Letters to the Editor
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Implementing lessons learned
In the ongoing FISA battles, we have seen that when Democrats step up, identify Republican falsehoods and then speak truth to them, the media are obligated to report on this and actually managed to do a reasonable job of it. Note the good coverage to Pelosi saying "Bush is wrong and he knows it" and before that the coverage of the letter from "Reyes" (I put Reyes in quotes because I think a staffer wrote this letter which is far more effective than Reyes' subsequent speech and actions have been).
What is missing in the John McCain Iran/Al Qaeda story to this point is for a Democrat to do this same thing. How will the press respond when it is not bloggers, but Clinton or Obama who says "McCain did not misspeak. He said at least four times that Iran is training Al Qaeda. We must not allow untruths to lead us into another unjust war."?