Morning Must-Read: Ezra Klein (2007): No Exit Revisited
(2007):
No Exit Revisited: “Andrew Sullivan tries to answer my post from yesterday…
…on No Exit, the [Betsy McCaughey] article he published attacking the Clinton health plan. He says that ‘I don’t think it’s fair to expose the internal editing of a piece but there was a struggle and it’s fair to say I didn’t win every skirmish,’ which is interesting, and he says that ‘I was aware of the piece’s flaws but nonetheless was comfortable running it as a provocation to debate.’ What he doesn’t say is that he believes the piece accurately described the Clinton health care plan. Which is what’s at issue. There were reasons to criticize the delivery structure the Clintons sought to implement, but No Exit simply lied…