Posted by
Ed Lilly on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 12:14:53 PM
I suppose this is about as close as the mainstream media ever gets to apologizing for lying about a Republican presidential candidate:
Rubin says in the Huffington Post that he provided "a full question and a full answer. Nothing was left out of the question or the answer. Nothing is taken out of context."
I think it was a mistake for Rubin not to have released both portions at once. It's not that McCain's second answer totally undercuts the first, but it certainly qualifies it and provides a fuller picture. I don't think Rubin was trying to be intentionally misleading, but he gave the media only part of the story.
Of course, this comes not from the editorial board of the Washington Post, or as an official “correction” of James P. Rubin’s lies about Sen. McCain. Instead it’s buried near the end of a media column by Howard Kurtz.
Pathetic. Doesn’t Rubin’s own statement, still refusing to acknowledge the full context of McCain’s comments, pretty much negate Kurtz’s Pollyanna-like view that Rubin wasn’t trying to be intentionally misleading BY giving only part of the story?
I guess you don’t need to have any ability to think logically to write a column for the Washington Post. Especially when it may mean having to reach obvious conclusions about the lack of character of political comrades.