“She looked at a newspaper and saw Michael Jackson and Martha Stewart. How could they dare put something like this in while there are dead soldiers coming in on planes? There were three dead women killed in Iraq and brought through Dover. They went unmentioned. This made her furious.”
Today’s Jimmy Breslin column in Newsday.
Meanwhile, Jonathan S. Landay, Warren P. Strobel and John Walcott publish this story, also available at SmirkingChimp.com, about continued funding for the Information Collection Program of the Iraqi National Congress, even though the group has consistently provided false Iraqi intelligence.

Reported everywhere, but if you’re looking for the official results of the Mustel Group poll on the provincial Liberals’ declining popularity, look here.
Vancouver Sun columnist Paul Willcocks offers his analysis of the drop in support for the Liberals here, suggesting a prescription for turnaround.

The Drudge Retort reports that Matt Drudge has lost a long-time advertiser in the wake of last week’s groundless report alleging that U.S. Senator John Kerry had an extramarital affair with a 27-year-old woman. AT&T Wireless has pulled all advertising from the Drudge Report in response to a complaint about its sponsorship of the site.
Meanwhile, the San Francisco Chronicle reports this story on a doctored image of Senator Kerry, a photo which places him attending a 1971 anti-war rally, appearing alongside actress Jane Fonda.
Needless to say, the photo of Kerry has been doctored.
The right would appear to be willing to go to any ends, it would seem, to see to it that George W. Bush is elected to a second term as President.