In TNR’s world Kristol is the war’s Mark Fuhrman.

The fabulist “tiny incident” is nothing compared to that ‘decrepit intellectual’ Kristol.

The war is the ‘n’ word.

The reason why TNR is delaying is because they haven’t quite figured out how to sex up the story.

Everybody does it wont cut it.

Earth to TNR – Its not the lying, so much as the cover up that really buries you in the end.

Also see battered wife syndrome.

It could get worse before it gets better.

This is all part of TNR as “victim”.

The question that TNR will try to obscure .. who is the victimizer ?

Of course, it is the fabulist, Mr. Beauchamp.

True, but I guess I still feel empathy for them (TNR and the rest), as they’re going through some tough times. They know they’re history and are extremely frustrated as they also understand they have no way out of the abyss of their own making.

I speak of management, primarily, as most of the reporters have to know what has to be done (admit it in public or not), but are powerless to take the steps needed, so draw down an ultimately dwindling paycheck in the interim.

They’ll (the reporters again) get out and eventually prosper in the future; the “Politico” is an early example of where they’ll go, though that experiment is not a foregone success at this early date.

Read TNR’s accounting. It is as I predicted: honorable and, except for one small inaccuracy, it checks out. All the aspects aggressively challenged by the usual propaganda organs have been verified and corroborated. The military is now conducting its own investigation. Given the record of such formal investigations, I’m not as confident in the Pentagon as I am in TNR. Can we now expect apologies from the people who smeared and maligned the magazine and its soldier-reporter? I doubt it. The attackers are not the kind to acknowledge their own errors.

or this

Well, I trawled through the various knuckle-dragging websites and there’s still no actual, you know, evidence that he fabricated anything.

or this

Again, it is fascinating that this tiny incident, in which a soldier’s account of his time in the Iraq war has been disputed by his superiors, and in which we have not yet heard the final word, is of such immense importance to the pro-Bush right.

This case has struck a lot of nerves. Of course, excitable Andrew has long since found another crowd to butter his bread. Where’s the concern about the soldier being married to the TNR fact checker? Only in America can someone like Andrew make a buck writing. Some folks have a lot of nerve suggesting W has lost touch.

I say, why? I feel just as sorry for TNR as I do for the suicide bomber that has a premature detonation.

Malicious propagandizing is hardly worthy of sympathy.