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That one always sends me off to dreamland! You know the one: Judith's handlers whisked her off to someplace in Iraq, she didn't know where. They pulled over, and a man in a baseball cap some yards away was walking back and forth. Every now and then, he'd stop and point at the ground, and then start walking around again.
Judith's handlers told her that the man had been a top scientist in Saddam's regime, and he was pointing out where those dreaded weapons of mass destruction had been stored. Judith reported all of this as straight, unvarnished news from primary sources.
Left unasked were such questions as: Who was the man in the baseball cap? What was he really doing, since we're asked to take someone else's word for his actions? Who corroborated what Judith's handlers told her? And on and on.
Tweety, of course, will remember none of this, though at the time of Judith's reporting, it was hailed as the long-awaited "proof" of Saddam's possession of weapons of mass destruction, and all the justification necessary for the pre-emptive invasion.
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