Might be?

Doug Feith, having been there, gives THE complete picture of just how the decision to go to war was made… and how it was not made. Being there… in the room as it were, turns the liberal press’s view on it’s head, and in a fair world, put to bed the very idea that “Bush lied”

After reading the book, or even watching this fine interview, you will know that the only lying about the war in Iraq took place in the New York Times, the Post Dispatch and on the Daily Kos

Even better would be to read David Horowitz’s “Party of Defeat” - How Democrats and Radicals Underminded America’s War on Terror Before and After 9-11. It is the truth about the run-up to the Iraq war that you won’t find in the PD or any other liberal media outlet. I know it would never be reviewed by the PD. This is a must read for every American citizen.

I never watch The Daily Show because I don’t go for snarky, unintelligent attempts at comedy, but assuming they didn’t edit out the trenchant parts, did liberal heads explode when they broadcast the interview?

I saw the interview. Stewart has some of the most interesting guests in talk radio- even if you don’t agree with his views. Feith basically says that the substance of the buildup to the war in Iraq was correct, but the main failure of the administration was its communication to the public.
I find it hard to believe that such a sophisticated group of folks with a compliant MSM and Fox News on their side at the time could have made a mistake. They knew exactly what they were doing and how they were saying it.

Feith got completely owned. Stewart was not buying any of his absurdities.

I watched the entire interview. It is obvious that Feith appeared on the Daily Show in an attempt to try to:

A) salvage his own sordid reputation, and
B) convince the audience that the Bush Administration didn’t lead the charge to invade Iraq, drumming up false intelligence in the process.

Feith failed miserably on both accounts because Stewart refused to play the role of a nodding bobblehead. In fact, Stewart showed himself to be a better interviewer than most members of the mainstream news media. It was refreshing to see Stewart challenging Feith at every turn.

For an evidence-based version of how this country came to occupy Iraq, watch “Buying the War,” a Bill Moyers video, showing that the Bush Administration consciously and intentionally pulled all the necessary strings and the mainstream media marched in lockstep (http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/btw/watch.html).

The United States didn’t end up in Iraq because of a series of accidents and mistakes, as Feith tries to argue. The Downing Street memo and Richard Clarke’s accounts, among much other evidence, shows that the Bush Administration planned to march into Bagdad regardless of the evidence. They got their way, and now they, including Feith, are acting like it’s not their fault. Now we’re seeing an extended media campaing of shameless revisionism.

1. Feith says that his book is based on the notes he took and access to documents from the meetings leading up to the war in Iraq.
Here is the problem with that, unless he took verbatim notes, his notes would have filtered anything he would have thought was irrelevant, hence they would have already been skewed.

2. In the Stewart interview, Feith acted as if he was unaware of the public statements of Rumsfeld, Bush, Cheney, Rice and Powell. When reminded of these his defense is that the public is not remembering them correctly, even though these statements have been replayed many time.
So, either Feith lived in an isolation booth when he was not in these closed meetings, or, he is not as astute as he would like us to believe, or, rather than take responsibility for being wrong in his basic assumptions, he wants the public memory to take the fall for a failed policy.

3. As I watched Feith on the Daily show, there were several moments where his eyes flickered when he got caught flat-footed with a question he was not prepared to answer forthrightly. This is the same eye flicker I have seen in my children when they were teenagers and were getting ready to tell me a story (lie) rather than the truth.

I will go buy his book and read it, but Feith did not do a good job. What is going to happen to him when someone like Bill Moyers interviews him?

Since this is also Open Thread - I am wondering if the PD has any plans to report anything about Obama except how great he is: Where was this reported in the PD?: http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=295659438660017

Centrist -
The fact that you accept David Horowitz as gospel tells a lot about your fundamental assumptions. I remember Horowitz when he was a consumer affairs reporter back when. He was annoying then (he was a “liberal”) and he is annoying now. No fact or situation is safe from his brand of twist and shout.

why don’t you give Kevin Phillips a read?