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To: LindyBill who wrote (15106)	11/4/2003 7:26:51 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793640

When I posted the Krugman column early today I passed over this quote without comment. The blogs have picked up on the lie in it. Some Americans may share the views of the Republican congressman who said that progress in Iraq was "a better and more important story than losing a couple of soldiers every day." (Support the troops!) This is a snippet of a quote that Representative George Nethercutt of Washington made a couple of weeks ago. The last sentence in the real quote reads like this. (emphasis added) a bigger and better and more important story than losing a couple of soldiers every day, which heaven forbid is awful. Notice that Krugman cut the quote at a comma, not a period, which would have been bad enough. What makes it an even worse "lie" is that the "Seattle Post-Intelligencer;" tried the same stunt last week with the quote. Since early last week, the press has run stories in which Nethercutt has blasted the Seattle P-I for taking him out of context. So Krugman had to know he had it wrong. Dowd did this with a Bush quote a while back. And the Times never printed an apology. So I guess we won't get one this time.