Tactics and Substance in U.S. Elections GoogleNews: congressional.election

August 10, 2003

by V

Washington Post divided against itself

Via Oliver Willis: The Washington Post's front page article today on the Iraq run-up ("Depiction of Threat Outgrew Supporting Evidence") lists plenty of disconnects between what the administration claimed and what it had evidence for.

The article is an interesting contrast to the WP editorial board's haughty sniffing today ("Mr. Gore's Blurred View") about Gore's claim that people somehow got false impressions about the case for war.

They say he's being insulting; their own reporting suggests he's merely being accurate.

Atrios notes that this kind of disconnect is par for the course at the Wall Street Journal; maybe the WaPo is backsliding into a similar unreality.
Posted by V at August 10, 2003 1:23 PM
Comments

Recommended Reading:

The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies that Led to War and Betrayed My Wife's CIA Identity: A Diplomat's Memoir
The Politics of Truth... A Diplomat's Memoir


Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush
Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush


Against All Enemies by Richard Clarke
Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror


LIES by Al Franken
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right


The Great Unraveling
The Great Unraveling


The Great Big Book of Tomorrow
The Great Big Book of Tomorrow


Clinton Wars
The Clinton Wars


Blinded by the Right
Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative


Waging Modern War: Bosnia, Kosovo, and the Future of Combat

Subject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture

Living History

The Hunting of the President: The Ten-Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton

John Adams

Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation

Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace

In Association with Amazon.com