York column compounded Wash. Post reporters' misrepresentation of their own interview

Published: August 3, 2007, 7:49 pm

Tags: byron york, the hill, national security foreign policy, war in iraq

An August 3 column in The Hill by Byron York cited a Washington Post article in which reporters Dan Balz and Chris Cillizza misrepresented their own interview with Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) by claiming Clyburn told them that a "generally positive" report on the Iraq war from Gen. David Petraeus, commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, would be "a real big problem" for Democrats. York cited the article to support his contention that Democratic leaders in Congress are "invested in U.S. failure" in Iraq. In fact, Clyburn was responding to a question about what Democrats would do if Petraeus recommended continuing the so-called "surge" of forces in Iraq. The question posed by Balz was, "What do Democrats do if General Petraeus comes in in September and says, 'This is working very, very well at this point; we would be foolish to back away from it'?" Clyburn responded: "Well, that would be a real big problem for us, no question about that, simply because of those 47 Blue

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