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7. Thanks buster.. I knew it was going to be
Wed Feb 20, 2013, 06:24 PM
Feb 2013

Judith Miller. This is from Dec 2010.. I don't know if she's still there or what she's doing now..nor do I care.

Judith Miller: From the Times to the nuts


A former superstar reporter finds refuge among the right wing, who don't care how much she got wrong

[Updated]Judith Miller used to be a superstar. She was a major reporter at the New York Times for decades — at the DC bureau, in Cairo, in Paris, special correspondent to the Persian Gulf, embedded with a special unit in Iraq. She had the best sources. She had amazing scoops. Now she’s writing — on contract, not full-time — for Newsmax, a goofy right-wing magazine where conservatives you’ve never heard of (and John Stossel, apparently) report, constantly, that Barack Obama is bad and unpopular. It’s a steep fall, and it couldn’t have happened to a worse journalist.

Since her early days at the Times, when she inserted CIA misinformation into a piece on Libya, she’s always been a tool of power. She was the voice of the Defense Department, embedded at the Times. She was hyping bullshit stories about Iraq’s WMD capabilities as far back as 1998, and in the run-up to the war, her front-page scoops were cited by the Bush administration as evidence that Saddam needed to be taken out, right away.


[font color=red]And now she writes for Newsmax, also the home of this guy with an eyepatch who calls himself a “global economic warrior” and used to be married to Peggy Noonan.[/font]

http://www.salon.com/2010/12/30/judy_miller_newsmax/
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