Why Oh Why Can't We Have a Better Press Corps? (Fred Hiatt and the Washington Post Strike Again)

That there have been no resignations-on-principle from the Post's editorial staff over this is one of the reasons that I give the Post ten years:

'Wash Post' Endorses Lieberman for Senate -- While Hitting War on Front Page: By E&P Staff: The Washington Post's editorial page endorsed Sen. Joe Lieberman for re-election in his third-party Connecticut U.S. Senate race on Sunday.... The Post... even asserted that Lieberman had been making "sharp criticism" of the president on the war for years -- likely a surprise to most Democratic voters in the state.

Just as the Post editorial page was endorsing... [Lieberman], the paper's front page... painted the war in the worst possible light. It opened, "The war in Iraq has become the primary recruitment vehicle for violent Islamic extremists, motivating a new generation of potential terrorists around the world whose numbers are increasing faster than the United States and its allies are eliminating the threat, U.S. intelligence analysts have concluded.

"A 30-page National Intelligence Estimate completed in April cites the 'centrality' of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, and the insurgency that has followed, as the leading inspiration for new Islamic extremist networks and cells that are united by little more than an anti-Western agenda. Rather than contributing to eventual victory in the global counterterrorism struggle, it concludes that the situation in Iraq has worsened the U.S. position, according to officials familiar with the classified document."