Abrash (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} ad_kay) wrote,@ 2007-09-02 18:07:00 |
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Edited: Confirmation bias strikes again "We are going to hit Iran. Big time."
"I don’t think it’s limited at all. We are shipping in and assigning every damn Tomahawk we have in inventory. I think this is going to be massive and sudden, like thousands of targets. I believe that no American will know when it happens until after it happens. And whatever the consequences, whatever the consequences, they will have to be lived with. I am sure if my father knew I was telling someone in a news organization that we were about to launch a supposedly secret attack that it would be treason. But something inside me tells me to tell it anyway."
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/9/1/1
ETA: This is what I get for breaking my own rule about checking stuff out. That diary was taken down. Kos himself intervened and apparently had the diary deleted, and another diarist called BS on some of Maccabee's--such as talking about Tomahawk targeting--that simply wouldn't have happened.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/9/2/1
It seems like the commenter, Maccabee, has had a history of being a bullshit artist and talking to in-the-loop people whom he manages to quote flawlessly without a tape recorder. One Kossack linked to six of his previous posts, and they all featured ominous warnings from articulate people with unique life experiences... with arresting, near-novelistic quotes.
Bottom line: Maccabee and people like him use very real and plausible concerns to get attention. People who get their information only from the traditional media will be inclined to dismiss the idea of an attack on Iran as patently ludicrous. Not checking stuff out damages our credibility.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/9/1/1
ETA: This is what I get for breaking my own rule about checking stuff out. That diary was taken down. Kos himself intervened and apparently had the diary deleted, and another diarist called BS on some of Maccabee's--such as talking about Tomahawk targeting--that simply wouldn't have happened.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/9/2/1
It seems like the commenter, Maccabee, has had a history of being a bullshit artist and talking to in-the-loop people whom he manages to quote flawlessly without a tape recorder. One Kossack linked to six of his previous posts, and they all featured ominous warnings from articulate people with unique life experiences... with arresting, near-novelistic quotes.
Bottom line: Maccabee and people like him use very real and plausible concerns to get attention. People who get their information only from the traditional media will be inclined to dismiss the idea of an attack on Iran as patently ludicrous. Not checking stuff out damages our credibility.
