It’s pretty amazing how fast the news cycle is now, thanks to bloggers. Now, of course John Dvorak may think we’re a venomous nation of spiteful, hateful retarded idiots that have ruined the Internet According To Dvorak, but then again, you know how jealous media autocrats can be. Just ask Dan Rather.

I have been following quite closely the coverage on the missing explosives report that the NYT (thankfully, as I have noted before) and if there is a plot thicker than this, it sure would be rendered incomprihensible even by snooty collegiate indie film standards.

Here’s what I’ve gathered so far. Brace yourselves, y’all. The NYT decides to run this article in the name of, well, whatever’s name it is the NYT worships. It sure isn’t the truth, I can tell you that much. Only, they beat CBS to it, because CBS wanted to hold its cards face down so that there wouldn’t be time for us vile and spiteful pajama-wearing anklebiters to counter the accusation that may very well have affected the election in their favor. Then, NBC news’ embedded reporter claims that he was with the 101ID and that they did an inspection. So the shit shifted towards the 3ID, which by this time Richard Holbrooke, on FOX News today, shifted the shit about how the 3ID didn’t do enough of the inspection, and decides to lay it on Bush. Because as we all know from John Kerry’s campaign speech (seen on TV this afternoon) it doesn’t really matter when these explosives disappeared, what matters is that the Bush administration failed to ensure their being secured.

So if a tree falls in a forest and Bush is not there to catch it, does that mean that he is an enemy of the environment?

Moving on. Wretchard of course tries to put some perspective by describing what could be War Plan Orange by Saddam Hussein. Very smart analysis, but you know how the true cynics are. Since Wretchard’s write-up really can’t bring much in the way of postulated facts, it’s worthless to the true cynics. Not that postulates would actually work on these folks, mind you. If a Republican bonks them on the head with a dead fish they wouldn’t believe the fish was dead nor that it was a fish at all. As long as the Republican is doing the bonking. Maybe that’s why when unhinged liberals shoot people they don’t like they will claim that they’re only throwing pies and missed the difference somewhere along the way. Or maybe they’ll just run people over. Or perform ideological genocide. But I digress. John Cole also tries to place some perspective, not that it would matter to folks who believe in the Kerry camp who would say something like “it’s still 380 tons! When is 380 tons not 380 tons?” No one said it isn’t 380 tons despite it being a fraction of one percent of the explosives we have detonated or captured and slated for detonation.

So after what we on the Right have been throwing at these folks for who cognitive dissonance is more the rule than is the exception, more news has come out that CBS may really have gotten away with the second worst fraud in their illustrious career if not for the New York Times. The contemporaneous report from their own reporter contradicts the accusation of Richard Holbrooke that the 3ID didn’t do its job well. That in itself is so much fun to consider. I love to gloat.

Now there’s news that the Russians may have helped Saddam Hussein clear out the Al Kaka weapons depot so that there would be no proof of their illegal deals with Hussein. That and the IAEA chief inspector, by some name I cannot spell while on six beers, willfully ignored Saddam’s Al Kaka weapons reserve because the Butcher Of Baghdad said that he wasn’t going to use them to build nuclear weapons. You know, because with all those explosives in play, he can actually perform the ethnic cleansing of the Shia and still have enough left over to make enough money on the black market to fund his government a couple more decades. Besides, with that IAEA guy around, and the Russians too, he can always come back for more. Right? Right?

And you know what any die-hard liberal would say to all this? That Bush, and all his apologists, are making excuses.

Now here’s where the really juicy schadenfreude part comes in. The NYT has, in their attempt to release their hit piece on Bush ahead of —driven by the capitalistic greed that they of course they’ll deny they have in their darkest of hearts—revealed their cards before the betting has been done. Now this information is blowing back into Kerry’s face and it’s really given me the impression that the Senator gets his intel info from the news. But even worse than that, those explosives… are they not proof that Saddam wanted to develop atomic weapons? Are those explosives not illegal under the terms of his disarmament, under which even one violation was enough reason for us to march in and disarm him ourselves?

All because, as the NYT’s excuse makers are saying, “the story they had been jointly pursuing on missing Iraqi ammunition was starting to leak on the Internet.” So. Left-wing shills were going to break the story before the NYt did and they wanted their money and they wanted Bush gone so they released the story at a time when damage control could have been done, and now, well, as far as backfires go, this one is sweet.

Welcome to the internet, NYT and CBS. It’s been so much fun hanging around with y’all.