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Man who made up yellow ribbon story invited to White House as an Iraq expert

Many of you will recall that, a few weeks ago, there was a "news report" released stating that Iran had passed a law that would require Jews to wear yellow ribbons and othe ron-Muslims to wear various ribbons or badges. After the story made the rounds of blogs and message boards, it was revealed that it was a fabrication of Amir Taheri, who started the rumor in an op-ed piece in a Canadian newspaper.

The upshot? Taheri was invited to the White House as an "expert" to give his opinions to George W. Bush on Iraq. According to White House Press Secretary Tony Snow, the group held an "interesting discussion that touched upon cultural issues, on political issues, on the state of affairs in Iraq." Snow stressed that the experts gave Bush "honest opinions."

Posted by Diane E. Dees on 06/02/06 at 5:38 PM | E-mail | Print | Digg this | de.licio.us

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Re: "interesting discussion that touched upon cultural issues, on political issues, on the state of affairs in Iraq..."

*** One would think that would have been done long ago with actual experts in the field.

Re: Snow stressed that the experts gave Bush "honest opinions."

*** One would think that "true, veifiable facts" would be of much more use than an "honest opinion" (whatever that means).

Posted by: AmeriPundit on 06/03/06 at 9:21 PM

So let's see... a journalist lies about antisemetic laws in Iran and he is invited to the White House to give expert opinion? On what, tips for Iran invasion propaganda?

Posted by: kaymac on 06/05/06 at 10:32 AM

Everytime I think I've heard the worst... it gets worse.

*sigh*

Posted by: Ga on 06/05/06 at 3:17 PM