Jim Lobe: "This week’s feature article in the Murdoch-owned Weekly Standard blames [Rice] — and her exclusively — for 'jettisoning the Bush Doctrine' and leading the president himself down the garden path toward appeasement, particularly with respect to Syria, Iran, and North Korea. While the article does not tell us much that was not already in the public record, the fact that it was written by Feith’s former favorite leakee and Cheney’s personally authorized biographer, favorite reporter, and occasional travel companion, Stephen Hayes, makes it worth at least a quick read-through if, for no other reason, than to demonstrate the contempt that the vice president and presumably Elliott Abrams (if I’m reading the anonymous sources correctly) bear for Bush’s secretary of state. That Rice gave Hayes at least two extended interviews — from which he published what have to be the most unflattering and frankly embarrassing excerpts — shows a remarkable lack of judgment on her part." Indeed, a hapless effort once again to reach out to get a fair hearing from the most disingenuous elements.

Posted by Laura at May 29, 2008 10:59 AM