New York Times And Washington Post Continue To Punt On Bush Iran Intel Lie
December 7, 2007 -- 10:07 AM EST // //
CNN's Ed Henry continues to tell his viewers what The New York Times and Washington Post refuse to say outright -- namely, that President Bush misled the nation about when he learned of the new intelligence saying that Iran might have shuttered its nuke program:
"The President's candor is at issue," Henry told his viewers. Why yes, it is, now isn't it. At yesterday's White House press briefing, Bush flack Dana Perino confirmed that Bush had been told of the general thrust of the new intel back in August -- despite the fact that the President said on Tuesday that he had only learned about it "last week."
Naturally, CNN's Henry reported this to his viewers, highlighted it, and told them that this was a contradiction that threw Bush's candor into question.
But today's New York Times carries no mention whatsoever of this latest development. And today's Washington Post puts Perino's new quote in the last paragraph of a long article about another aspect of this -- without even explaining to readers outright that this is a contradiction. This comes a day after both papers severely downplayed the emerging news of Bush's dissembling and buried it under a thick layer of euphemisms.
Why won't The Times and The Post tell their readers what's really going on here? Look, if these papers are too timid to do a stand-alone news story about this, how about slugging it a "news analysis" or something?
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