The Great One Speaks Norman Mailer wonders if the Newsweek fiasco wasn't a set-up. I do too, a bit. It feels too much like the Dan Rather/Bush memos story, and that always smacked of Karl Rove to me. Plus, the way the White House is jumping on this has a certain pre-planned quality. Talk about crocodile tears!

The question, of course, would be why? It seems farfetched to think that the White House and/or Pentagon would go to such lengths to discredit the media, even at the expense of U.S. standing in the Muslim world. (But then, they wouldn't have known that riots would be the result.....)  ¶ 11:01 PM