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:: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 ::
Rathergate "Haste" Joins Kings of Spindoc Humbug
The spindoc life preserver word “haste” has been unfurled like a blanket spread over an inconvenient corpse to explain the motivation of CBS News in using and stoutly defending bogus documents to influence the recent presidential election.
The independent investigators reported no “political bias” as motivation of the crowd of long-time Bush haters involved.
As Jonah Goldberg commented in National Review Online “’haste’” was the ‘enemy.’” It was “haste” that caused fake reporting, sloppy checking, the wildly risky decision to proceed with a flawed story and the subsequent stonewalling and continuing cover-up spinspeak by soon-to-be “retired” CBS Anchor Dan Rather.
“Haste” now joins the spindoc lexicon as plastertalk for: “we are sorry that we did it because it didn’t work, but don’t be hard on us because we really are only guilty of being pressured by competition to work too quickly.”
As shameless plastertalk, "haste" is not as powerful as those kings of spindoc humbug “mistakes were made” and “time to move on,” but it is definitely in the same league.
:: James Baar 1/11/2005 09:39:00 AM [+] ::
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