The John Murtha Whitewash at the Washington Post

The nut graf on Murtha in Bush Tries to Tone Down High-Pitched Debate on Iraq by Peter Baker and David Brown:

Without being asked, Bush praised Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.), a decorated Vietnam War veteran and hawkish legislator who last week declared that the Iraq situation had become so bad that the United States needs to immediately withdraw troops.

So the Post continues to distort Murtha's record. As Glenn Reynolds said over the weekend:

This is what angers people -- they decide on a story line, and they stick to it. And the agreed story line is pretty much always anti-war.

It kinda makes a guy wonder what else isn't being reported. I mean, I know which way the unreported context is going to tilt, but not the particular secret on any given day. It's what Donald Rumsfeld might call a known unknown.

Anyway, apart from the damage this inflicts on a public to which the Post owes the truth, it's amusing to contrast Dana Priest with Dana Milbank, Charles Babington, Shailagh Murray, Peter Baker, and David Brown. Priest can pry secrets out of sources who would be thrown in prison for exposing classified operations. But the combined national political staff has yet to discover Murtha's lonstanding claims about being misled about WMD, dire unfulfilled warnings about a secretly planned callup of reserves, a vote against a resolution saying the world was safer with Saddam gone, and a vote in favor of Rep. Charles Rangel's stunt to propose reviving the draft. For starters.