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March 30, 2007BELTWAY BLOGROLL
Is President Bush Reading Iraqi Blogs?
As noted in this morning's Technology Daily:
President Bush on Wednesday referred to an Iraq-based blog while defending his military strategy.
AP reports that Bush quoted from a blog in a speech at the National Cattlemen's Beef Association to demonstrate the progress being made in Iraq. He did not identify the blog that he was quoting.
The White House clarified later that Bush referred to Iraq The Model, which is written by Mohammed and Omar Fadhil, two brothers whom Bush met in Washington in 2004.
"What the president was doing was taking an opportunity to talk about what one person's expression is," White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said. "But that doesn't mean that there aren't other people having the same expression."
UPDATE: The Seattle Post-Intelligencer thought Bush's appeal to the Iraqi blog in defense of his war strategy noteworthy enough to ridicule him in an editorial. But conservative blogger Michelle Malkin chastised AP for "anti-blog editorializing" in its news story about Bush's mention of the blog.
Posted by Danny | 12:13 PM
