Bloggers as sentient entities seeking to verify the BON report were referred to Mayor Mike’s recent Trans-fat fatwa, which asserts that Mike sees all, knows all, and has considered his entire left-liberal constituency brain-dead from Day One. “Get used to it,” reads the BON release. “Like a rotting codfish, Pinch Sulzberger is decaying from the head.”

BAGHDAD – A total of 40 bodies were found, shot dead and most showing signs of torture, in different districts of Baghdad on Tuesday, an Interior Ministry source said.

One sentance, no source other than the mysterious, anonymous “Intereor Ministry Source”. In other words, “Just trust us on this one, okay?”

In any case, this endless waffling over a perfectly obvious propaganda ploy is beside the point. “Police Captain Jamail” does not and never did exist. Associated Press contributors –so-called “correspondents”, stringers, anonymous tipsters– are certifiable, habitual, shameless liars. Their putative Editors are knowingly, wilfully complicit in subverting “news” accounts in furtherance of an extreme left-wing agenda that seeks U.S. defeat and failure at all costs, by any means. As in South Vietnam, Cambodia et.al. this means that Iraq’s nascent democratic polity will have to perish, taking with it literally millions of benighted victims foolish enough to believe America’s assurances.

No disrespect to Barry Caro of Princeton, Class of ‘09, but we recall the Autumn of 1956 when Soviet tanks rolled into Hungary; Harold Macmillan attacked Nasser’s nationalized Suez Canal; Eisenhower rode to re-election without benefit of today’s scurrilous personal attacks, venomous partisan animosities worthy of Paris in 1792. By 2050, Mr. Caro will probably have seen at least one American metropolis vaporized by Iran, North Korea, Venezuela… name a kleptocratic thugocracy, any one will do. Call it Jihad, Revolution, Gringo-phobia, whatever… our question for the Class of 2009 won’t be, why did you not prevent this (we’ve “moved on”, and all that– faugh!), but “Kleine Mann, was nun?”

Hint: Don’t presume to take cues from AP, Reuters, mass-media of any kind. Assuming that even the shell of Western civilization, the Enlightenment, persists, there will come a day of reckoning for sociopathic megalomaniacs, and if (lord help us) Princeton hasn’t prepared Mr. Caro to discriminate, we’ll find a crude, rude and tattoed Biker from Indianapolis who’ll hoist ‘em on his Harley for a spin.

Why falter back on Prospect Street, good Mr. Caro? About 2045, when you turn fifty-eight, the choice will fall to you if it has not already. Of course by then atmospheric evaporation, a cooling process due to ocean warming, may well have buried all the Northern Hemisphere under half-mile sheets of rapidly accumulating ice. Al Gore’s response: “Why didn’t they tell me the Hockey Stick curved into my left nostril?”

Earth to Captain Jamail Hussein, c/o The Associated Press: Drop dead.

That AP is unwilling to name sources implies that the reports they are receiving are “unofficial”. They also neglect to state if those reports have been independently confirmed. So we have official named sources available but they choose to use unconfirmed anonymous sources.

The only conclusion one can reach is that AP is probably including a lot of inaccurate reports and is only striving to confirm them when questioned. At this point I would say that AP reports can not be viewed as accurate or authoritative and in many cases could be invented by the source for economic or propaganda purposes.

Reuters has been refusing to name sources on casualty reports for quite some time.

News outlets are performing in an unprofessional manner with a degree of ethical integrity that brings shame to the entire journalism trade. I believe them like I believe a used car salesman.

I suppose we could make up “truthy” stuff to publish in our blogs too. At this point AP and Reuters ability to influence opinion is greatly diminished and soon to be at the level of Mad Magazine if they keep this up.