Who is Hastert’s master? - Eric Alterman

[dArKeR]

Todd Gitlin points out that Mimi Swartz's "In Search of the President's Missing Years," here, is a  breakthrough for the somnolent NYT, but there's a factual error in it.  Toward the bottom of the second column she writes:  "even story was soon eclipsed by others in the heat of the campaign, most notably the revelation, late in the game, that Mr. Bush had been arrested in 1976 for driving under the influence."  But some five plus months elapsed between Robinson's piece and the drunk driving story.  I think the record will show that Ms. Swartz's  explanation won't wash.  Whatever the press was doing on Bush in those five months, it wasn't muckraking and the kitchen wasn't so hot.

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Who is Hastert’s master? And what is he/they trying to hide about the causes of our government’s failure to protect us on September 11?

Speaking of which, Rick Shenkman of History News Network wrote my “Think Again” column this week.  It’s called “Whatever Happened to Homeland Security?"  Home page is here and you can sign up for the daily Progress Report here.

Meanwhile, I’ve got a Nation column on Bob Novak and conservative standards of patriotism and journalism, such as they are.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3449870/

[mac2]

1. Cheney

[TN al]

2. DeLay

[chiburb]

3. Agree. n/t

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[tom_paine]

5. DeLay

[dArKeR]

4. Satan. No one posted my first choice!

[Richardo]

6. They *said* Delay!

:evilgrin: <--- Tom