Zernike also writes today: "For Republicans and the White House, Mr. Kerry's 'botched joke' Monday was manna from Massachusetts, that reliable redoubt of liberal caricatures..."
The Times finds its latest Republican-majority killing silver bullet and twice conflates two sets of emails to make House Majority Leader Hastert look bad.
Three times, the N.S.A.'s spying on international communications of suspected terrorists is called "domestic eavesdropping," as if they were monitoring all of our phone calls.
