Fox News Hires Disgraced Reporter Judith Miller
Fox News Hires Disgraced Reporter Judith Miller
Today, the Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz reveals that Fox News has hired former New York Times reporter Judith Miller, who will be an on-air analyst and write stories for Fox’s website:
“She has a very impressive résumé,” says Senior Vice President John Moody. “We’ve all had stories that didn’t come out exactly as we had hoped. It’s certainly something she’s going to be associated with for all time, and there’s not much anyone can do about that, but we want to make use of the tremendous expertise she brings on a lot of other issues. … She has explained herself and she has nothing to apologize for.“
Miller, however, had more problems than her stories not turning out “exactly” as she had “hoped.” Miller has been a willing participant in the Bush administration’s quest to peddle lies to the American public. She was a key player in pushing false intelligence that led the public into the Iraq war, and was central to the Valerie Plame leak scandal.
On Sept. 7, 2002, she and fellow New York Times reporter Michael Gordon reported that Iraq had “stepped up its quest for nuclear weapons and has embarked on a worldwide hunt for materials to make an atomic bomb.” As proof, she cited unnamed “American intelligence experts” and unnamed “Bush administration officials.” Subsequently, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell, and Donald Rumsfeld all pointed to Miller’s story as justification for war. On April 22, 2003, she told PBS’s Newshour that WMD had already been found in Iraq: “Well, I think they found something more than a ’smoking gun.’”
In 2005, Miller went to jail for refusing to testify in the Valerie Plame scandal and reveal her conversations with Scooter Libby. Miller was often criticized for becoming too close with her Bush administration sources. While she was in jail, for example, Libby wrote to her about how much he admired her and urged her to “Come back to work — and life.”
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FoxSnooze is going to team Miller up with Michele Bachmann. They’re going to call it “The Dumb and Dumber Show”.
October 20th, 2008 at 9:33 amNo surprise, Fox News is a disgrace, too
October 20th, 2008 at 9:35 amtook a long time for Queen Judy to get her payoff!
October 20th, 2008 at 9:35 amShe was a salesperson for one of the world’s greatest frauds that resulted in the death of over a million innocent people.
Please ignore this and continue shopping. Your children need plastic masks so that they can collect bags of sugar.
October 20th, 2008 at 9:39 amShe will certainly fit right in with Sean, O’lielly, and Hume. Good luck trying to continue the illusion of “fair and balanced” LOL
October 20th, 2008 at 9:39 amSo?
October 20th, 2008 at 9:40 amYet one more reason for me not to watch Fox News.
October 20th, 2008 at 9:43 amYarrr, a filthier whore none thar be!
October 20th, 2008 at 9:54 amSo Faux Snooze has scored Beck and Miller within the same week, eh? Well, at least they’re gathering all the neocon-poops within the same propaganda outlet, so it’ll be easier for the rest of us to keep a close eye on their subversive anti-American activities…
October 20th, 2008 at 9:57 amFox News Hires Disgraced Reporter Judith Miller»
- – How soon before Scooter Libby comes on board so they can pair him with Ollie North?
October 20th, 2008 at 10:01 amJust “fair and balanced” reporter and another sign that the far right is giving up on the John & Sarah Show.
Fox continues stockpiling right wing shills, freaks, geeks, and crackpots in order to keep the drum beating for at least the next 4 years.
October 20th, 2008 at 10:01 am- – How soon before Scooter Libby comes on board so they can pair him with Ollie North?
(Dang it.) So they can have the Scooter & Ollie Hour.
October 20th, 2008 at 10:02 amFuxNews is looking more and more like a leper colony.
PEACE
October 20th, 2008 at 10:04 amSo FauxSchmooze has another shill for Republican evildoers.
October 20th, 2008 at 10:13 amSo?
Faux News is jumping at the neocon closeout sale.
October 20th, 2008 at 10:17 am“She has explained herself and she has nothing to apologize for.“
Quite right! She knew precisely what she was doing and any apology from her would be insincere and hypocritical.
It is somewhat amusing that FOX can’t/won’t actually mention her WMD tripe as her biggest qualification, so what does that that leave them with to sell her?
October 20th, 2008 at 10:17 amThat she ‘courageously’ went to jail on supposedly a 1st Amendment issue?
I guess Fox vidiots already believe that.
Unfortunately, this reminds us that the New York Times is also for the birds.
October 20th, 2008 at 10:18 amFaux News is respectable as a half-way house for criminals in need of transition assistance.
