Eric Boehlert (1965–2022)

If you're a blog-reader, most of the information contained in here isn't new. If you're not, you'll find questions here that were never addressed by the mainstream media. For example, how come the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth got such a free pass from the media during the 2004 presidential election despite the evidence that everything they said was verifiably false and the press knew it? For example, why was the evidence contained in the Downing Street Memo (that war in Iraq was a certainty and that intelligence data was being "fixed" to support the war) virtually ignored by the press?

It's a good compilation of things the media has missed or ignored about the Bush Administration over the past five years. That said, it shows serious signs of being rushed into print; there are myriad misspellings and typos within it. That's a shame, because when I find those mistakes in a book it detracts from my willingness to believe what I'm reading. "If they can't spell, why should I trust the premise they present?"… (mere)