One of the World Wide Web's most distinguished organs of fake news, the Borowitz Report, leads its current issue with this flash:
The liberal blogosphere was aflame today with new accusations that Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill) is trying to win the 2008 presidential election.
Except that sometimes it's hard to tell fake from real.
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A commendably pointless attempt by the New Yorker to blend merit-based analysis of Barack Obama's campaign with the flip-flop-obsessed perspective of cable news. There's not a lot of new information presented here, but the assessment is refreshing. The apparent goal is to break the intellectual laziness that categorizes a public statement or policy change as a flip-flop when the reality is more complex. That said, the New Yorker could have come down harder on Obama's more substantial reversals and contradictions.
