The Big City

Haven’t we been here before? It seems that the long-running story about the efforts of the Bush clan to keep their little boy out of danger during the Vietnam war is itself in danger; in danger of being discredited because of one mistake in one news report. According to Newsday.com a CBS “60 Minutes” story was based on documents that may have been forged. This reminds me of how the British government seized on a BBC story about how they lied about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction because one journalist said in one broadcast that the lying had probably been deliberate. The story was true, that fact couldn’t be shown to be true. One mistake enabled the government to discredit the whole story.
Sometimes I wonder if these little killer details aren’t leaked to the media as poisoned pills by our governments to help undermine inconvenient stories.