All Hank, all the time.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Spanky
He is the Pentagon Reporter for the Washington Post. Need I say more?

Considering that you just recommended a book by a reporter for The New Yorker, one might start to think that your concern about where people write is selective.

Seriously I have seen him interviewed a few time including on Frontline and the guy seemed incredibly biased to me. The guy seems to think everything Rumsfield does is wrong. When people are that sweeping in their criticism my radar goes up. Its like listening to George Will talk about Clinton or McCain.

I have not seen him speak, and you may be right. OTOH, there are a lot of reasonable people who think that everything Rumsfeld has done is wrong. Sometimes sweeping criticism is deserved. What is a sportswriter covering the Temple football team to do?

Lefty bloggers whom I respect were trashing Ricks a few weeks back when his book came out because his reporting from a few years ago gave little sign that he thought the war was a clusterfuck. So he has been accused of following the conventional wisdom too closely. (Which itself would be a form of bias.) Others have defended him.

Whatever one may think of Ricks, it's too cute by half to respond to a fairly specific factual assertion by saying that he's biased and then failing to otherwise engage. If that's your best effort, why bother?