Congressman Claims Newspaper Took Iraq Comments Out of Context

Times-Picayune ^ | 10/29/03 | Gene Johnson

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

SEATTLE (AP) -- Rep. George Nethercutt has taken out advertisements in three of the state's biggest newspapers, saying the Seattle Post-Intelligencer "deliberately distorted" and even "massacred" a comment he made about American efforts in Iraq.

The dispute stems from remarks the Republican congressman and U.S. Senate candidate made at a forum at the University of Washington on Oct. 13. He said the reconstruction of Iraq is "a bigger and better and more important story than losing a couple of soldiers every day which, which heaven forbid is awful," according to a transcript from his speech.

[GraniteStateConservative]

Sounds like Pravda.

[pogo101]

We can add the P.-I. to the list that already includes the New York "Jayson Blair" Times and the LA "Get Arnold" Times.

As I've said to the LA Times: There's nothing wrong with a paper having a partisan bias. Such was the rule, in fact, in most papers until well into the 20th century. What IS wrong, is a paper's pretense of non-partisanship, when it in fact is grossly partisan.