Crying foul on "Fair Game"

A scorching movie review in the place you would least expect it, a Washington Post editorial.  Here is a sample:

Hollywood has a habit of making movies about historical events without regard for the truth; "Fair Game" is just one more example. But the film's reception illustrates a more troubling trend of political debates in Washington in which established facts are willfully ignored. Mr. Wilson claimed that he had proved that Mr. Bush deliberately twisted the truth about Iraq, and he was eagerly embraced by those who insist the former president lied the country into a war. Though it was long ago established that Mr. Wilson himself was not telling the truth - not about his mission to Niger and not about his wife - the myth endures. We'll join the former president in hoping that future historians get it right.

3, 2, 1... heads explode in the left-wing blogosphere.

First stop TBogg at Firedoglake:

America’s fifth most influential liberal journalist Fred Hiatt doesn’t have enough to do these days having delegated most of his editorial responsibilities to sensible classical liberals like Charles Krauthammer, Michael Gerson, Marc Thiessen, Jennifer Rubin, Robert Kagan, Robert Samuelson, Kathleen Parker, and George Will. So today he thought he would try his hand at movie reviewing but, alas, he hasn’t grasped the differences between “drama” and “documentary.”

Heads-a-poppin' at Balloon Juice:

It was a movie—you know, fiction that tries to get to larger truths about life. But because one of the truths that it tried to explore was the waste of the Iraq war, Fred had to go on the attack.

Brad DeLong writes in a post titled, "There Ought to Be Resignations in Protest and Disgust from the Washington Post Every Day, But Today More than Ever:

Why oh why can't we have a better press corps?

Excellent question Brad, let us know when you come up with an answer.

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