Top three stories in today’s online New York Times:

Why would Biden’s protective White House aides worry that even his small mistakes would be exploited and endlessly repeated in a right wing and corporate media echo chamber?  Do you read your own headlines, Grey Lady?

I guess the partisan Robert Hur did his job as well as NY Times star reporter Judith Miller did her job back in 2001 for Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld and all the other administration talking heads who cited the NY Times for the quote they fed to her “don’t let the smoking gun be a mushroom cloud”  to insinuate that Saddam Hussein was on the verge of having nuclear weapons, to justify the illegal invasion of iraq after 9/11.

As for Judith Miller, her Wikipedia entry begins:

Judith Miller (born January 2, 1948)^[1] is an American journalist and commentator who covered Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) program both before and after the 2003 invasion, which was later discovered to have been based on inaccurate information from the intelligence community.^[2][3] She worked in The New York Times‘ Washington bureau before joining Fox News in 2008.

It makes perfect sense that she wound up at Fox, but the larger question is — what the fuck New York Times?

Jen Rubin says it better than I do: