Yesterday's recd diary on the Wall Street Journal's blatant lying re:Phil Gramm banking legislation struck a nerve. My wife got a free WSJ subscription via airline miles and we have gotten the paper every day for about a year. We;ve never paid them a dime which will give you an idea of how desperate they are for subscribers. The op-ed page of the Journal has gotten so dishonest and misleading that it makes one feel like a citizen of the former Soviet Union reading Pravda. Blatant lying about energy issues, politics, global warming, foreign policy that any twelve year could debunk in a manner of minutes. Yesterday, Bret Stephens supplied a perfect example of jaw dropping historical revisionism in his op-ed column entitled "Palin and the 'Experience' Canard". Basically, Stephens took three Presidents and compared them with Sarah Palin.
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