All The News That Fits the Kerry Campaign

This morning's New York Times had a breathless expose', big print and over the fold announcing that 380 tons of high explosives had gone missing from an Iraqi ammunition dump. This poorly disguised attempt at an October surprise was immediately picked up by Kerry and the Boy Wonder at their campaign stops today, not to mention most of the mainstream media.

Oops.

Except NBC which proceeded to completely dismantle the story (hat tip Kerry Spot). NBC had a crew embedded with the troops who secured that facility on April 10, 2003 (the day after the Iraqi liberation, and according to NBC News, the explosives were already gone by the time our troops got there.

How will the Times react to this news? My guess is they'll try to ignore it and keep on running the story, or variations on it, through the end of the week. If they had any integrity at all they would immediately run a correction, but I'll be very old before that happens. The Times is totally in the tank for Kerry, and you can expect one negative Bush story after the other until election day.