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Media Matters gets the General's dates wrong

In a graphic attached to analysis of a Washington Post editorial, Media Matters lazily noted General Clark was retired from the military "by 2003." He was running for the Democratic nomination by 2003, and he was calling for Rumsfeld to be fired by 2003, but he retired in May of 2000. The chart notes Clark was calling for Rumsfeld's resignation "by 2004." It was in September 2003 in New Hampshire, as TalkLeft documented, he said his first act as president would be to fire Donald Rumsfeld for his conduct of the war in Iraq. In May of 2004, on Meet the Press, Clark said Rumsfeld should resign in the wake of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal.

Get with it MM, none of this information would have been hard to find, and you're supposed to be better at this stuff, so you can critique the MSM with some credibility.

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