It's All Newsweek's Fault

by Frank Rich

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The administration has been so successful at bullying the news media in order to cover up its own fictions and failings in Iraq that it now believes it can get away with pinning some 17 deaths on an errant single sentence in a 10-sentence Periscope item that few noticed until days after its publication. Coming just as the latest CNN/Gallup/USA Today poll finds that only 41 percent of Americans think the war in Iraq is "worth fighting" and only 42 percent think it's going well, this smells like desperation. In its war on the press, this hubristic administration may finally have crossed a bridge too far.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/22/opinion/22rich.html?hp




http://www.cafepress.com/kickindemocrats

Scott McKellen et al. are certainly the biggest bullshit artists that I've ever seen in my lifetime. I hope Newsweek will soon hit back hard and will not be intimidated by the coercion.