MY FIRST AND LAST JAYSON BLAIR ENTRY

The Onion's infograph this week is on the various misdeeds of NY Times reporter Jayson Blair. When I read

"Wrote fabricated story about Iraq possessing massive stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction"

I nearly fell off my swivel chair.

But it does raise an interesting point. The administration needs cover for its lies about WMD in Iraq, and thus its inability to find any of them in said country. So what perfect timing it was to discover A) a lying reporter B) a lying reporter for those commies at the New York Times!, and C) a lying black reporter*, allowing conservative commenators and pundits around the country to spread the subtext that A) blacks cannot be trusted, and just as important, B) this is why affirmative action is bad. Of all of those points, only the first -- that he was a lying reporter -- has any meaning or relevance at all. White people lie too; of course, their lies are more in the neighborhood of "Don't worry, Native Americans, these blankets will keep you warm and healthy!", etc. For more recent, pertinent lies, in this case from the NY Times, there's always Jeff "Whitewater" Gerth.

* - I'm masochistic so I read Drudge from time to time, and his big banner headline called the Blair story a "Black Eye" for the NYT. Classy.