WaPo’s Misleading Headline on Saudi Oil Talks
By
robert108
on May 17, 2008 at 07:45 am
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The lefties lie again; we got the increase, and the President got it for us.
President Bush’s effort to coax the Saudis to boost oil output was given wildly different treatments on the front pages of the Washington Post than the British broadsheet the Financial Times.
“Saudis bow to oil pressure: Kingtom to lift output to highest in two years; US lobbying comes after price nears $128” reads the May 17 front page FT headline. (The headline for the online version is slightly different: “Saudis to boost oil output after US pressure.")
But the Washington Post headline painted Bush’s diplomacy as an abject failure: “Oil Efforts Are Best Possible, Saudis Say: Bush Unable to Win Concessions Likely to Lower Gasoline Prices.”
Of course, the Saudis DID agree to boost daily output by 300,000 barrels. As the Post’s Abramowitz noted, “[t]hat would take Saudi production to 9.4 million barrels a day” whereas the max the kingdom can pump out a day would be “11.3 million barrels.”
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The lefties lie again; we got the increase, and the President got it for us.
