Yesterday I delivered up some of that hideous crap that Maureen can dish from time to time. It’s so dispiriting to see Dowd use her national platform to propagate mindless, banal DC-heather claptrap, and it’s fun to deride her with a healthy dose of snark.

But in the interest of fair and balanced coverage of the Gray Lady’s Op-Ed page, I give you 25 words from Nicolas Kristof (subscription only) today:

Do I really have the right to complain about torture or extra-legal detentions in China when we Americans do the same in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba?  Read more 

I’m sure you’ve probably heard all about the recent back and forth between various organs of the SCLM about Obama and his early education. Short verision: a website published a claim that he was educated in extremist madrassas when young, and that he is a kind of ’stealth-Muslim’ now as he runs for the highest office. These claims were picked up by FOX, and later complicated by other claims that even though the story was false, it originated from the campaign office of Hillary. Smears within smears, if you will.

The smearing continues, but not perhaps as you may think. Let’s take a walk down Highbrow Smearing Lane, shall we? (I’m leaving out the livelinks which you can find in the original article)

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 — Jeffrey T. Kuhner, whose Web site published the first anonymous smear of the 2008 presidential race, is hardly the only editor who will not reveal his reporters’ sources. What sets him apart is that he will not even disclose the names of his reporters.

web site + anon smear + won’t disclose = blogs are not real reporting, don’t trust them.  Read more