What is the Mack
Report and why is it on line?
The answer is
simple: First, I do it
because I frequently find myself in political
conversations with friends or engaged in discussion on radio talk
shows. Since I don't even try to remember every little thing
in politics and conservative hosts usually attempt to shift the
subject when you look like you're about to make a logical point
they cannot argue, it helps to have information stashed somewhere
so I can refer people to it.
My second reason is that I am very ashamed of what broadcasting
has become. Conservative talk shows dominate the talk
circuit these days and civility has gone out the window.
It's okay to tell half-truths or even lie to make your
point. Liberals who dare to call are told they are welcome,
then they are either not given the chance to make their point or
they are just outright shut out.
Third, the so-called "liberal press" is anything but.
Some, such as William Crystol" have pointed out that there
really is no such thing as a liberal press; they just use that
term when they have no other way to "win" their
point. The fact is, the press has been taken over by a
management that is far more interested in entertainment than hard
news. More glitz and less "boring old news."
Here's an example. Ambassador Joseph Wilson was an excellent
career politico and a good Republican. He was George H.W.
Bush's "hero" for his activities in the first Gulf War,
where he stood up to Saddam and his regime and saved many
lives. The moment this man disagreed with George W. Bush, he
was pond-scum. During the whole time, after treason was
committed against the United States by outing his wife, a CIA
operative, it was never mentioned just WHY someone would send
Ambassador Wilson to Niger to check on whether or not yellow cake
was being sold to Iraq. Not once did the Bush administration
(or did that "liberal press") mention that Wilson was
General Service Officer in Niger and well-liked by them. Nor
did they mention that he was Deputy Chief of Mission in
Iraq. Of course he was as good a choice as you could ask
for. But the administration didn't bother to mention that
point. Neither did the press. I've included Ambassador
Wilson's resumè, which would be available to anyone in the press
who bothered to look it up:
| 1976-1978 |
General
Service Officer, Niger |
| 1978-1979 |
Administration
Officer, Togo |
| 1979-1981 |
Administration
Officer, Washington, D.C. |
| 1981-1982 |
Administration
Officer, Pretoria, South Africa |
| 1982-1985 |
Deputy
Chief of Mission, Burundi |
| 1985-1986 |
Congressional
Fellow, Offices of Sen. Al Gore & Rep. Tom Foley |
| 1986-1988 |
Deputy
Chief of Mission, Republic of the Congo |
| 1988-1991 |
Deputy
Chief of Mission, Iraq |
| 1992-1995 |
Ambassador
to Gabon, São Tomé and Principe |
| 1995-1997 |
Political
Advisor to the C in C, US Armed Forces, Europe |
| 1997-1998 |
Special
Assistant to President Bill Clinton and Senior Director
for African Affairs, National Security Council, Washington
D.C. |
I ask again: Does
he or does he not have the credentials? Plainly, it does not
serve the present administration to point any of this out.
Nor would they point out that he has the trust of the leadership
of the French- speaking Niger (Wilson speaks fluent, natural
French, having lived in and gone to school in France as a
teenager). All of this is very inconvenient when you are
trying very hard to put Ambassador Wilson in a bad light and out
his wife as "unimportant" and "fair
game."
Hence, this website. And there is an awful lot to set
straight.
--Steve Mack
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