Daily Howler - June 14, 2005

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TUESDAY, JUNE 14, 2005

THEIR MASTER’S VOICE: In today’s paper, the New York Times continues its attempt to minimize the importance of Downing Street memo and its detailed companion memo—this earlier document which appeared in Sunday’s Times of London. Yesterday, David Sanger tortured the lengthy new document, picking out a single phrase to suggest that the Bush Admin hadn’t decided on war by July 2002. Today, Todd Purdum tortures both of the documents to offer another Bush-friendly debunking. The two documents have “caused a political storm on both sides of the Atlantic,” Purdum writes. “But the documents are not so shocking.”