It started with Lara
Logan sending out an email asking for people to write CBS to get them to
air some controversial video, which is shown above. What she got in return was a wingnut attack.
Michelle Malkin is at it again. It doesn\’t matter how many times we catch her spreading fabricated nonsense, she just keeps on inventing things. I caught her last summer when she went after Clinton. Malkin didn\’t plan on me having actually audio that proved she and Hot Air were lying.
Lara Logan is risking her life every day, but when she makes a plea that CBS
news cover one particular story and they say no, Michelle Malkin accuses her
of lifting the film from — wait for it — Al Qaeda. Mind you she has
no proof and neither do all the bloggers to whom she links. Instead, she smears
a journalist living out in the open and risking her life to bring us the truth
about Iraq.
But Malkin doesn\’t stop there, but goes on to compare Logan\’s perceived crime
with Insight magazine\’s latest slur against Barack Obama. You just can\’t make
this stuff up.
Logan isn\’t some prima donna imbed under military cover either. Read
Nitpicker, who worked with Logan in Afghanistan.
Honestly, it\’s hard to know where to start with this one, so I\’ll start with
one email I got yesterday after Malkin\’s scurilous attack on Logan.
As you suggested, I have emailed CBS regarding Lara\’s piece \’Battle for Haifa
Street.\’ I asked them to consider firing her. Some of \’her\’ footage seems
to have come from an Al Qaeda website, although, admittedly, she may have
gotten the material directly from them rather than their site.She is beginning to look like another Dan Rather or Jayson Blair, an embarrassment
to the news profession.RachelleY.
Rachelle Y. is just another conservative reader of the wingnut blogs who evidently doesn\’t need
any proof and just takes what Malkin says at face value. Malkin\’s readers swallow
her swill word for word, without any questions or evidence. It mimics online what Rush and Sean have been doing for years: feeding bs to their listeners.
Here\’s what CBS\’s Public Eye offered on the controversy late yesterday:
I asked CBS News Vice President Paul Friedman about the video.
\”I can assure you this was not from Al-Qaeda,\” said Friedman, who
declined to identify the source. \”Whenever we can identify the source
of information or video, we want to do that,\” he added. \”There are
some rare cases when we have to protect the source. In this case, we needed
to do so, because it’s literally a matter of life and death.\”\”The fact that same video shows up in more than one place is something
that happens every day,\” said CBS News spokeswoman Sandra Genelius. \”We
occasionally use video from an Al-Qaeda Web site and we identify it. In this
case, we didn\’t get it from Al-Qaeda, so we didn\’t identify it as such.\”
We can believe CBS, or better yet, Lara Logan, a renowned journalist, or Michelle
Malkin. Offer proof that Logan is lying, Ms. Malkin, or don\’t make charges you cannot prove. Linking to others who also have no proof doesn\’t get the job done. It\’s irresponsible, but of course you don\’t care.
Your reputation is shot, so why not ruin someone else\’s as well?
Funny how after offering the CBS Private Eye update yesterday afternoon, Malkin has suddenly gone silent on Logan. We\’ll see how long that lasts.
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