Sheer Insanity At The Strib
On Tuesday Robert Scheer wrote a piece for the LA Times which claimed that the US military rescue of Private Lynch was staged, based on a report from the BBC. His column raised a firestorm of criticism particularly since the BBC has pretty much backed away from the original story. Talk radio host Hugh Hewitt has been all over Scheer, the story has been widely covered by InstaPundit, and many noted bloggers including the Shark Blog, James Lileks, and the guys over at Power Line have all written on the subject. You can hardly click on a link in the blogsphere without coming across the Scheer flap. Bill O'Reilly even discussed the matter on The Factor on Wednesday evening.
So today I open up the editorial section of the Minneapolis Star Tribune and see what?
The bleepin' Scheer piece. No mention of the swirling controversy. No addendum that the original BBC story that Scheer based his claptrap on has been discredited. Nothing.
Can the editors possibly be that oblivious? Or do they simply not care? Neither provides much comfort to the unfortunate readers of the Star Tribune.
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