In October of 1962, upon being caught in a direct and unambiguous lie — that the Pentagon knew of no offensive weapons in Cuba, when in fact Defense Department officials were debating whether to invade the island in order to remove those very weapons — Arthur Sylvester, assistant secretary of defense for public affairs, made […]
Paul Waldman
Paul Waldman is a weekly columnist and senior writer for The American Prospect. He also writes for the Plum Line blog at The Washington Post and The Week and is the author of Being Right Is Not Enough: What Progressives Must Learn From Conservative Success.
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Dishonor Guard
When Michael Moore called George W. Bush a “deserter” at a January 18 rally for Wesley Clark, he stepped way over the line, injecting into the public discourse a scurrilous charge with no basis in fact, the kind of defamation that has rightly earned the moniker “political hate speech” from Republicans. Or at least that’s […]
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Gored by the Media Bull
We may never know the real reason Al Gore opted to bow out of the presidential race. In his interview announcing this decision on 60 Minutes, the former vice president said he wanted the 2004 race to be about the future, not the past. While he had the “energy and the drive and the ambition” […]