THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION’S DREAM SUNDAY:

THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION’S DREAM SUNDAY: The Bushies’ two most tenacious foils over the past two years — France and the New York Times — are facing a world of hurt this week. In France, the Elf Aquitaine scandal has metastasizedto the point where it has managed to include Iraqi billionaires and the Irish financial sector ...

By , a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and co-host of the Space the Nation podcast.

THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION'S DREAM SUNDAY: The Bushies' two most tenacious foils over the past two years -- France and the New York Times -- are facing a world of hurt this week. In France, the Elf Aquitaine scandal has metastasizedto the point where it has managed to include Iraqi billionaires and the Irish financial sector (link via InstaPundit). Meanwhile the New York Times' credibility is hemorrhaging badly, as Jayson Blair's web of deceit is put on full display [Doesn't the Times deserve credit for putting the results of its investigation so prominently on Page 1?--ed. Yes, absolutely -- although one could argue that this was merely a pre-emptive strike that prevented other news outlets from breaking the magnitude of the story behind Blair's dismissal.] Andrew Sullivan and Mickey Kaus are -- naturally -- all over this story. However, I believe Glenn Reynolds's response is probably the most devastating. UPDATE: Matthew Yglesias takes this post a bit too seriously:

THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION’S DREAM SUNDAY: The Bushies’ two most tenacious foils over the past two years — France and the New York Times — are facing a world of hurt this week. In France, the Elf Aquitaine scandal has metastasizedto the point where it has managed to include Iraqi billionaires and the Irish financial sector (link via InstaPundit). Meanwhile the New York Times’ credibility is hemorrhaging badly, as Jayson Blair’s web of deceit is put on full display [Doesn’t the Times deserve credit for putting the results of its investigation so prominently on Page 1?–ed. Yes, absolutely — although one could argue that this was merely a pre-emptive strike that prevented other news outlets from breaking the magnitude of the story behind Blair’s dismissal.] Andrew Sullivan and Mickey Kaus are — naturally — all over this story. However, I believe Glenn Reynolds’s response is probably the most devastating. UPDATE: Matthew Yglesias takes this post a bit too seriously:

[Drezner’s post] sums up everything that’s bad about the Bush administration. A “dream Sunday” consists not in making substantive progress on issues that would improve the lives of Americans — employment, homeland security, nation-building in Iraq, North Korea, health care, etc. — rather it consists in the revelation of embarrassing information about its enemies.

Daniel W. Drezner is a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and co-host of the Space the Nation podcast. Twitter: @dandrezner

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