washpost ombudsman plays into repubs hands

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Not that its a surprise.
In today's ombudsman column in the Washington Post, Michael Getler devotes 20 plus inches to the pressing issue of whether the paper underreports the successes of the Univ. of Virginia football team. In the remaining two and a half inches, it takes on the fact that the Post screwed up the headline to its story about the Duelfer report (by using an old quote from David Kay), but says that there isn't space to explain the screw up beyond describing it as a 'transcription' error.

My concern about this is that the Shit Humes and other repubs have been using the Post headline as a way to distract attention from the devastating (to bush) conclusions of the report. I went to U.VA, but by treating the coverage of U.Va sports as more important than straightening out the headline story, Getler has simply played into Hume and company's hands. They can ridicule the post and yell cover up, further re-directing attention from the substance of the report.

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[Toots]

1. What was the Headline and was it favorable to Bush*?

:shrug: What was the quote they used?

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2. not favorable to bush

The headline was "US 'Almost All Wrong' on Weapons". Shit Hume and others have jumped all over the fact that the quoted language isn't in the Duelfer report; its from a statement that David Kay made months ago. They are focusing on this in order to make it sound like the post had to stretch to paint the report's substance as negative.

The fact is that the post could've and should've used an equally damning quote from the report. The screw up is allowing the repubs to engage in a typical game of misdirection.

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[KharmaTrain]

3. Confusion And Distortion

Not to sound too reptitive, but one can't say it enough these days, the way this regime is spinning that report is truly Orwellian. How much more definitive proof do these editors and corporate media whores need to finally admit that this invasion was one of economic and politcal aggression that had little to nothing to do with "terrorism" (which it used as a smokescreen) and now is costing us in blood and international goodwill.

How many dead Americans does it take (since these bastards see those killed as KIAs and numbers, not humans...sanctity of life, my ass!) for these scumbags to finally stop highlighting this administration lies and present stories in a factual manner.

The reports in the WaPo and other papers should be about how the American people were lied to going and are still being lied to. However this conflicts with their egos and personal interests as to admit they were duped or complicit with this enterprise is not worth it yet for 1,000 dead Americans and may not for 2,000 or 5,000...as long as they don't have to directly feel or pay for their actions.

Also, they feel upstaged by people like Michael Moore, who now is prove to have had the story right on the money and they're loathe to give him respect yet his due. We owe this man so much.