Condoleezza Rice has been getting some press lately from the New York Times — unfortunately, it’s for things she didn’t mean. After trying (and failing) to get her to condemn Israel for not doing enough (while Israel was pulling out of Gaza, at that), they simply cut and pasted comments she made in different contexts on different questions, glued them together, removed all context from them, and voile! Instant falsehood! It is hard to tell (particularly as this is the NYT) whether this was a reporter hearing what they wanted to hear (no matter the stretch needed to get to that result), the result of an anti-Israel bias or an anti-Bush-administration bias. Another interesting possibility would be that they are looking forward to 2008 and see the chance of Condi running for President and being able to defeat Hillary. Either way, this is a glaring example of the bias (or at best, sheer incompetence) of what is supposedly the premier newspaper in the country. What can be done to eliminate the nation’s forced dependence on the monopoly of news granted to such bad journalism?
Oh, I almost forgot. Hat tip to LGF.