The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.
Wrong, It’s Colonel Mustard in the Library With the Candlestick
“Spaghetti in Parchment With Clams”–headline, The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 24
News of the Oxymoronic
“What if JFK Had Survived His Assassination?”–headline, Yahoo! News, Nov. 22
Hacks and Flacks
“The White House could finally have its chance to close the books on its Benghazi public relations disaster,” according to a report in PR Week. Oops, that’s not from PR Week or another journal of flackery. It’s from the Associated Press, which explains the background:
Rice’s reputation took a serious hit this fall when she relied on unclassified talking points provided by the intelligence community that portrayed the attack in Benghazi, Libya, as a spontaneous assault by a mob angered by an anti-Muslim video posted on YouTube.
Intelligence officials quickly amended their assessment to conclude the attack hadn’t been related to other film protests across the Middle East. But that revised narrative was slow to reach the public, prompting Republicans to allege a White House cover-up ahead of the Nov. 6 election.
What America needs is faster narratives. Imagine how much better off the country would be if there existed a group of disinterested professionals whose job it was to get information to the public in a free society.
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