In the paper's full-page Monday overview of congressional races from across the nation, Kate Zernike [1] contributes this misleading nugget:
"A few towns away, Mr. Murphy rallied other veterans alongside Representative John P. Murtha [2], the conservative Pennsylvania Democrat whose turnabout on Iraq a year ago has made him his party's face of opposition to the war."
Murtha is the anti-war Democratic congressman and hero to liberals who gained front-page heads and lead stories on the nightly newscasts for calling for an immediate pullout of Iraq -a point Zernike doesn't explain.
Although he isn't a left-winger, Murtha's lifetime rating of 33 [3]from the American Conservative Union shows he's no conservative, either, no matter what Zernike says (she's had trouble with misleading statements of late, including botching [4] John Kerry's "botched joke").