Even good journalists can make mistakes, based on commonly held assumptions which are simply wrong. Take the New York Times’s economics reporter David Leonhardt.
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Scorcho! The Atlantic’s Clive Crook is an alumnus of The Economist and temparmentally inclined to political centrism. So it’s a bit of a surprise to see his considerably less than admiring assessment of Barack Obama’s press conference today. “Obama is the co-author of the current breakdown in Washington,” he concludes.
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Little more than 24 hours after telling the Washington Examiner that it would not release their ethics policy, a spokesman for the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC) has released a statement indicating a change of heart, noting the ethics guidelines would be available on the FCIC website (click here).
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It started with President Obama's much-praised appearance before House Republicans on Jan. 29. Discussing last year's $787 billion stimulus bill, Obama accused the GOP of hypocrisy, saying lawmakers are returning to their districts to take credit for federal spending they opposed in Washington. "A lot of you have gone to appear at ribbon-cuttings for the same projects that you voted against," Obama said.
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The attempted bombing of Northwest Airlines Flight 253 was more than just al Qaeda's latest attempt to bring death and destruction to American shores. It was also, in its still-unfolding political aftermath, a head-on collision between Barack Obama's soaring rhetoric and the reality of terrorism.
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