The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.
Bottom Stories of the Day
- “Drive-By Shooting May Have Been Drug Related”–headline, WEAU-TV Web site (Eau Claire, Wis.), Nov. 9
- “Mike Huckabee Ambivalent About White House Run”–headline, Politico.com, Nov. 9
- “On Asia Trip, Obama Won’t Become First U.S. President to See Hiroshima, Nagasaki”–headline, FoxNews.com, Nov. 10
- “Putin Feels ‘Nostalgia’ for East Germany”–headline, Local (Germany), Nov. 8
Other Than That, the Story Was Accurate–II
“Editor’s note, 9:57 p.m. EDT: The White House has issued the following response to this story, attributed to White House National Security Advisor James Jones: ‘Reports that President Obama has made a decision about Afghanistan are absolutely false. He has not received final options for his consideration, he has not reviewed those options with his national security team, and he has not made any decisions about resources. Any reports to the contrary are completely untrue and come from uninformed sources.’ “–CBSNews.com, Nov. 9
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