Posted on 11/04/2006 5:10:15 PM PST by the Real fifi
Vanity Fair has come out with its usual election eve hit job. This time it selectively quotes leading neocons on their views respecting the war, editing their lengthy remarks to suggest dissatisfaction with the Administration and the war. Michael Rubin has already responded, ss has David Frum.
I read Richard Perles comments as an attack on the perfidy of some in the Administration, a topic I have written about more than once.
Richard Perle was traveling, and I was only just able to reach him to clarify his views, as I was certain the article was a total misrepresentation of them, and he has promptly responded. Here is what he told me.
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http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MzgxYzUzYmRlNjhmNzMyNjI2MDM4YmRjNTFhODA4MGQ= If you read this, you will see that David Rose a British journalist known to those interviewed, is a supporter of the war whose interviews were misused by the editors who also broke his pledge to them to hold this until after the election so that nothing said would influence it.
The only people who take VF seriously are liberals anyway...preaching to the choir.
True enough, but it is important the interviewees were able to respond quickly--something due entirely to the blogosphere. In today's presser, the first question asked was about the article.
Had there been no blogosphere, there'd be no effective way for these people to blow the whistle on VF.
I understand that Tim Russert used this on Meet the Press as well.
The MSM/VanityF still feels like they were gyped out of a "gotcha" in the Wilsom-Plame affair. They will stop at nothing to disparage Bush's liberation of Iraq. Perle should have known that David Rose has a boss who loves Josephine Wilson.
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