Eric Boehlert: When Washington Post lost its mind cheering Colin Powell's case for war

[babylonsister]

https://pressrun.media/p/when-washington-post-lost-its-mind

When Washington Post lost its mind cheering Colin Powell’s case for war
Bush Lapdogs
Eric Boehlert
1 hr ago


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In one of the more famous pundit lines from the run-up to the war, the Post’s Mary McGrory quipped that Powell "persuaded me, and I was as tough as France to convince." The extended valentine continued: “Powell took his seat in the United Nations and put his shoulder to the wheel. He was to talk for almost an hour and a half. His voice was strong and unwavering. He made his case without histrionics of any kind, with no verbal embellishments.”

In the end, very little of what Powell said that day at the U.N. was true.

Meanwhile, the Post’s Richard Cohen announced that Powell's testimony "had to prove to anyone that Iraq not only hasn't accounted for its weapons of mass destruction but without a doubt still retains them. Only a fool -- or possibly a Frenchman -- could conclude otherwise.”

War skeptics were fools, conspiracy buffs, and generally unserious people — that was the taunting message from the Post weeks before the U.S. launched arguably its most failed military action in the last century.

The Iraq War and the media's lapdog, obedient performance during the run-up should have demolished all claims of liberal media bias, simply because so many journalists teamed up with the Republican White House to help sponsor the disastrous war. At a time of heightened patriotic fervor, the national press played a central role in helping to sell a war to the public.

And the Washington Post proudly led the imprudent parade.

[JohnSJ]

1. Eric Boehlert singled out the Washington Post, but doesn't even mention the NY Times, which

lead the pack to push going to war based on a lie

In fact, most of the MSM were pushing for that war based on a lie. Only Knight Ridder stood alone saying this was a false story. Of course the UN inspectors said there were no WMDs, but except for Knight Ridder, the news outlets essentially brushed that aside.

In other words, the vast majority of the MSM were pushing the lie, and the road to war, and the Washington Post wasn't even the lead on that, it was Judy Miller's NY Times.

Boehlert also seems to ignore that the American public were looking for any excuse to avenge for 9/11, including invading a country that had nothing to do with 9/11

From my sense back then, nothing was going to stop the bush administration from invading Iraq, and if Boehlert is looking for someone to blame, he might want to look at Ralph Nader and the Green Party who have done more to elect republicans with their false equivalences that there was no difference between republicans and Democrats, and contributed to bush's taking office in 2000, and trump in 2016, and giving us the Supreme Court we have today.

There were many actors involved in getting us into war, including Congress, the media, etc.

[Me.]

4. THat's My Thinking

What about Judith Miller and her cheer leading for the war?

[JohnSJ]

5. Yes, especially Judy Miller

[EYESORE 9001]

2. It was a period in time when the Washington Post and New York Times

had about as much integrity as the New York Post and Washington Times.

[jrthin]

3. Generally speaking,

"It was a period in time...," is STILL in effect.

[Me.]

6. IMHO That's Still True For The NY Times

her emails! dems in dissary! ...