For years Charles Krauthammer toiled on pithy columns for The Washington Post. The Harvard-trained psychiatrist turned conservative giant, eventually found his footing and became a Pulitzer-Prize winning columnist, best-selling novelist, and iconic Fox News commentator.
That’s not how his old employers at The Washington Post chose to remember him (RedState):
The Washington Post‘s obituary of Krauthammer decided to highlight something different: his “neoconservative” politics, making that the focus of the very first sentence, and blaming him and his work for “lay[ing] the ideological groundwork” for the Iraq War.
Yes, really.
This is the first sentence:
Charles Krauthammer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post columnist and intellectual provocateur who championed the muscular foreign policy of neoconservatism that helped lay the ideological groundwork for the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, died June 21 at 68.
Throughout their not-so-subtle hit-piece, the Post’s writer takes potshots at the conservative legend with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight and overwhelming liberal arrogance. Krauthammer’s worst sins: believing the Iraq War wouldn’t last as long as it did and occasionally taking “a corrosive tone” about President Barack Obama.
Ben Bradlee would be proud.
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