Blame America first

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A must read — the New York Times finally editorializes on the oil for food scandal today and blames, get ready, ...the United States for it.

Richard Baehr  12 5 04

Thomas Lifson adds:

Note the emotive language employed to prejudice the reader:

"gaggle of conservatives"

"the wrath of Republican Washington"

"call for his scalp"

"ever—shriller attacks"

"whiff of nepotism has set the hounds baying"