Pots, Kettles and Blackness

I know it's The Nation and picking them apart is fish in a barrel easy, but it never ceases to be fun. Check this out:

Before the Iraq war, rightwing (and middle-of-the-road) pundits claimed Saddam Hussein was a dire WMD threat, that he was in cahoots with al Qaeda, that the war was necessary. The neoconservative cheerleaders for war also argued that an invasion of Iraq would bring democracy to that nation and throughout the region. they were wrong. But they have paid no price for their errors. They did not have to serve in Iraq. None, as far as I can tell, have had sons or daughters harmed or killed in the fighting there. They did not have to bear higher taxes, because George W. Bush has charged the costs of this military enterprise to the national credit card. Though they miscalled the number-one issue of the post-9/11 period, they did not lose their influential perches in the commentariat. Charles Krauthammer, Richard Perle, Robert Kagan, Gary Schmitt, Danielle Pletka and others (including non-neocon Thomas Friedman) who blew it on Iraq still regularly appear on op-ed pages and television news shows, pitching their latest notions about Iraq, Iran or other matters.

I'll let the comment about none having lost children in the war slide because it is so ridiculous as to be laughable. What I can't let slide is the the comment "(t)hough they miscalled the number-one issue of the post-9/11 period, they did not lose their influential perches in the commentariat." Let's parse that for a second; is David Corn actually saying that if a story is wrong or you back a policy and it turns out to be wrong then you should be fired?

Let's start with this guy at the NY Times then work our way to the entire LA Times and if we're haven't had enough fun, we'll continue with the AP. All those are from the last few days.

Nice try Dave, but you can't have it both ways.