Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Josh Marshall (Talking Points Memo): As Bad as Bush via FAIR Media Views by Josh Marshall (Talking Points Memo) on Jul 30, 2007 The blogger finds a rare "opportunit[y] for mirth" in "watching Fred Hiatt, czar of the Washington Post editorial page, try to kick up enough dust to wriggle out of his own position on the war." Noting that "because of its reputation as a non-conservative paper, the Post's fatuous and frequently mendacious editorializing has without doubt had a greater role in pushing the public debate into the war camp than any other editorial page in the nation," Marshall sees in a July 21 editorialMr. Hiatt's desire to take a nominal and meaningless, a purely semantic point of agreement--that everyone would like to have most U.S. troops withdrawn from Iraq--and stretch it so thin that it can cover most members of the Senate [and] the president.... Meanwhile the key questions that are the meat of the debate become points of detail that the members of the grand consensus still need to hash out.... Hiatt and the Post editorial crew...want to twist and distort and most of all stretch the terms of the debate so far as to appear to come out on the prevailing side of the public debate even as they never actually change their position. Things you can do from here: - Visit the original item on FAIR Media Views - Subscribe to FAIR Media Views using Google Reader - Get started using Google Reader to easily keep up with all your favorite sites
