10/25/2003

Weekly Standard is outing Arkin the oh so Left writer of the Boykin piece in the Temple of Evil. Hugh Hewitt writes:

Arkin cut his teeth with the lefty Institute for Policy Studies, and went from there to positions with Greenpeace, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and Human Rights Watch.
ARKIN SET OUT to damage an administration he unquestionably loathes, and found an exposed target in Boykin. The usual suspects have gathered round to stone the general on the basis of edited reports compiled by an obvious ideologue....
Then FOX finally airs out the story they actually broke. It's buried inside Brit Hume's page.
The speech excerpts on NBC last week portraying Lt. Gen. William Boykin as an intolerant, religious zealot were furnished by William Arkin, a columnist for the L.A. Times and a consultant for NBC. In addition to the excerpts on tape, Arkin says he has transcripts of Boykin's full remarks. But despite promises to release those transcripts, Arkin has declined to do so.

For the record, before the L.A. Times, Arkin worked for the Institute for Policy Studies -- a self-described "progressive think tank" run by, among others, outspoken war critic Harry Belafonte. And for Greenpeace -- the militant environmental group. And for Human Rights Watch -- the vehemently anti-war organization.
The Temple of Evil, noted far and wide for its bias (the phony picture of a U.S. soldier pointing a gun at Iraqi kids; the hit piece on Arnold, etc., etc., and on on) is still hiding the full transcript. This is just one more "hit piece" from the LA Times.

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