Daily Telegraph headline:
Hay Festival 2011: ex-CIA man claims Barack Obama 'doesn't have a clue'
The real story: it's Michael Scheuer restating that no Western leaders have a clue and that we could largely end the terrorist threat by dumping Israel and the House of Saud and pulling out of Afghanistan. Naturally I thought reading the headline that I'd get some right-wing attack on Obama for not torturing enough prisoners or something. Instead I got a left-wing attack on the United States and Britain.
So, is this bias on the part of the headline writer trying to spin this into an anti-Obama story? Or is it the headline writer trying to trick right-wing readers into exposing themselves to a point of view they'd usually roundly ignore?
The Daily Telegraph is a conservative paper, but it is a British conservative paper. I guess anti-Obama Tories might be anti-militaristic too. It was Labour that was gungho for Iraq, after all.
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