L.A. Times: “No Democrat Was a Firmer Ally” of Bush’s Iraq War Than Murtha
Mickey Kaus reads the L.A. Times when I am too busy to do it, so you don’t have to — and I don’t have to either!
Note to hapless LAT publisher Jeffrey Johnson: Instead of reviving Robert Scheer’s dormant career by firing him, or having your telemarketers boast that you’ve extirpated liberal Michael Kinsley’s insidious influence, why not pay attention to the bias on the pages people actually read–like the embarrassing deception in the second paragraph of Friday’s front-page, two-column-headline lead story, which seemingly proclaimed that “no Democrat was a firmer ally” of Bush’s war against Saddam than Rep. John Murtha, when in fact Murtha had been a critic of the current Iraq war in 2002, before it started? Funny how those propagandistic mistakes in the news pages never get made in a pro-Bush direction, isn’t it?
Kaus has a further trenchant observation that I couldn’t put better if I tried. Good thing I didn’t. It comes in one of Kaus’s patented post-post-postscripts:
P.P.P.S.: That Murtha error smells like an editor’s mistake to me. That’s why your absurd anti-Kinsley spiel won’t convince anybody. The L.A. Times’ peculiar bias–a chloroform-like combination of liberalism and lifelessness–runs deep in the paper’s DNA, in layers and layers of editorial middle-bureaucracy. Short of laying off 80% of the staff, you will not root it out in our lifetimes. Conservative readers know this.
Some intellectually honest liberals do too.
From the looks of him, it seems that he has had 1 too many scotches with Ted Kennedy,,,
savet (229077) — 11/20/2005 @ 9:30 pmAfter listening to Murtha on Meet the Press, it makes no difference what he “once thought.” He has now undercut the troops and placed them in mortal danger. I find him disgusting but the MSM is worse. Using medals and awards from combat days of long ago is an outrage. It just forces people like me to step up and match his claims of “heroism” and say he’s deadly wrong.
Frank Laughter (fec178) — 11/21/2005 @ 6:25 amEven better, Murtha was caught taking bribes in ABSCAM. I referenced a good site today, and it’s called Sweetness and Light. Referred by Schultz
Howard Veit (baba22) — 11/21/2005 @ 7:37 am[…] The “big lie” activities of the press are well exemplified by this Mickey Kaus catch of the Dems at the LA Tiimes quoted by Patterico. Tip — don’t miss Kaus’s P.P.P.S. […]
PrestoPundit » Blog Archive » The Truth About Cong. Murtha (d881ce) — 11/21/2005 @ 10:22 amLet’s test the proposition: “No Democrat was a firmer ally”
Are there any Dems who qualify as more firm allies than Rep Murtha? He’s been exposed as wishy washy way back to Mogadishu. So, why not make a list of Dems who actually have been reliable supporters of the war? They deserve our recognition and respect.
Surely, the LAT would be interested in an opportunity to publish the names of Democrats who back GWB’s war effort. Right?
Black Jack (ee9fe2) — 11/21/2005 @ 11:26 am[…] The LA Times agenda driven coverage is not confined to Iraq alone. They continue to deceive and report half-truths in their coverage of the NSA wiretap scandal, in coverage of domestic oppoenents of the war, and in the debate over pre-war intelligence. […]
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