No wonder the Post, in today’s editorial, calls Wilson’s trip to Niger “absurdly over-examined.” This is what people say when they want to change the subject instead of having to renew an indefensible position. The Post's editorial page has been wrong from the start on Iraq so we must at least applaud its consistency.This is but a snippet. Read the entire E&P piece, it's not just damning, it's destroying. There is simply no excuse for the Washington Post to write an editorial that is a complete and utter fabrication - a fabrication that's exposed on the front page of the same newspaper that same day.
It's one thing for the Post's editorial page editor, Fred Hiatt, to be a Bush sycophant. It's quite another for the Washington Post editorial page to outright lie to its readers about the well-established facts concerning George Bush, Ambassador Wilson, and the Scooter Libby leak. Facts that were detailed in the paper earlier this weekend, and again today.
Then again, perhaps we shouldn't be surprised.
After all, the Washington Post editorial page is using outright lies in order to defend a president for using outright lies. The only problem is that this trick hasn't worked too well for the president, whose popularity is at 33%. It's not working too well either for a newspaper editorial board that has been revealed as little more than a rubber stamp - and a lying one at that - for one of the most failed presidencies in our history.
What's sad is that while the president runs a great country into the ground, Fred Hiatt does the same to a once-great newspaper.
At some point, someone needs to inquire whether Donald Graham, the late Katherine Graham's son, is even aware of the degree to which Hiatt is destroying his mother's legacy, or whether Graham himself is the genesis of the entire problem.
