An email to the Daily Howler notes that four New York Times reporters--JODI WILGOREN and DAVID SANGER and DAVID E. ROSENBAUM and ROBIN TONER--have finally learned to walk:
Posted by DeLong at October 27, 2004 09:11 PM | TrackBackThe Daily Howler: E-MAIL (10/24/04): Note use of phrase “in fact”:
Bush Keeps Focus on Preparedness for Terrorism; Kerry Shifts to a Theme of Hope
By JODI WILGOREN and DAVID SANGER
Published: October 24, 2004
Mr. Bush cast new aspersions on Mr. Kerry's fitness to be commander in chief, declaring twice that Mr. Kerry had said he would attack terrorism only “after America is hit—and that would be too late.” In fact, Mr. Kerry has insisted that he would take pre-emptive action, when there was clear intelligence about a threat to the United States—a test he says Mr. Bush threw aside in the case of Iraq.
Behind Candidates' Domestic Plans, an Ideological Gulf
By DAVID E. ROSENBAUM and ROBIN TONER
Published: October 24, 2004
Mr. Bush calls the Kerry plan a government “takeover” of health care. In fact, it is intended to build on the existing employer-based system.
don't get carried away, prof: even as we speak, on the front page of the times alone, below the red sox headline, is "bush hits back at kerry charges over explosives" by elisabeth bumiller and jodi wilgorne, which begins: "President Bush broke his silence on Wednesday on the disappearance of 380 tons of explosives in Iraq, accusing Senator John Kerry of making 'wild charges' about the missing explosives and of 'denigrating the actions' of troops in the field," and which does not include the words "in fact."
In fact, so to speak, the piece accepts as a legitimate distinction that if the materials only disappeared in the brief window between the last IAEA inspection and the american occupation, that's a good thing for bush; which accepts bush's mis-characterization of richard holbrooke's remarks; which accepts bush's mis-characterization of kerry's remarks on tora bora; which ignores the times' own reporting on the looting; which ignores the contemporaneous accounts of embeds; and which spends no time at all pulling together the actual facts we know about the explosives. It also reserves, until the second last graf, the not-unimportant note that the Army didn't search for the explosives, and spends no time at all on the not-unimportant note that it is the official position of the white house that they just heard of this 10 days ago.
so jodi wilgoren still has a long way to go, and elisabeth bumiller, who was too scared to ask bush any hard questions, demonstrates that she belongs in the wizard of oz....
don't get carried away, prof: even as we speak, on the front page of the times alone, below the red sox headline, is "bush hits back at kerry charges over explosives" by elisabeth bumiller and jodi wilgorne, which begins: "President Bush broke his silence on Wednesday on the disappearance of 380 tons of explosives in Iraq, accusing Senator John Kerry of making 'wild charges' about the missing explosives and of 'denigrating the actions' of troops in the field," and which does not include the words "in fact."
In fact, so to speak, the piece accepts as a legitimate distinction that if the materials only disappeared in the brief window between the last IAEA inspection and the american occupation, that's a good thing for bush; which accepts bush's mis-characterization of richard holbrooke's remarks; which accepts bush's mis-characterization of kerry's remarks on tora bora; which ignores the times' own reporting on the looting; which ignores the contemporaneous accounts of embeds; and which spends no time at all pulling together the actual facts we know about the explosives. It also reserves, until the second last graf, the not-unimportant note that the Army didn't search for the explosives, and spends no time at all on the not-unimportant note that it is the official position of the white house that they just heard of this 10 days ago.
so jodi wilgoren still has a long way to go, and elisabeth bumiller, who was too scared to ask bush any hard questions, demonstrates that she belongs in the wizard of oz....