Yesterday, Media Matters observed that on this week’s Meet the Press, New York Times columnist David Brooks admitted to using a made-up statistic in order to argue against withdrawal from Iraq.
Specifically, Brooks rehashed the right-wing talking point that withdrawal in Iraq would certainly lead to “genocide,” alleging that 10,000 Iraqis a month would die after redeployment.
But Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward quickly forced Brooks’ to admit his statistics were baseless:
BOB WOODWARD: I mean, you cite numbers which you have pulled out of the air of 10,000 dying. I mean, that’s–that–where does that come from? […]
DAVID BROOKS: So I just picked that 10,000 out of the air.
2 comments:
You have to look at Brooks, he is a right wing reporter with nothing positive to report on....he is at a loss for positive stories on the GOP, he is now waking up and is so confused on why he was on the right for so long, it's a shock to him, if only the rest of the right wingers would wake up and realize how stupid they have been they will be tripping overthemselves like Brooks.
I don't think Brooks is braindead I think it's about the pay offs he gets from the GOP. Even his sweet meeting with the Gerbil was a joke. Shields looks like a genius as Brooks looks like a idiot. I look to the foreign leaders to put the Bush Administration in it's place as the US is dragging it's heal.
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