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Nowhere
does it seem truer that nice guys finish last than in politics. Last
week, the progressive activist group MoveOn.org got slammed in the media
for including two ads comparing George W. Bush to Adolph Hitler on its
popular Web site. The commercials, it turned out, had not been created
by MoveOn, but were instead two out of approximately 1,500 submitted by
freelance filmmakers for a contest of 30-second anti-Bush political
spots. Under sharp criticism, Wes Boyd, one of the organization’s
founders, apologized, explaining that the ads, which were removed from the
Web site, had slipped through MoveOn’s screening process. But this
hasn’t muted the right-wing outcry.
About a month earlier, however, the author William Rivers Pitt pointed out on the Web page Liberal Slant (www.liberalslant.com) that President Bush’s disproven claim from last year’s State of the Union speech that Saddam Hussein had attempted to obtain uranium from Niger was still posted on the White House Web site. Sure enough, a recent visit to the site by this writer confirmed Pitt’s report. The Web page www.whitehouse.gov/response/disarm.html contains the following statement: “He (Hussein) recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa, according to the British Government.” The mainstream media, so quick to pounce on MoveOn, have yet to pick up Pitt’s story. List of Metroland Stories by Glenn Weiser |