Letters to the Editor
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Surprise! Walsh absolves Hillary!
It's no surprise really. Walsh has gone from a mere aside expressing shock that no one in the media has covered Senator Clinton's hawkish stance regarding Iraq to absolving Hillary of responsibility for her defenses of and excuses for her hawkish stance. Did Senator Clinton admit her mistake? No, she passed the blame. But that's good enough for Joan!
Hillary Clinton's mistake was not "believing" the President: it was in authorizing him to use whatever power he chose against Iraq. She excuses herself with the half-truth that she "believed" the President would use inspectors and diplomacy first. Walsh eats it up, ready for any sign that she can forgive Hillary and forget that Hillary has not changed, has not admitted a mistake, supports a permanent US base in Baghdad, and would likely keep thousands of troops (and "defense contractors") in Iraq.
Salon has become very interesting lately. In one corner we've got Glenn Greenwald doing excellent work exposing the bias and kowtowing to power that has hobbled our national press. But just a desk or two away, we've got Greenwald's boss, Joan Walsh, exposing her own bias, kowtowing to her own favored power-players, and dancing with the Democrats in the same manner that Greenwald's targets waltz with Republicans and foxtrot with Fox News (or King Drudge).
Of course, Walsh's excuse is that she's not doing journalism: she's just blogging, writing opinion. Or that it's impossible to remove all bias from her "reporting."
Astute readers will note it's the same defense used by those journalists exposed by Greenwald.