Billmon: True Lies

I finally got around to reading Michael Kinsley's feeble attempt to dismiss the Downing Street Memo as a conspiracy theory pushed by the loony left -- i.e. by liberals who aren't domesticated enough to be proper corporate lap dogs. Not a charge anyone is likely to make against Kinsley.

At this late date I won't bother repeating or deflating Kinsley's points, except to note the complete contradiction between this passage:

Developing a paranoid theory and promoting it to the very edge of national respectability takes a certain amount of ideological self-confidence.

And this one:

You don't need a secret memo to know [the intelligence was being fixed.] Just look at what was in the newspapers on July 23, 2002, and the day before.