{"id":87,"date":"2005-11-27T16:03:48","date_gmt":"2005-11-27T23:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=87"},"modified":"2007-11-30T20:39:45","modified_gmt":"2007-12-01T04:39:45","slug":"burying-the-lede","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=87","title":{"rendered":"Burying The Lede"},"content":{"rendered":"

The The Los Angeles Times should pay my doctor bills for the heart attack they gave me by publishing an insightful, well-reasoned, and hard-hitting opinion column yesterday. Tim Rutten’s article, Cheney’s History Needs A Revise<\/a>, is one of the best deconstructions of the Vice President’s hysterical hypocrisy I’ve read to date. In case you missed it, Cheney, after an insincere stab at advocating the right to dissent, immediately blasted dissenters<\/a> as aiding and abetting the terrorists. He accused critics of the war of lying when they said Bush lied about pre-war intelligence. Even though that has been, in Cheney’s words, “…pretty well confirmed.”<\/em> He went on to say:<\/p>\n

Administration critics were engaging in “…revisionism of the most corrupt and shameless variety.”<\/em><\/p>\n

“Any suggestion that prewar information was distorted, hyped, fabricated by the leader of the nation is utterly false.”<\/em><\/p>\n

And that critics were “dishonest”<\/em> and “reprehensible.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Rutten mercilessly pounds on Cheney’s own revisionism, hitting him with Curveball<\/a>, torture, and his own desparation as the only BushCo rep with lower public ratings than Bush. And he wraps it up beautifully with this conclusion:<\/p>\n

That’s why Cheney is right about at least one thing: Deliberately falsifying history for mere political advantage is a particularly noxious social perversion. It is, to borrow, his stingingly apt adjective, “reprehensible.”<\/p>\n

But candid recollection and sober reflection do not amount to revisionism – unless, of course, you’re already committed to self-deception and determined to convince others to live with your lie.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So how then is the lede buried, as my headline states? You might expect that this thoughtful portrayal of current events by a significant newsmaker would have appeared in the opinion section, or in the news pages properly identified as analysis. You would be wrong. Tim Rutten is a media columnist and his articles appear in the Calendar section that contains the Times’ entertainment reporting.<\/p>\n

This means I may have to radically alter my reading habits. Perhaps I should turn first to the Calendar for insight into the news, then pick up the opinion pages for entertainment, where their newest columnist, Jonah Goldberg, is best known for his fiction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The The Los Angeles Times should pay my doctor bills for the heart attack they gave me by publishing an insightful, well-reasoned, and hard-hitting opinion column yesterday. Tim Rutten’s article, Cheney’s History Needs A Revise, is one of the best deconstructions of the Vice President’s hysterical hypocrisy I’ve read to date. In case you missed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[64,61,41],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-dick-cheney","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-tim-rutten"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-1p","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15442,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=15442","url_meta":{"origin":87,"position":0},"title":"It’s Official: Dick Cheney Has Lost His Freakin’ Mind","author":"Mark NC","date":"5\/29\/2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Last night on Fox News, Sean Hannity welcomed Dick Cheney to the program by accusing President Obama of \"apologizing for America\" during a speech at West Point where the President repeatedly extolled our nation's exceptionalism. 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