The Biggest Lie [VDH]

National Review ^ | 10/21/2014 | Victor Davis Hanson

[Servant of the Cross]

I yield to this point. Using the word “fight” as a verb to describe our current gop leadership is completely incorrect.

[what's up]

GREAT article!

[Billthedrill]

The real key to the constantly changing narrative is that the media do it because they can get away with it, because they have committed to an ideological stance and will post anything from its sources uncritically and absolutely everything from its opponents with a dismissive disdain. That latter is probably why Bush declined to engage in this particular arena or perhaps why Rove told him not to if that is indeed the case.

There is an infuriatingly smug "we knew it all along" subtext to the current revelations that indicate to me that they really did, a truly damning proposition and an open admission of manipulation and betrayal of the public.

There is good and bad in the increasing influence of the Internet on global reporting. It is, to be sure, a conduit for misinformation from time to time, but it is also a permanent record of that misinformation that cannot be remedied by such activities as a newspaper closing its archives to the public. And so this "we knew it all along" trope should be, and is being, countered by "then why did you state otherwise?" and proof that the media did. The reaction so far is