Ken Bazinet, The Virginian Pilot and Other Paid Liars

Ken Bazinet is a “journalist” in the currently accepted meaning of the word. In other words he is a paid liar.

He begins his lies with: “President Bush vowed to fire anyone caught blabbing classified information to the media, but he himself was the leaker-in-chief, a former top White House aide testified.”

Unfortunately for this paid liar, the testimony of Lewis Libby does not say this.

The only people who use the word “leak” in the document entitled “Government’s Response to Defendant’s Third Motion to Compel Discovery” are the prosecutor and various press accounts. Furthermore, the President has the power to classify and declassify information and his decision to allow Mr. Libby to discuss a National Intelligence Estimate of the dangers posed by the Saddam regime is not a “leak.”

Paid liar Bazinet continues the “leak” theme throughout his story. Only in the bizarre world of “journalism by paid liars” is this kind of corruption rewarded. If you have the stomach for it, you can read the whole twisted mass of lies HERE.

Paid liar Bazinet is not, of course, the only member of the “journalism” community to repeat this refrain. My own Virginian Pilot has an editorial on this subject.

Why this sudden and super-hypocritical “journalistic” attacks on “leaks?” It all gets back to George Bush and the war in Iraq. The press hates Bush and hates the war on poor Saddam and his murderous thugs. So when the press attacks Bush’s credibility on the war, on terrorism, and the dangers posed by Islamofacism, he is supposed to shut up and take it. Declassifying and providing intelligence estimates to reporters to prove the threat are forbidden. The almighty “press” is the only medium by which the American people should be allowed to have their information delivered and their opinions spoon fed and pre-digested.

In their dreams.

Jeff Goldstein of Protein Wisdom has more:

Now we witness the astonishing spectacle of newspapers trying to spin a scandal out of a legal disclosure of information to the press. GayPatriot aptly describes it as “the Orwellian worldview of Bush-haters where releasing facts means having something to hide.” Maybe we can’t expect better from political partisans, but journalists are supposed to stand for the neutral principle of the public’s right to know. If they pervert that principle in the pursuit of a partisan program, they will find it harder to assert it when it serves their purposes, whatever those purposes may be.

And from Captain Ed:

Why did George Bush release the NIE at all? Because Joe Wilson had busied himself by spreading misinformation via leaks to Nick Kristof and Walter Pincus, and then finally under his own by-line at the New York Times twelve days prior to the release of the NIE information. The media had demanded answers to the charges leveled by Wilson and his supporters, and those answers were found in the NIE. The decision to declassify it and publish it came as a result of that demand. Once the decision is made to declassify information, it can be released in any number of ways. This was both leaked and openly presented in the same fortnight.