The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.
Vultures Help Woman Rid Home of Boy Scouts–Now That Would Be News
“Boy Scouts Help Woman Rid Home of Vultures”–headline, Associated Press, Feb. 23
Reliable Sources
“A new classified directive to coalition forces in Afghanistan puts restrictions on nighttime raids of Afghan homes and compounds, according to a senior U.S. official who has seen the document,” CNN reports from Washington:
The official declined to be identified because a declassified version of the document has not been made public.
So let’s see if we have this straight: CNN is granting the official anonymity not because the information he is revealing is classified, but because the declassified version is private. We’re sure we’d be grateful for CNN’s transparency if we could follow its explanation.
Calling Obama a Bad President Insults Bad Presidents
Remember when Rahm Emanuel called liberal Democrats “retards” and had to apologize–to the retarded? That joke is playing out again in a related context, the [Huffington Post] reports:
In last month’s issue of Foreign Policy magazine, leading analyst and Iraq War supporter Walter Russell Mead opined that President Obama’s foreign policy agenda was turning into a duplicate of Jimmy Carter’s.
Mead’s comparison prompted a lengthy and indignant letter from–we’re not kidding–Jimmy Carter!
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