"This is John Podhoretz' finest essay..."
Without a doubt. My thoughts exactly, as I came here to post it and found it on the search.
Quid, you always post the good stuff!
Podhoretz is always good the this is one of his best. I watched a movie, "Shattered Glass" on Direct TV the other night. It was about New Republic, and what happened there sometime in the late '90's It is the CBS story all over the place and what happened when obvious stories printed for truth, were totally false. The main guy was a new reporter, not one like Rather and how his stories, brillently written, and not factual, finally took them all out. Excellent in this time of lies and cheating.