How the Left Swiftboated America: The Liberal Media Conspiracy to Make You Think George Bush Was the Worst President in History by John Gibson

Author:John Gibson [Gibson, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Media & Internet, Film, Political Science, Political Process, Performing Arts, General
ISBN: 9780061959547
Google: CTplvaL4FvkC
Goodreads: 7569731
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2009-12-01T00:00:00+00:00

We finished the survey on 20 Sept. If this had not come out until mid-Nov. or later, in the politicized lens of Baghdad (where the chief of police does not allow his name to be made public and where all the newly trained Iraqi soldiers I saw had bandannas to hide their faces to avoid their families being murdered . . .) this would have been seen as the researchers covering up for the Bush White House until after the election and I am convinced my Iraqi co-investigators would have been killed. Given that Kerry and Bush had the same attitude about invading and similar plans for how to proceed, I never thought it would influence the election and the investigators never discussed it with each other or briefed any political player.

“So, we rushed to get it out,” Roberts admitted again. “I do not understand why the ‘study’s scientific neutrality’ is influenced or the likelihood that the sample was valid, the analysis fair.” Here Roberts referred to the criticism that his scientific “neutrality” had been compromised. “What does neutrality mean? Do people who publish about malaria deaths need to be neutral about malaria?”

He signed his letter, “Yours in confusion and disgust.” Paulos had been a friend and colleague.

Roberts had earlier boasted about his adventure getting into Iraq to set up the survey teams. He’d hidden on the floor of an SUV with $20,000 stuffed in his clothes and money belt for the dangerous trip into Baghdad. Once there, he had to immediately give up going out with the Iraqi survey teams because of the danger.

In an interview with an Australian news service, he described his time out in the open in Baghdad before holing up in a hotel room for the rest of his stay.

“It was terrifying. You know, some of the interviewers wouldn’t ride in the same car as me because I was an American, and we had an agreement that I would never speak on the street,” Roberts said. “I did go out to the first couple of neighborhoods where we trained interviewers and then for the first 8 of the randomly picked 33 neighborhoods . . . After that, the Iraqis did the brave chores of going out to Fallujah and elsewhere and interviewing the families.”

This frank admission of the limitations imposed by the war lead some critics to question whether the study could have been conducted properly under such dangerous conditions. But Roberts was undeterred and completely confident about his results. During his congressional campaign, Roberts was asked about his harrowing month in Iraq in September 2004. “Of every Iraqi I spoke to . . . I would ask, ‘Why do you think the coalition came?’ No one, not one person said anything related to Saddam. They thought we had come for two reasons: We came for oil and we came to create a setting of anarchy so that every nefarious element in the region would come and fight us there, rather than fighting us in North America or fighting us in Israel.

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