{"id":1154,"date":"2004-07-15T01:36:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-15T01:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1154"},"modified":"2018-08-13T12:16:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T17:16:00","slug":"1154","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/15\/1154\/","title":{"rendered":"The Former Television Critic Weighs In"},"content":{"rendered":"

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/i>, which by the way does not include me as a columnist, has former television critic Eric Mink dissing the Bush Administration<\/a> in a serious column. I guess Mink grew up and turned off the television and started reading the Post-Dispatch<\/i> for news insights:<\/p>\n

\nLate last week, yet another august body – this time the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence – issued yet another massive report again confirming that the U.S. intelligence establishment got just about everything wrong when it came to Saddam Hussein’s nonexistent biological, chemical and nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n

But buried deep in the Senate report – little noticed and even less remarked upon – is something important that the committee credits the intelligence community for getting right. And it puts the torch to whatever flimsy tissue of credibility the Bush administration had left:<\/p>\n

With respect to contacts between Iraq and al-Qaida during the 1990s, the committee found that the CIA “reasonably assessed . . . that these contacts did not add up to an established formal relationship.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Got that? Without a mutual protection pact treaty, it didn’t exist, and Eric Mink is there to analyze it.<\/p>\n

Wait a minute, Eric Mink, former television critic, is now the commentary editor for the Post-Dispatch<\/i> editorial page<\/a>? Muhahhahahaha! You cannot make this stuff up.<\/p>\n

Of course, my chances of being a paid columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/i> will greatly diminish the next time Mink googles himself. To a slightly lower nil than they were before the search.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, which by the way does not include me as a columnist, has former television critic Eric Mink dissing the Bush Administration in a serious column. I guess Mink grew up and turned off the television and started reading the Post-Dispatch for news insights: Late last week, yet another august body – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23076,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions\/23076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}