Daily Kos: Holy Fact Check, Batman! McClatchy Drops a Bomb

by SusanG

Sun Jan 14, 2007 at 05:47:07 PM PST

And a jaw-droppingly beautiful one it is, dead smack in the middle of its news section, mind you – not as an op/ed.

McClatchy (formerly the excellent Washington bureau of Knight Ridder) begins:

Administration leaving out important details on Iraq

By MARK SEIBEL
McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON - President Bush and his aides, explaining their reasons for sending more American troops to Iraq, are offering an incomplete, oversimplified and possibly untrue version of events there that raises new questions about the accuracy of the administration's statements about Iraq.