SPINSANITY ON THE TERMINALLY DISHONEST ROBERT SCHEER:

In his column last week, Los Angeles Times columnist Robert Scheer, who created the myth that the Bush administration gave $43 million to the Taliban after misreading a New York Times story, spreads two more falsehoods now working their way through the media.

That’s my boy. Spinsanity concludes:

It is unacceptable for a major national columnist to repeatedly make factually inaccurate claims. Yet Robert Scheer continues to create and disseminate falsehoods by basing his columns on incomplete or untrue reports when accurate information is available. He needs to stop.

Or perhaps the Los Angeles Times should stop him. The much-vaunted superiority of Genuine Newspaper Columnists over amateur blogosphere pundits, after all, is supposed to be that they have editors.

So where are Scheer’s?

UPDATE: Blog Irish says that Scheer didn’t make up the Taliban story, but just parroted it after it was made up by an Irish journalist.