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Consortium News: The Washington Post's Editorial Fantasyland (3/8/07) by Robert Parry
Declaring that Washington Post editorial writers and George W. Bush "have a lot in common—most notably an arrogance of power so extreme that they believe their very words can alter reality."In a normal world, the...editors would be ashamed of themselves for having swallowed George W. Bush's Iraq War propaganda whole and for helping to mislead the American people into a disastrous war. Instead, the Post's editors continue to recycle old lies about Iraq War critic Joseph Wilson. After the conviction of former White House aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby for lying about and covering up the Bush administration's outing of covert CIA officer Valerie Plame, the Post’s lead editorial continues to manufacture a false history of the case, again slamming Plame’s husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson.... Astonishingly, everything in this Post attack on Wilson is either a gross distortion or a lie.
Listen to FAIR's CounterSpin: Robert Parry on Libby verdict (3/9/07), to hear Parry talk about the verdict and the limits of what trials like this reveal to the public.
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