Via The Anchoress is an excellent post based on a Washington Post article:

What a long, strange trip it’s been, and here, some years later, we finally get someone in the press to tell it straight: Bush did not lie.

After all, it was not Bush, but Rockefeller, who said in October 2002: “There has been some debate over how ‘imminent’ a threat Iraq poses. I do believe Iraq poses an imminent threat. I also believe after September 11, that question is increasingly outdated. . . . To insist on further evidence could put some of our fellow Americans at risk. Can we afford to take that chance? I do not think we can.”

One reads this and thinks…it’s really too bad that when this story of Dems on the Intel Committee plotting against Bush broke in 2003, the mainstream press ignored it, taking umbrage that anyone would leak a memo (!) while ignoring its content. Why, suddenly, is the WaPo deciding, after 5 years of supporting and promoting the “Bush lied” meme, to clarify?

Excellent post, Anchoress! And you’re right; it’s probably too late to rehabilitate this president at least in the present and soon future, but in the end I believe history will exonerate him.

It’s no secret among people who have been following Rupert Murdoch’s bid to purchase Dow Jones which owns The Wall Street Journal that the New York Times has been against the deal and has lost in its effort to stop it.

It’s also no secret among people who are honest with themselves that the New York Times is no lover of the GOP or of Rudy Giuliani.

Therefore, it comes as no surprise to me that, absent the headline on the bridge collapse in Minneapolis, the New York Times would have had its page one headline today be what has been pushed down on the page a bit: “In Fox News, Giuliani Finds a Friendly Stage”.

So WHAT? Is it a crime for someone to appear on a news channel more than someone else? (more…)