Go Poddy!

Nick Berg's father Michael is a more powerful fellow than I first thought. In fact, if the war ends badly for Bush, you can blame Michael. And/or the New York Times.

Or so says John Podheretz, writing in Murdoch's propaganda organ, the New York Post. As Josh Marshall points out, the neocons are already trotting out a prototype version of the "back stab" theory to explain why the war was lost. Podheretz claims that the New York Times blamed America, not terrorists, for the murder of Nick Berg, with a demoralizing effect that could well undermine the war effort.

Of course, the Times said no so such thing; they merely reported Michael Berg's statement that his son died because of a Bush mistake. Poddy's quotation abuse is positively Coulter-esque.