A slow news day on a moribund news weekend allows the "All The Liberal Talking Points That Are Fit To Print" crowd to capture the NY Times and deliver this: Military Draft? Official Denials Leave Skeptics.
A few sentences of official denials are balanced by many, many paragraphs explaining the conspiracy and wondering why this notion of an impending draft won't die. However, Carl Hulse, Investigative Ace in Pursuit of the Truth, never notices that John Kerry himself has helped keep the issue alive by referring to various Bush Administration policies as a "back door draft".
Mr. Hulse also finds discussions of a draft, pro and con, at the Op-Ed sites of other newspapers, without noticing that his very own NY Times ran a guest piece calling for a return of the draft last May.
And to conclude our piling on, we feel obliged to mock this particular identification of a source:
Lawrence J. Korb, an assistant secretary of defense in the Reagan administration, says unease about the prospect of a draft surfaces frequently in his travels around the country. He says unwillingness to accept official reassurances is attributable to public cynicism about the Bush administration's case for war in Iraq.
"I think it is skepticism that we have been misled so many times about this war: weapons of mass destruction, ties to Al Qaeda, a cakewalk," said Mr. Korb, now at the liberal Center for American Progress. "People are clearly worried and figure, `They are just waiting until the election is over to spring the bad news on us.' "
Hmm, he is now at the liberal Center for American Progress. Why not identify him as that before presenting his left-leaning talking points, and later mention that he served in the Reagan Administration? Why not mention both facts in the identification - is "Lawrence J. Korb, an assistant secretary of defense in the Reagan administration who is now with the liberal Center for American Progress" really that awkward stylisitically?
Well, it's a slow news weekend - by Monday, we look forward to "Elvis Lives? Despite Official Denials, Skeptics Persist".
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