White House calls Dvorak's report "a lie"

John C. Dvorak vs. the White House spin doctors. Sit back and watch the mud slingers and the muck rakers do battle, and just have fun, because it doesn't matter who wins.

Re: White House calls Dvorak's report "a lie"

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Post by tvon » Wed, Aug 12, 2009, 8:47 PM UTC

teilo wrote: post #5

John C. Dvorak vs. the White House spin doctors. Sit back and watch the mud slingers and the muck rakers do battle, and just have fun, because it doesn't matter who wins.

Are you high?

Re: White House calls Dvorak's report "a lie"

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Post by bilbo0s » Wed, Aug 12, 2009, 9:07 PM UTC

This is gonna get ugly quick.

By even responding to the report, instead of relying on its network of bloggers, the White House has just unleashed every mainstream political journalist in the country on this guy's history. Now everything will be examined, Creostar, the DC web sites, how a guy with no budget management experience is chosen to over see billions in government contracts. I hope, now that they have gone on record calling the report a lie, that none of it turns out to be true.

I'm reminded of the young lady, Mary Carol Turano, who was in charge of security at Boston's airport before 9-11. Although she was reassigned right away and the administration was able to hush a lot of that up by waving the flag and screaming patriotism. Or that 24 year old kid that was given the job of re-establishing Iraq's financial markets after the invasion. And cooly handed control of a US$13 billion budget. (Article by Matt Taibbi at http://thirdworldtraveler.com/Iraq/War_Profiteers_Iraq.html).

What is this guys budget?

You can bet that guys like Taibbi are going to be all over this.

Re: White House calls Dvorak's report "a lie"

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Aug 12, 2009, 9:47 PM UTC

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Re: White House calls Dvorak's report "a lie"

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Post by socratees » Wed, Aug 12, 2009, 9:47 PM UTC

riffic wrote: post #3

John C. Dvorak has been on my list of "journalists who not to take totally seriously" for a long time.

I just posted this on the other thread. It is in the University of Maryland system, it is not "University of Maryland". "University of Maryland University College" is not "University of Maryland".

Re: White House calls Dvorak's report "a lie"

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Post by leviathant » Wed, Aug 12, 2009, 9:57 PM UTC

socratees wrote: post #9

riffic wrote: post #3

John C. Dvorak has been on my list of "journalists who not to take totally seriously" for a long time.

I just posted this on the other thread. It is in the University of Maryland system, it is not "University of Maryland". "University of Maryland University College" is not "University of Maryland".

And look_lookatme posted the following nugget as a reply to a post similar to yours. Quoting verbatim:

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_Of_Maryland

"However, in 1997 the Maryland General Assembly passed legislation allowing the University of Maryland, College Park to be known simply as the University of Maryland, recognizing the campus' role as the flagship institution of the University System of Maryland."

No one of thinks "oh one of those Maryland universities with different faculties and different quality of education" when they hear University of Maryland. They think of College Park.

It may be splitting hairs, but we shouldn't even be having this conversation, as it should be clear on the bio page.