Speaking of the Standard

Speaking of the Standard, Matthew Continetti's profile of Newt Gingrich begins thusly, here:

It's February 28, 2007, in the poorly lit, dank, crowded basement, aka the "Great Hall," of Cooper Union college in Manhattan, and Newt Gingrich is talking to a sophisticated, well-attired, seen-it-all New York audience. As he speaks, the tempo of his words increases, until he begins to sound as though he is rapping: "We spent hours last week on a left-wing billionaire" -- David Geffen -- "getting unhappy because his former friends" -- the Clintons -- "didn't do what he thought they would do when he bribed them," he says, "because he's really unhappy about being lied to because he thought surely they would actually do what he wanted when he bribed them. . . ."

The issue of whether journalists should correct politicians when they lie is one that interests me but not many other people (save my sponsors). Of course in the MSM, politicians and others are invited to lie with impunity. I would think that in opinion magazines, it would be considered kosher, but it rarely happens to one's ideological allies.

Read the whole Altercation here.