STEVEN DEN BESTE has more thoughts on the Glenn Kessler story from the Washington Post that I mentioned here earlier:

They say, “Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity,” but we seem to have gone beyond any possible stupidity now.

Indeed. Follow the link for a point-by-point analysis. Meanwhile David Adesnik of OxBlog observes: “If the NYT ran this article, I wouldn’t have bothered post[ing] anything. It’s what you expect from them. But the WaPo? I expect better.” That’s got to hurt.