Smoking Gun: Washington Post Hires Top Bush Speechwriter

[Raster]

by Jeff Cohen

Few media marching bands have beat the Iraq war drums more frantically and with more influence than the editorial pages of the Washington Post. On Monday, the Post announced the hiring of another drummer boy, one who played a key propaganda role inside the Bush White House.

The Post editorial pages were an echo chamber for pre-war distortions and paranoid fantasies originated by the White House Iraq Group (WHIG). So it’s grotesquely fitting that the Post would hire as an op-ed columnist, Michael Gerson, Bush’s top speechwriter who – as a key wordsmith within WHIG – helped originate the flights of rhetorical fancy that so dazzled the Post’s laptop warriors. Gerson spun the deceit; the Post peddled it. Now they’ll operate under the same roof.

In explaining why the Post was adding yet another pro-war voice to its op-ed page, hawkish editorial page editor Fred Hiatt described Gerson as being “a different kind of conservative from the other conservatives on our page.” Thanks, Fred, for all the diversity.

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There will also be a protest march to the Washington Post headquarters that evening. With the newspaper’s hiring of Gerson, I know an appropriate slogan: “Two, four, six, eight/Separate the press and state.”

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0914-28.htm
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collaborator

n 1: someone who assists in a plot 2: someone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force 3: an associate who works with others toward a common goal; "partners in crime"

[MADem]

1. What horrific judgment!!! Ya gotta wonder about that idiotic choice

http://projects.washingtonpost.com/staff/email/fred+hiatt/

You can email Fred Hiatt at the link above, but I think he is a HUGE chunk of the problem....

[ShortnFiery]

2. The WP Editorial Section sold-out during the run up to The Invasion

of Iraq. Other than some of their non-editorial articles - some - they are The Mouthpiece for the Republican Party. Whereas, The Washington Times complements it by being the "bulldog" fighter and #1 mouthpiece for the RNC. :thumbsdown: :(

[Rageneau]

3. This fellow will make a nice fit among the fascists at the WaHoPo.