Bias watch

Have you noticed that mainstream press accounts of Clarke's earlier statements which contradict his book are always reported as an attack by Bush's "attack machine?"

Also, this nonsense about how Clarke's apology for 9/11 proves he's telling the truth. It's just a rhetorical devide used for exactly that purpose.

Well, the mainstream media are the Democrats' attack machine, and they are focusing, as Clarke does, on Condoleeza Rice.

Hugh Hewitt has been replaying Paul Begala's rant on today's Crossfire calling Dr. Rice a liar, on the basis of two examples in which something she said was contradicted by some other government source.

I occasionaly hear conservatives bemoaning the fact that Republicans no longer have someone like Lee Atwater, because the Democrats have a bunch of them. Personally, I just think they need to be smarter about answering this kind of childishness fast, and work at educating people on the way rhetoric is used to manipulate them.