Dick Cheney calls out the New York Times. NYT makes small, whimpering noises in reply. It may be that there's no bottom to the lickspittle cowardice of the Times' political desk, but today's display certainly represents a nadir, for the time being at least.

In the Bush Administration's mad, up-is-down effort to spin yesterday's statement by the 9/11 commission that decisively slapped down its nearly three-year-long PR effort to link Saddam Hussein with Al Qaeda, Dick "Dick" Cheney attacked those evil libruls at the NY Times for their coverage of the hoo-ha. Today, the Times reports the flap—an unusual move for a paper whose sense of decorum generally dictates against this kind of self-mention—and on A1, no less.

You may think that the Times is making this move in order to defend itself and critique Cheney's (utterly meritless) position. You are, of course, wrong. The full, sad story is here ...

posted by michael  6:00:39 PM  
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