Commenting On Will, Part III

Howard Kurtz Slaps Fellow Postie George Will For Smearing Webb | TPMCafe: "Today a Post reader asked Kurtz in the chat about the omission: 'Why hasn't the Post issued a correction to George Will's column on Jim Webb? Is misrepresentation by omission acceptable for columnists?'

Here's the key part of Kurtz's reply:

It seems to me there was a key omission in which Bush preceded his response to Webb's get-them-out-of-Iraq comment by saying, 'I didn't ask you that.' That does make clear that both men, not just Webb, were being snippy.

That is nowhere near as hard-hitting as it should be, given the nature of Will's clear-cut and obviously deliberate effort to deceive Post readers. But still, we'll take it: After all, this came amid a hurried chat with readers, Kurtz and Will are colleagues, and Kurtz did accuse Will of a 'key omission.'

Relatedly, there are well over 100 pages of comments on the Post's site about Will's column, many of them bitingly critical. . ."