How they lied

Most newspaper libraries I’ve been in stock a current copy of the liberal Nation and, in their minds, to "balance" things out, a current copy of The New Republic, which is mainly liberal but pretends to objectivity. I have never seen current or even outdated copies of National Review, The Weekly Standard, or any other blatantly conservative mag. Don’t want impressionable young reporter minds polluted with contrary ideas, you know. Now the Confederate Yankee blog has figured out one of TNR’s anonymous confirming sources on the Beauchamp fiasco–very surprisingly, a normally very public public relations man for BAE Systems, the maker of the Bradley IFV, named Doug Coffey–and discovered that he was not asked to verify what Beauchamp reported, only some general queries. Now that he knows what the actual issue was, he is calling BS on Beauchamp’s report. Pretty slick TNR. You almost got away with it.