October 20th, 2008 at 10:20 amNo doubt FOX will soon also pick up the other disgraced “journalists”; Jayson Blair, Armstrong Willims and Jeff Gannon.
Oh, wait… one’s gay and the other two aren’t white, so no affirmative action for them!
October 20th, 2008 at 10:23 amBadmoodman Says:
(Dang it.) So they can have the Scooter & Ollie Hour.
It could be done using sock puppets, but that would be redundant.
PEACE
October 20th, 2008 at 10:28 amFake News Channel Hires Fake News Reporter
Like The Onion only true
October 20th, 2008 at 10:30 amI was curious what direction Fox News would take after Obama wins the election. Would they pad their staff with liberal commentators and Democratic insiders so they could continue to be a propaganda outlet for the new administration? Instead, their moves make it clear that they intend to be the opposition news source. They seem to be collecting the worst of the administration apologists from other news agencies. For that, I suppose, we can thank them. It’s easier to ignore them all if they share the same channel.
October 20th, 2008 at 10:49 amAnother lip-glossed cow on FOX.
**yawn**
October 20th, 2008 at 10:57 am“New York Times is for the birds”
Google “Operation Mockingbird”
October 20th, 2008 at 11:05 amFox continues to scrape the bottom of the barrel. God only knows who’s next, maybe Hitler?
October 20th, 2008 at 11:09 amShe DOES give the best blow-job in the bletway, even better than Andrea Greenspan…
October 20th, 2008 at 11:17 amLet’s not forget, that the Times published an article in 2004 in which they admitted that its flawed reporting during the buildup to the Iraq campaign of the War on Terror helped promote the misleading belief that Iraq possessed large stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction.
While this “From the Editors” piece didn’t mention names, a large part of the incriminated articles had been written by Times reporter Judith Miller, who already started in 1998-02-26 to claim that “all of Iraq is one large storage facility” for weapons of mass destruction. One of Miller’s prime sources was Ahmed Chalabi, who was the interim oil minister of US occupied Iraq and is now head of the Iraqi services committee.
October 20th, 2008 at 11:20 amOne of Miller’s prime sources was Ahmed Chalabi, who was the interim oil minister of US occupied Iraq and is now head of the Iraqi services committee.
and, unless I very much miss my guess (and, if he escapes assassination), who will be the next ‘reliable’ Iraqi ’strongman.’
October 20th, 2008 at 11:23 amLike Glenn Beck, another rat BOARDING the sinking ship.
October 20th, 2008 at 11:30 amFox news is doing everyone a favor by keeping all the whackos in one place in case they ever have to be rounded up by Michele Bachmann for subversion and unpatriotic acts.
October 20th, 2008 at 11:32 amSorry folks, but she took a bullet for the admin in the Plame scandal, she pushed false info for the admin.
Perfectly consistent with Fox saying that she has a very impressive resume.
October 20th, 2008 at 11:40 amAnd Fox News is getting a narrower and narrower viewpoint all the time eventually to be rendered self-limiting.
October 20th, 2008 at 11:42 amYou too can muck up and make the big money. (Or maybe not. Not if you’re not a well connected “member of the club”.)
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October 20th, 2008 at 11:48 amLibertyLover says:
That’s okay. The narrower they get the stupider they are, the more fun they are to watch. Last night I was tearing apart Sean “Bullet-Head” Hannity’s hit job on Obama. It hones your critical skills.
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October 20th, 2008 at 11:51 amGotta love Wingnut Welfare.
October 20th, 2008 at 12:38 pmfaux is the graveyard for all repugs.
What administration would use any journalist as proof for anything, especially in “war”?
judy and mickey are slimy murderous traitors.
Note: The name “Collins” comes to mind in the race to destroy Iraq. I can’t explain it. Help.
October 20th, 2008 at 12:47 pmGreat for Judy now Fox News has a Journalist who is famous for lying under oath and keeping her note in a trash bag. Just don’t touch her notes you don’t know what has been in the trash. Maybe Scooter Libby can join her for that AFTERNOON DELIGHT SESSIONS.
October 20th, 2008 at 12:53 pm“Disgraced” – that’s a good organizational touchstone for fox news.
October 20th, 2008 at 2:37 pmHow soon can some U.N./NATO troops nab Judith, put a hood over her head and get her to a war tribunal at the Hague? How this woman lives with herself, only the Devil and esteemed members of the GOP only know.
October 20th, 2008 at 5:16 pmFox News, the last refuge of scoundrels and ne’erdowells.
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