As both Gen. Petraeus and Amb. Crocker have been testifying before various Congressional committees this week, the mediots’ focus has been like a laser-beam (as usual) on any bits and pieces of the testimony with which they can use to beat the admin over the head.
Remember several months ago, when John McCain took a question from a supporter who called Hillary Clintion the “b” word? The outrage stretched out for miles, and among those stridently condemning McCain for not taking the supporter to task was hypocritical View co-host Joy Behar, who had this to say in response:
Media outlets (scroll), political news sites, and other publications are starting to call out Barack Obama on his “McCain wants us in Iraq 100 years” lie – one of the most blatant he’s told this year.
Time’s Mark Halperin obtained a copy of a letter Obama’s “former pastor” Jeremiah Wright wrote to NYT reporter Jodi Kantor last March complaining about how she “misrepresented” in an article she wrote about him shortly after she interviewed him for a piece she was doing on Barack Obama. Some excerpts (via Scott Johnson):
Just when you think this popular hero of the Nutroots couldn’t get any worse comes this:
I’m still swamped, but wanted to link up quickly to Patterico’s post on the LAT’s admission that a recent article they wrote on a 1994 attack on murdered rapper Tupac Shakur was based on, in part … fabricated documents.
