They Were Against the War From the Beginning

Editor and Publisher is absolutely giddy that the "editorialists roused themselves from seeming acceptance" of the war in Iraq. This is the sub-headline:

This past week, widely scattered newspaper editorialists roused themselves from seeming acceptance of the continuing slaughter in Iraq to voice, for the first time in many cases, outright condemnation of the war.

Emphasis mine. No bias in that paragraph. The essay goes on and on with the writer creaming his jeans about the "rousing" of the journalistic world.

Is this guy nuts? Has he been reading any newspapers for the last two years? Evidently not.

It's a damn shame when Muslim clerics understand what's going on better than elitist scribes:

A crowd of 600 Afghan clerics gathered in front of an historic mosque yesterday to strip the fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar of his claim to religious authority, in a ceremony that provided a significant boost to the presidency of Hamid Karzai. The declaration, signed by 1,000 clerics from across the country, is an endorsement of the US-backed programme of reconciliation with more moderate elements of the Taliban movement that Karzai has been pursuing ahead of the country's first parliamentary elections, due in September.

When will the media understand that polls are garbage when gaging how the country feels about the war? The questions are skewed, hence the results are skewed.