Imminent Threat of Mass Distortion
Via Instapundit we are linked to a great Spinsanity post about a damning quote from a White House spokesman which I've already seen making the "BUSH LIED" rounds.
A new myth is making its way through the media: that White House press secretary Scott McClellan said "This is about an imminent threat" about the Iraq war during a press briefing last February. This tall tale, first created by the liberal Center for American Progress, has been repeated several times by journalists who failed to check their facts. As we showed last week, McClellan was actually talking about Iraq potentially posing an "imminent threat" to Turkey if a war started, which would justify invoking the NATO charter and allowing alliance members to help defend Turkey. But analysts at the Center for American Progress inaccurately claimed in their January 29 e-mail newsletter that McClellan made that statement as a reason why "NATO should go along with the Administration's Iraq war."
People ask me why I'm such a hard-core crytpo-fascist. Frankly, it's stuff like this. I see the left struggle and struggle and struggle to come up with the dirt. This sort of crap is the best they can come up with. We are not impressed.