And the media just keeps on getting crazier. So now Fox News has hired Judith Miller, the disgraced ex New York Times reporter who simultaneously worked for George W. Bush on the project of selling the immoral and illegal Iraq war to the gullible media.
I'm certain that CNN and MSNBC are green with envy. Seriously.
Howard Kurtz reports:
Fox News is expected to announce today the hiring of a new contributor, a veteran national security correspondent who has shared a Pulitzer Prize.
Her name is Judith Miller, and she is nothing if not controversial. Miller left the New York Times in 2005 after testifying in the trial of former White House aide Lewis "Scooter" Libby that he had leaked her information about a CIA operative. Miller's conduct in the case, which led to her serving 85 days in jail for initially refusing to testify, drew rebukes from the Times executive editor and some of her colleagues.
In the run-up to the Iraq war, Miller reported stories on the search for Saddam Hussein's supposed weapons of mass destruction that turned out to be untrue, some of which were cited in a Times editor's note acknowledging the flawed coverage. Miller, now with the conservative Manhattan Institute, wrote when she left the paper that she had "become a lightning rod for public fury over the intelligence failures that helped lead our country to war."
Miller will be an on-air analyst and will write for Fox's Web site.
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