanding it. … And I’ve heard, the last two weeks, supposed reports that they are accelerating it and it could be having a reactor in a much shorter period of time than originally been thought. [bold mine-DL; ed.-this ought to discredit him utterly, and maybe it will.]
Or maybe his fiscal policies, or his religious fundamentalism and how will it effect his presidency.
But the focus of the main stream media, as always been, is on the least important story of all. It is safe, generates headline and nobody actually need to think.
Facts checking
It is nice to remind the MSM that the rules of the game are changing. Nasty biased remarks, mostly when they are unfounded, will be challenged and one’s professional credibility will be on the line.
(Via LRC)