Johann Hari in a revealing piece on Senator John McCain of Arizona in London's Independent January 24 sounded an astute cautionary message advising voters to go beyond thirty second spots and television advertising to learn his real identity:

"If we don't start warning that the Real McCain is not the Real McCoy, we might sleepwalk into four more years of Republicanism."

Hari's warning should be evaluated in the wake of the latest example of New York Times Kool-Aid drinking.  It will be recalled that not that many years ago the journal that states it runs "all the news that's fit to print" got dizzy on Kool-Aid manufactured by noted fraud Ahmed Chalibi, who fed as fact to Time Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Judith Miller.

Miller treated Chalibi's manufactured horror story of Saddam Hussein amassing large quantities of poison gas to unleash on American cities as fact in the Times, which in turn fueled the case being made by Empire proponents of Bush Incorporated to invade Iraq.