How could they be so stupid?

It's not a good day to be the MSM. Michelle Malkin went to Iraq and returns with more evidence that the AP has been had by local informants. Why would a major media business risk its prime asset, its credibility on such flimsy evidence?

Amir Taheri provides another example and of in which a translator misstated the reason a demonstration was underway, and asserts that:

Iraq's new political life is either ignored or dismissed as irrelevant. The creation of political parties (some emerging from decades of clandestine life), the work of Iraq's parliament, the fact that it is almost the only Arab country where people are free to discuss politics to their hearts' content - these are of no interest to those determined to see Iraq as a disaster, as proof that toppling Saddam was a modern version of the original sin.

Ouch!