Old news to those paying close attention.

TNR is apparently still trying to pass off what they're doing as journalism. Rather than provide names and sources for their rigorous, extensive fact-checking crusade that can be cross-checked by other outlets like CJR, the NYT, the WaPo, etc. (not exactly spokes in the right wing noise machine, as it were), TNR has decided that people asking for verification of its "facts" have "ideological agendas" and that those questions don't deserve answers. That, and it's now the Army's fault.

Riiiight. It's everybody else's fault that TNR hired an aspiring anti-war writer who was hitched to one of its own researchers to get "the story" out, and when "the story" was held up to even the most rudimentary scrutiny, "the story" began to crumble like a sandcastle in the surf. Basic facts, like the differences between FOB's in Iraq and staging areas in Kuwait were lost in the fog of Beauchamp's overactive imagination, and TNR stood by it the whole time. When forced to admit their mistakes, TNR opted to double down and call everyone else a liar and an "ideologue."

Memo to TNR: The reporter at Forbes who started raising questions about Stephen Glass was, according to TNR's new standard, TNR's ideological opponent. A writer for a magazine who's audience was business leaders and "the rich" - the exactly kind of person that TNR and their leftwing socialist culture despise. That didn't make him wrong, did it? TNR, in its rush to believe what it wanted to be true, stopped fact-checking themselves, and it turned out that that "ideological opponent" was dead-on 100% right. TNR knew it then, and it isn't a stretch to assume that Franklin Foer and company know it now.

Bob Owens actually contacted one of TNR's own cited sooper seerkit "experts" who then refuted TNR's own statements, and yet TNR refuses to concede that it's over.

TNR arch-nemesis Michael Goldfarb augments Owen's catch. The ball goes back to TNR, and TNR simply throws it into the stands. Penalty.

Proverbial TNR bugaboo Ace puts it quite simple. "Stop lying."

Charles Krauthammer has a devastating piece that ran in the WaPo on the entire sordid charade going on at TNR.

Jules Crittenden puts the boot in the other mouth.

LGF, in light of TNR's latest dodge, yawns.

Powerline extrapolates the scandal out to the publishing industry in general. Oprah even gets a nod! The world is ending.

And no, this does not mean that Iraq has returned to the kite-flying human-rights-upholding, ultra-stable, stately pleasure dome paradise it was under Saddam Hussein. Nobody ever once asserted such a notion. It simply signals that ideologues who don't like the war are willing to lie about it and to attempt to spread those lies with little regard for facts or for larger truths. Unless they're the "correct" truths.

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