Monday, March 6, 2006

"AP KATRINA BRIEFING STORY - RATHERGATE CONNECTION"

HatTip to Wizbang. The amusing liberal press... from Wizbang's page:

Yesterday, in looking at the AP piece on the Bush Katrina briefings (Rewriting Katrina History - AP Style), I had this to stay about the AP\'s work:

...[I]t has all the hallmarks of the Bush Air National Guard story on 60 Minutes II by Dan Rather and Mary Mapes. The AP has dressed up mundane video to try and prove that President Bush (and everyone else) knew that the levees in New Orleans were going to breech. The problem is the evidence they present in their story to make that point does nothing of the sort.

It turns out that there\'s much more to that analogy than even I knew at the time. Have a look at the byline to the AP story:

By MARGARET EBRAHIM and JOHN SOLOMON

Here's an interesting detail on someone who certainly looks like one of the story authors from the French-American Foundation's membership roles:

Margaret Ebrahim (2003)
Producer
CBS News, 60 Minutes II


This CBS News page confirms that a Margaret Ebrahim was a 60 Minutes II producer in 2005. Ironically it was Mary Mapes who gave her away... (full post)

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