Mr. Kimball & Whistle_Blower,

Very interesting posts both.

On the morning after the election, I was listening to the BBC on the radio (sad…yes, I am *that* much the masochist) .

For the very first time since the start of the war – the BBC focuses exclusively on the most horrifying aspect possible – the BBC was suddenly effusive (and I mean bizarrely giddy) about how wonderfully things are going in Iraq.

I wondered, “what happened to the BAD news?”

Answer: the coronation happened. See? Miraculous change was in the air already.

Such blatantly partisan reporting is the kind of thing normally confined to fascist regimes. Naturally, Mr. Kimball’s piece prefacing the “Dictatorship of Relativism” series in The New Criterion came to mind.