Bob Somerby already has a couple of paragraphs up on the Kerry-medals-vs.-ribbons shocker. Here's what he has to say in today's Daily Howler (at this writing, the date has a typo that says Thursday, but it's the April 26 entry):
Jim Rutenberg is also concerned about Kerry’s decades-old statements. In this morning's Times, the deeply worried Times reporter travels back some 33 years to puzzle and parse an old statement. By contrast, Rutenberg gives minor space to things said yesterday, on the stump. In fairness, we really should give the scribe credit where due; this time, he stopped his outright lying (see THE DAILY HOWLER 4/15/04). He didn’t say that “Democrats and Republicans alike” are disturbed by the things Kerry said.
Last Friday, a college student asked us what they should watch for in the press. If there’s one thing to watch for, we replied, you have to look out for the focus on trivia. Scribes will misdirect you to ancient trivia, we said. This morning, a deeply worried Times reporter shows that bright kid what we meant.
But Somerby's entry today deals at much more length with "clowning" by David Broder, the universally acknowledged "dean" of the Big Pundits.
He also starts a multi-part look at Bob Woodward's latest book, Plan of Attack. The first entry is called "See Bob Fake (Pt. 1)".
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