THE CLAIM THAT “WARBLOGGERS” IDOLIZE OLIVER NORTH has been checked into and, unsurprisingly, turns out to be false. North, after all, was an inept grandstander who sold weapons to America’s enemies. Such qualities tend not to do well in the Blogosphere.

UPDATE: Reader David Walser emails this correction:

“North, after all, was an inept grandstander who sold weapons to America’s enemies.” I disagree. North was very good at grandstanding. He did it so well he made the professional grandstanders questioning him look like rank amateurs.

Heh. Point taken. Though just to be clear, it wasn’t the grandstanding that I was calling inept.