Sen. Tom Harking seen attacking Dick Cheney’s patriotism? Walter Cronkite chiding the blogosphere for not checking sources? You’d think a transporter malfunction had thrown us into a Star Trek mirror universe where Spock has a goatee and Sulu is a would-be assassin.

Harking has his own trouble, having flown combat missions over Vietnam… or not. Doesn’t anyone in the mainstream media remember? (Via Instapundit)

Meanwhile, Virginia Postrel asks campaign journalists to do their jobs.

America… what a country!