Smearing Joe Wilson, Again

[ProSense]

MEDIA CRITICISM:

Smearing Joe Wilson, Again

by ROBERT PARRY

The Washington Post’s editorial makes excuses for the government deceivers, treats their exposure of the CIA officer as justifiable – and attacks Joe Wilson by recycling the government’s false spin points against him.In a world that wasn’t upside-down, the editorial page of Washington’s biggest newspaper might praise a whistleblower like former Ambassador Joseph Wilson for alerting the American people to a government deception that helped lead the country into a disastrous war that has killed 2,627 U.S. soldiers.

The editorial page also might demand that every senior administration officials who sought to protect that deception by leaking the identity of a covert CIA officer (Wilson’s wife) be held accountable, at minimum stripped of their security clearances and fired from government.

But the United States, circa 2006, is an upside-down world. So the Washington Post’s editorial page instead makes excuses for the government deceivers, treats their exposure of the CIA officer as justifiable – and attacks the whistleblower by recycling the government’s false spin points against him.

If future historians wonder how the United States could have blundered so catastrophically into Iraq under false pretenses and why so few establishment figures dared to speak out, the historians might read the sorry pattern of the Post’s editorial-page attacks on those who did dissent.

Washington Post Editorial Page Editor Fred Hiatt, who fell for virtually every Iraq War deception that the Bush administration could dream up, is back assaulting former Ambassador Wilson, again, in a Sept. 1 editorial, falsely accusing Wilson of lying and concluding that “it’s unfortunate that so many people took him seriously.”

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http://www.baltimorechronicle.com/2006/090106Parry.shtml

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[annabanana]

1. two words: Brewster Jennings...

We could propbably have used some of their intelligence about now, no?

[AX10]

2. The Whitewash Post has a history of covering up for the government.

[grizmaster]

3. I've been seeing freepers posting that WaPo story everywhere

good to see some press pointing out their lies

[clark08]

4. Man, I really was hoping this would

amount to something