I've already posted anti-Scheer, so before the day's out, let's point to an anti-Dowd piece. Then I'll stop throwing stones before someone peers in my glass house. This one in the Rocky Mountain News (via Chronwatch).
Consider her May 14 column. She wrote: "Busy chasing off Saddam, the president and vice president had told us that al-Qaida was spent. 'Al-Qaida is on the run,' President Bush said last week. 'That group of terrorists who attacked our country is slowly but surely being decimated. . . . They're not a problem anymore.' "
Dowd chastised the president for his smug overconfidence about al-Qaida being "not a problem anymore," just days before al-Qaida pulled off a major bombing in Saudi Arabia.
The problem, however, is that Dowd used ellipses to completely change the meaning of the president's remarks. The president never claimed that al-Qaida was no longer a problem. Rather, he said that the al-Qaida leaders who had been killed or captured were no longer a problem.
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