Pot Meet Kettle Posted by Michael Cohen

Today in the New York Times article on the back and forth between Obama and McCain on the surge there is this rather incomprehensible moment:

But several foreign policy analysts said that if Mr. McCain got the chronology wrong, his broader point — that the troop escalation was crucial for the Awakening movement to succeed and spread — was right. “I would say McCain is three-quarters right in this debate,” said Michael E. O’Hanlon, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.

I'm trying to decide what's more shocking here that the New York Times couldn't find ANYONE other than Michael O'Hanlon to offer a comment or that Michael O'Hanlon thinks John McCain is right. Jeez, of course Michael O'Hanlon thinks John McCain is right! I can't imagine what McCain could say about Iraq that Michael O'Hanlon wouldn't agree with (hey Michael Cooper, O'Hanlon is running to be McCain's national security advisor).

But here's the best part:

Mr. O’Hanlon, of the Brookings Institution, said he did not understand why Mr. Obama seemed to want to debate the success of the surge. “Any human being is reluctant to admit a mistake,” he said, noting that it takes on added risk in a political campaign.

Mr O'Hanlon meet kettle. Kettle meet Michael O'Hanlon.

Update (Written By Ilan):  Editor and Publisher takes a crack at Michael Cooper for his questionable reporting on this story.

But The New York Times' summary today, in seeking balancing quotes, did not reveal the background of its key pro-McCain source.

Reporter Michael Cooper, halfway through the recounting, wrote, "The National Security Network, a liberal foreign policy group, called Mr. McCain’s explanation of the surge’s history 'completely wrong.'”

Cooper then added: "But several foreign policy analysts said that if Mr. McCain got the chronology wrong, his broader point — that the troop escalation was crucial for the Awakening movement to succeed and spread — was right." He then quoted Michael O'Hanlon: “I would say McCain is three-quarters right in this debate,” identifying him only as a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.

This seemed odd, in that Cooper had clearly identified the background of the National Security Network as "liberal" without acknowledging that O'Hanlon was, and remains, one of the key proponents and defenders of the surge from the beginning -- even before the beginning, in op-eds in The New York Times and elsewhere.

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