May 18, 2005

Norman Mailer's got a hunch

Rathergate and now the Newsweek affair. Two disastrous cases of misinformation from sources assumed to be credible.

Misinformation, or counter-intelligence? Norman Mailer probes the question on the Huffington Post:
At the age of eighty-two I do not wish to revive old paranoia, but Lenin did leave us one valuable notion, one, at any rate. It was "Whom?" When you cannot understand a curious matter, ask yourself, "Whom? Whom does this benefit?" Dare I suggest that our Right has just gained a good deal by way of this matter?

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