Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan’s explosive memoir lambastes the press for rolling over for the Bush administration’s sales job on the Iraq war. But Seth Leibsohn, a right-wing blogger at the National Review’s web site, was apparently on another planet at the time. He writes, “Raise your hand if you have any evidence that the press was too soft on the administration.”
So just for fun, in my little way, I’m helping the rest of us take him up on that challenge with a Facebook group: Raise Your Hand if You Think the Media Was Too Soft on Bush.
If you remember the soft-ball questions, the attacks on the patriotism or character on anyone who questioned the drive toward war, the overwhelming presence of pro-war voices in the media…
…then raise your hand. Take a picture. And then upload it here!
