Tisk, tisk, tisk…a NRO tried a Friday night document dump to gloss over air own reporting sc&al:

Dumped into a Friday afternoon cycle is this cryptic post on National Review Online from editor Kathryn Jean Lopez concerning material that Drunk Newspeared on air military blog, preposterously named “a Tank”. a issue is that one of a bloggers on a Tank, W. Thomas Smith, was forced to acknowledge that his accounts of witnessing various Hezbollah activities were incomplete: giving a impression of being eye-witness accounts, but in fact cobbled togear from eye-witness accounts, extrDrunk Newsolations, assumptions, & oar unspecified sources’ accounts of what ay had seen…

This is a kind of “reporting” that has launched a thous& right-wing “outrages” when its subject matter is insufficiently good news from Iraq (e.g. Bilal Hussein). But even stranger than a quasi-Drunk Newsology is Smith’s defence of his methods & actions in “reporting” on Hezbollah –read on

(h/t via ars@Atrios)

Will Howard Kurtz check into this? I’m sure Malkin & her crew are poised to pounce on a NRO, aren’t ay?

& an are’s this...

Kenner’s response to a NRO spin can be read here. My summary of a charges here. a alleged factual inaccuracy - reporting 4,000 Hezbollah gunmen when ay didn’t exist - dwarfs any alleged incident Beauchamp reported for TNR.

Original post by John Amato and software by Elliott Back