Good with the bad
Some folks seem pretty happy to see the WaPo offering up a little plain old-fashioned common sense instead of the usual liberal cant, but I dunno:
PRESIDENT BUSH was right to approve the declassification of parts of a National Intelligence Estimate about Iraq three years ago in order to make clear why he had believed that Saddam Hussein was seeking nuclear weapons. Presidents are authorized to declassify sensitive material, and the public benefits when they do. But the administration handled the release clumsily, exposing Mr. Bush to the hyperbolic charges of misconduct and hypocrisy that Democrats are leveling.
Don’t get me wrong, I do find this sort of evenhanded truthfulness in a pretty unexpected place kind of refreshing myself. I mean, after seeing the MSM go baying after each successive manufactured scandal, dragging the proverbial goalposts with them every step down the road to perdition, how could anyone not suffering from a most acute case of BDS not enjoy this line:
The affair concerns, once again, former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV and his absurdly over-examined visit to the African country of Niger in 2002. Each time the case surfaces, opponents of the war in Iraq use it to raise a different set of charges…
Ain’t it the damned truth — and though this may be the first time the WaPo has deigned to notice such a thing, it’s hardly the first time it’s happened. Or the tenth. The conclusion:
As Mr. Fitzgerald pointed out at the time of Mr. Libby’s indictment last fall, none of this is particularly relevant to the question of whether the grounds for war in Iraq were sound or bogus. It’s unfortunate that those who seek to prove the latter would now claim that Mr. Bush did something wrong by releasing for public review some of the intelligence he used in making his most momentous decision.
Yes, it certainly is nice to see that somebody at the WaPo still retains some objectivity, and some sense of the importance of putting the country before partisanship in wartime. But the thing that bugs me about it is the sure knowledge that certain annoying beyond-rational types will be pointing to this op-ed for the next thirty or forty years as irrefutable proof of the MSM’s “right-wing bias.”
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And the lack in the media of that, ladies and gentlemen, is why I never could stomach the field of journalism, and changed my major.
I dont.