In the mind of Juan Cole, that is:
The story of the interlibrary loan request for Mao’s Little Red Book that produced an interview by the Department of Homeland Security turns out to be a hoax. However, it is one of those hoaxes that bespeaks a reality, which is that the level of unwarranted (a pun!) surveillance of Americans and violation of their fourth amendment rights under the Bush administration has skyrocketed to new levels of criminality.
Even when you’re wrong, you’re right.
It’s in the best traditions of the Dan Rather style of reporting, fact but accurate.
Excuse…............me “fake but accurate”.
Hmmmm… It’s true because it’s false. It bespeaks a reality just like the Reagan Administration was totally indicted by Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible.” It’s like Mapesgate… even if it wasn’t true, it’s too good to be false.
Yikes.
Do they ever bother to research their stories before they publish or is “bespeaking reality†going to continue to be the norm? Are any of these liberal chicken littles looking at the same constitution I’m look at? The 4th amendment specifies “unreasonable” for a reason. If a person’s phone number turns up in Bin Laden’s roladex, it’s imminently reasonable to investigate that person with or without a warrant, especially during wartime. Also, the MSMs duplicity in regards to “Plamegate” and the current crop of leakers is, if anything, even more appalling than their selective reporting. I keep hearing a distant echo of my grandfather saying “a lie can run around the world before the truth gets out of bedâ€. Here’s hoping the truth buys an alarm clock and some new running shoes.
[...] Of course, the Loony Left is already fawning over this “scoop” of theirs, and we suppose that it can’t be long until they note that they were “a bit ahead of the news cycle”, that the story is “fake but accurate” and Juan Cole tells us all that this is “one of those hoaxes that bespeaks a reality.” [...]