MEMBER BLOG TAG: fact
| Friday, May 20, 2011 1:01PM | | | | Reality & hunt for Osama | Tags: George W. Bush, pundits, non-fact-based reality, Tea Party Nation, Judson Phillips, Dan Balz, Washington Post, CIA, Taliban, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Andy Card, Fox News, vigilance, Gen. Richard Myers, FAIR, USA Today, Pentagon, BIn Laden Unit, Michael F. Scheuer, New York Times, Counterterrorism Center, Government Accountability Office, McClatchy, John Yoo, Karl Rove, American Enterprise Institute, National Security Council, Tommy Vietor, Glenn L. Carle, KSM, National Security Archive, perception management, news media
| | | | It’s touching how diligently pundits and politicians of the non-fact-based reality persuasion try to rewrite the record of George W. Bush. For example: Tea Party Nation head Judson Phillips “said that the death of Osama bin Laden happened in spite of President Obama.” (Right Wing Watch 5/2/11) “Bush’s persistence was palpable and set the tone for the intelligence community tasked with bringing bin Laden to justice. (Dan Balz, Washington Post 5/2/11)
To make such statements one must ignore the opportunity before 9/11. “The Bush administration now had in its hands what one participant called ‘the holy grail’ of a three-year quest by the U.S. government – a tool that could kill bin Laden within minutes of finding him. The CIA planned and practiced the operation. But... | | | | | | | Thursday, April 28, 2011 1:35AM | | | | DE-GENTRIFY NEW YORK/Fire! | Tags: Hmm how about Kundera, thanks to Schulman, & Jane Jacobs instead?
“The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, only because, and only when
| | | | People can become New Yorkers but NY can't become someplace else." - Sarah Schulman
On the way home to finish this piece, there were firemen in front of my apt bldg. I sniffed. Whew acrid. “Did someone do something stupid again?” I said.
1st fireman laughed, sarcastic, “Oh no, not something stupid, not the plethora [old NYC education] of a--- who constantly waste our time.” A few months ago, a resident of a loft (made from 3 apts, the cruelty of dislodging many for few was mentioned by our PEN panel) in back of my small strange apt, ran down a woman in her late 70s, getting out of the fire they ignored chasing after their (smarter) dog ; he was... | | | | | | | Friday, April 27, 2007 2:00PM | | | | History and the Truth of Fiction | Tags: History, fact, truth, fiction, fact-checking, research
| | | History and the Truth of Fiction
This remarkable and often poignant session, attended by some 85 people, was moderated by the Irish writer Colum McCann. Participating novelists were Arthur Japin (The Netherlands), Laila Lalami (Morocco), Imma Monso (Catalan; she is also a journalist), and Michael Wallner (Germany; he is also a screenwriter).
To introduce the session, Mr. McCann gave us three quotations. The first, by William Maxwell, the beloved novelist and distinguished fiction editor at William Shawn’s New Yorker, was drawn from Mr. Maxwell’s novel So Long, See You Tomorrow. The quote is substantial and my copy of this beautiful book is not available right now, so I can’t present it fully and accurately... | | | | | |
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