Good Press
Krugman writes how the "support our troops" crowd draws the line when that support might actually cost something.
After revealing the existence of the buried centrifuge, why would Iraqi weapons scientist turned states’ evidence Mahdi Obeidi lie about other possible weapons programs? Good question, but whatever he’s saying, it’s not what the Bush team wants to hear, so they’re keeping him under lock and key until his story sounds more like the “official version.” Josh Marshall broke this story last week, and now Newsweek has a full feature on it.
Nice to see that even Christopher Hitchens still has his limits, objecting in the strongest terms to the appointment of virulently anti-Arab scholar and hysterical McCarthyite Daniel Pipes to the US Institute of Peace.
E.J. Dionne takes his whacks at thin-skinned Republican partisan hacks, making this interesting observation: “It is not at all astonishing that partisans would claim that their own political attacks are morally justified while the opposition's assaults are wretched exercises in partisanship. What is astonishing is that anyone would take such claims seriously.”
Oliver Willis serves up this bon-mot from Bill Maher: “Between trying to impeach Bill Clinton, Florida 2000, and the recall in California, I'm beginning to think that Republicans will do anything to win an election - except get the most votes.”
From that hotbed of radical liberalism, Roanoake, Virginia, the lead editorial in today’s paper begins: “This White House has gone beyond mastering damage control to making pre-emptive strikes that distort unfavorable information or keep it hidden from public view.” Who’s writing for these guys? Al Gore?
Oh yeah, and Pete Rose is back too!
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