I hadn't really noticed him until a few months ago when I read a piece by him in my local paper claiming that Ahmadinejad had been mistranslated in his remarks threatening/encouraging/celebrating the destruction of Israel.
It was a stunning report given that Ahmad was being quoted EVERYwhere as having made these extremely bellicose remarks, virtually a casus belli, IMO.
Sometimes even our side runs off halfcocked on the basis of bad reporting so I thought it very important to check this out.
I sent a ltr to the editor asking them to do some reporting. They had published an op-ed style piece from a regular contributor (Dyer), identifying him as an authority. Either he was wrong or virtually everything else the paper had published on the topic was wrong. As this was potentially a matter of war and peace, I urged them to tell us what is the truth. Of course, they ignored me. They like to liven up their editorial pages with incendiary crap, but they don't feel obligated to clarify what is false and what is true as a simple matter of fact (although if I, as a conservative, submitted something to them with an important misstatement of fact or with a lie, they would be all over it).
I paid lots of attention thereafter to Ahmad's rhetoric: He repeatedly made the same kind of bellicose statements. Nobody, NOBODY but Dyer -- not the BBC, not Reuters, not AFP, not the Slimes, NOBODY -- every claimed in the MSM that Ahmad's remarks were less than the existential threat to Israel that they had been widely reported to be.
I nominate Dyer for the first Walter Duranty award for his extraordinary lying in support of the forces of evil at a time when war and peace hangs in the balance.
(I am neither Jewish, nor a neocon, nor a person inclined to put the security interests of Israel ahead of those of the USA, although, happily, they often coincide. I am interested in the truth and in finding and punishing -- killing, actually -- the real evil-doers.)
Dyer is like millions of other common-sense deficient libs who hate conservatives so much they will never admit it when they're wrong. They're so obtuse and outright stupid at times they'll side with people, like Ahmanutjob, who would gladly hang them for their views.
And the ironic thing is people like Dyer only breathe free because of people like Bush and Blair who protect him from the real baddies. Dyer is obviously too wrapped up in himself to see it.