12/14/2005
The Greatest Hits of John Harris
August 15, 2004 Washington Post:
The failure to find the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq was one place where Bush on the stump flips the discussion from his vulnerability, a war rationale that has not been borne out by evidence, to Kerry's -- a trail of votes and statements that in Bush's telling reveal the challenger's indecisiveness.July 15, 2005 White House Briefing (a publication entirely unrelated to the Washington Post):
"See, I thought we were going to find stockpiles," Bush acknowledged at a voter forum in Beaverton, Ore. "So did everybody else, you know. . . . We haven't found them yet, I recognize that."
But he insisted that Congress acted on the same intelligence he did in giving bipartisan approval to an Iraq war resolution, and that "the world is better off because Saddam Hussein sits in a prison cell."
John King showed that clip on CNN. "If it were anyone else, Karl Rove might have advised the president to keep his distance from a political lightning rod like himself. But today in the midst of the CIA leak investigation, Mr. Bush and his uberstrategist stood and walked shoulder to shoulder," King said.There's a few things I'm starting to notice about Harris's style:
He asked John Harris, political editor of The Washington Post: "What do you make of the pictures today?"
Harris replied: "Well, I think they say everything. That clearly that was what the message they want to say. Look, forget about it if you're going to chase Rove out of town in this frenzy. It's not going to happen. And I take that at face value. I don't think Rove is going anywhere."
- He luvz Republican talking points.
- He doesn't luv fact-checking Republicans. Like the bit about Congress having the same information as Bush.
- He is remarkably uncritical of the Bush administration.
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