Radley Balko:

The lefty blogs are again jumping all over John Tierney. Actually, not really. They're jumping all over an incarnation of John Tierney they've created that allows them to dismiss him without really considering what he's written.

This is news? That description fits what the left and the media have done for the past 6 years. From arguing that Bush shouldn't have gone to court, after Gore went judge shopping to get an order for recounting and divining the real intent of voters who had ruined their ballots, to denying their own responsibility in North Korea's development of nuclear weapons. the left's only argument tactic is to put words in the mouths of their opponents and then criticize them for saying them.