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fine print.
I've already called Kennedy's and Pryor's offices about this. They're inevitably going to be hit with "gotcha" questions by the Tim Russerts and the Chris Matthewses and the Wolf Blitzers, picking up on rummy's lead of "this was announced to the world on January 14th, and it was announced to the world again in March..." rummy was trying to throw it back on THEM for being negligent (HA!, Pot, meet kettle!) in that they missed this and did nothing about it, and in effect, they knew about it way in advance, too.
Well, fine then.
Here's how they need to respond: "it's funny that YOU as a reporter/interviewer/talk show host/media person/news anchor would bring this up. Because frankly, we mustn't forget that the MEDIA missed this one, too. If indeed this WAS 'announced to the world' in mid January, and "announced to the world again" in March, weren't YOU in that world, too? Where were you on this? Why weren't you jumping all over this then, instead of being jolted awake only when these pictures got leaked?"
THAT'S what you say. THAT'S how you respond. THAT'S how you win the "gotcha" game. The media is EVERY BIT AS GUILTY HERE, FOR BEING AS ASLEEP AT THE SWITCH AS ANYBODY rUMMY ACCUSED OF BEING SO, ON THAT PANEL. I wrote an email to Joe Scarborough about this, too, after seeing him spinning this all to heck after the Senate panel hearing finished. Joe, YOU were on the air then, with your talk show. YOU were in "the world" when these announcements were made. WHERE WERE YOU?
The media IS SEVERELY TO BLAME for this as well. I say this as a retired member of that media. THEY missed it, too, and thus did a GROSS disservice to America, our troops, those abused prisoners, and "the world." HOW much sooner could we have gotten to the bottom of this, had the media done its job, and been watchdogs rather than lapdogs?
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