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The WaComPo's editorial on the Scooter Libby trial: the 'Daily Show' version

By now, nearly four years into the Iraq war and related controversies, one is tempted to simply disregard the Washington Post editorial page, and some of its regular columnists, on those matters: They have been so wrong on nearly everything for so long. The paper's news pages regularly contradict and embarrass some of the opinion writers with those stubborn things called "facts," so you might wisely spend all of your time there.

But rather than have all that copy and hard work on the opinion page go to waste, I suggest that you try to imagine any Iraq-related editorial in the Post as a typical exchange between Jon Stewart and an out-to-lunch "correspondent" on The Daily Show. Take the Post’s editorial last week calling the Libby case a “pointless Washington scandal.” It lamented that the case was brought in the first place. Putting that editorial into a Daily Show routine it might go something like this. Nearly all of the statements by "correspondent Jason Jones" come directly from the Post editorial...

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