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Added: April 11, 2008
This is just funny. It’s great hearing a great writer like Mickey Kaus just tearing the NYT apart for this type of story.
Key paragraph:
“I’m not saying that the Times editors are predictable anti-war, anti-Bush types who reflexively leaped to a pessimistic extrapolation from the muddled Basra fighting and imposed that unsupported conclusion on their reporters. But they definitely succeeded in producing the piece that predictable anti-war types would have generated given no more information than the news that Maliki had failed to take all of Basra. Arianna Huffington could have written it from her sofa after coming back from a party. Except it would probably be more convincing.”
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