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Posted on March 28, 2016 by Christopher Allbritton

Craziness on Display

Posted on July 13, 2007 by Christopher Allbritton

One of the things writing the U.S. media roundup on IraqSlogger allows me to do is get a high dudgeon up over the crap that passes for analysis on op-ed pages … or sloppy writing in the middle of reporting. (Michael Gordon of the New York Times has been raked over the coals for his …

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Latest IraqSlogger: Chalabi’s back

Posted on July 7, 2007 by Christopher Allbritton

My latest for IraqSlogger is up, and there’s a howler of an op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal. As I wrote for the Slogger: Melik Kaylan writes a fawning piece on Ahmad Chalabi for the Wall Street Journal‘s op-ed page, calling him the “nearest thing Iraqis currently possess to a genuine walk-and-talk democratic politician.” For …

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Alan Johnston Goes Free!

Posted on July 4, 2007 by Christopher Allbritton

Thank goodness. After 16 weeks, BBC journalist Alan Johnston has gone free. I can now remove that logo to the right. Thanks to negotiations between Hamas and his kidnappers, Johnston wasn’t killed in a cowboy raid. Good to Hamas for that wise tack. While there are many concerns about Hamas’ takeover of Gaza, there is …

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There’s Competence and Then There’s “Competence”

Posted on June 19, 2007 by Christopher Allbritton

I’m coming a bit late to this because of server problems, but it’s something that’s been bugging me about the whole Reid-Pace “competence” imbroglio. The question nagging at me is not who called whom incompetent or whether Reid was wrong or right to do so. I mean, Pace had just been fired, so Reid’s not …

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