We have here a pretty nice illustration of the iron triangle of right-wing sludge slopping. Queued up by the Moonie press, fed by congressional Republicans and orchestrated by Bush administration officials and then spread far and wide by the gelded mainstream press.
The sad thing is that this nothing new, but most people on our side - the politicians and their people especially - are unable to comprehend how this works. Peter Daou has explained it repeatedly.