Demagogue

Via Shakespeare's Sister, FoxNews is throwing down the gauntlet over the Downing Street Memo. They are actually reporting on it and more or less daring the lefty blogosphere to prove that it has what it takes to wag the MSM dog.

Downing Street Memo Mostly Ignored in U.S.

A British government memo that critics say proves the Bush administration manipulated evidence about weapons of mass destruction in order to carry out a plan to overthrow Saddam Hussein has received little attention in the mainstream media, frustrating opponents of the Iraq war.
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In the memo, written by top Blair aide Matthew Rycroft, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw indicated in the meeting that it "seemed clear" Bush had already decided to take military action.

"But the case was thin," reads the memo on Straw's impressions. "Saddam was not threatening his neighbors, and his WMD capability was less than that of Libya, North Korea or Iran."

The memo also paraphrased former head of the British Secret Intelligence Services, Richard Dearlove, fresh from meetings in the United States. The memo said Dearlove believed "military action was now seen as inevitable."

"Bush wanted to remove Saddam Hussein, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD," the memo reads. "But the intelligence and the facts were being fixed around the policy," according to Dearlove's impressions.

"The NSC (National Security Council) had no patience with the U.N. route, and no enthusiasm for publishing material on the Iraqi regime record. There was little discussion in Washington of the aftermath after military action."

The memo, which received sporadic reporting in major newspapers in the United States throughout May, has sparked an outcry from more than 88 Democratic members of Congress who have signed two letters to President Bush demanding a response. [bold mine]
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White House spokesman Scott McClellan has said there is "no need" to respond to the memos, the authenticity of which has not been denied.
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Several popular left-leaning blogs have taken up the cause to keep the story alive, encouraging readers to contact media outlets. A Web site, DowningStreetMemo.com, tells readers to contact the White House directly with complaints.

"This is a test of the left-wing blogosphere," said Jim Pinkerton, syndicated columnist and regular contributor to FOX News Watch, who pointed out that The Sunday Times article came out just before the British election and apparently had little effect on voters' decisions.

"In many ways that memo might prove all of the arguments the critics of the war have made," he added. "But the bulk of Americans don't agree, or don't seem that alarmed, so it is a power test to see if they can drive it back on the agenda."

In a nutshell-- FoxNews reports that the MSM isn't talking about the Downing Street Memo, that Democrats, liberals and anti-war folks are incredibly frustrated by this lack of attention, but the truth is Americans just "don't care" about it.

Something doesn't add up there.

I know it's been a month since the story broke-- well, ok, first circulated, even FoxNews openly acknowledges that it was only sporadic. They're lousy reporters even when they're trying to be good reporters.

Anyhoo, I figured I do my duty, along with the rest of the blogosphere, to try and get America to pay attention to the evidence that Bush lied, lied, lied to get America and the rest of the world to support the Iraq war. It's the least I can do.