July 2, 2004

Finally

Here we are Paul Krugman in the NYTimes:

There has been much tut-tutting by pundits who complain that the movie, though it has yet to be caught in any major factual errors, uses association and innuendo to create false impressions. Many of these same pundits consider it bad form to make a big fuss about the Bush administration's use of association and innuendo to link the Iraq war to 9/11. Why hold a self-proclaimed polemicist to a higher standard than you hold the president of the United States?

Let's be clear here. Reporters are only on the side of angels, doing their part for democracy, and all that when then speak truth to Power. When they ask hard questions of Power. Moore is not Power. Bush is Power. Ask hard questions of him, why don't you.



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