MORE WINGNUT PROPAGANDA

AZNPHILE routinely posts fringe-right agit-prop on AOL. One I just found comes from Richard Miniter's book, Disinformation: 22 Media Myths That Undermine the War on Terror (Washington D.C.: Regnery, 2005).

This is from Miniter's Myth 18:

On pages 35 to 38 of Truth, Franken misinforms his readers regarding an August 2001 Presidential Daily Briefing (PDB) received by President Bush.
Franken misrepresents the PDB in several ways:

I.
On page 35 of Truth, Franken writes that the brief was "memorably titled 'Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US'." This is incorrect. Rather, the title refers to the one item of the PDB, not the entire PDB itself.
PDBs "generally span 10 to 20 pages, covering seven or eight topics in newspaper-like digests."2 (The President receives a PDB six days a week.3) What Franken refers to as the "August 6, 2001, PDB" is actually only a single 1 1/2-page item among several in the actual PDB.


Condi Rice already confirmed to the 9-11 Commission that Franken is correct:

MR. BEN-VENISTE: Isn't it a fact, Dr. Rice, that the August 6th PDB warned against possible attacks in this country? And I ask you whether you recall the title of that PDB.

MS. RICE: I believe the title was "Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States." Now, the PDB --