How much does the Strib suck?

UPDATE: Raw Story has a report up comparing the Straits of Hormuz "incident" to the faked Gulf of Tonkin attack in Vietnam. Strib: Still drumming up support for an attack.

The story about the Iranian speedboat incident in the Straits of Hormuz has only picked up steam in the past two days, with signs pointing to this being a false-flag incident created by the Bush administration to drum up support for an attack against Iran. Today, Friday, the Strib is still running with the same story about how the Bush admin has its dander up about the incident; it hasn't updated the story, nor run another one, despite huge news coming out, including the Pentagon itself now doubting its own communications. For one thing, the audio transmission, which the Pentagon paired up with its video, now turns out to NOT be from the speedboats, and the voice had an odd accent - certainly not Iranian.

And these things do have an impact. At the meeting of the moral and intellectual midgets (called a Republican Presidential debate) on Fox last night the candidates fell all over themselves over who would bomb Iran more quickly. I hereby nominate the Strib as minformer of the year.

Still in the news pages is movement conservative Katherine Kersten, who is such a bad writer that she can't even acknowledge that there are facts that might dispute her assertions. A good writer anticipates the criticism that might come of his or her work and tries to address them in his or her writing. Not Kersten. She just lies and lies, and no one at the Trib seems to care.

People sometimes ask me why I titled this blog the "Triumph of Conservative Philanthropy." The answer is because the conservative philanthropies have indeed triumphed - they've gotten virtually everything they've wanted, and the result has been failure all around. They've succeeded in getting people created by their movement into almost all traditional media, including the Strib, even though those people have no legitimate expectation to be there, i.e. Kersten is NOT A JOURNALIST - she is a Republican operative.

BTW - Brian Lambert plumbs some of these same waters today, asking why Doug Tice is the political editor at the Strib, despite his also being a dyed-in-the-wool conservative/Republican operative, who played just that role while at the PiPress. Good question.