Will The US Media Ever Stop Being Utterly Supine Stenographers For Right-Wing Bullcrap Artists?

There was hope earlier this week that they might.  But as a couple of Digby’s latest posts (here and here) on the credibility-challenged Joshua Sparling’s latest efforts to start a bogus scandal show, they are all too ready to fall back into bad habits.

There’s also evidence — in the form of yet another questionable (and already-debunked) spitting story, this one an alleged Vietnam-era reminiscence — that the nutcase right is making a concerted effort to retool the spitting myth and apply it to Iraq war protesters.