No one is safe from the wrath of the right. Case in point: Christopher Buckley, the son of The National Review founder, William F. Buckley, was recently forced into resigning off his dad's own mag after he made an Obama endorsement in The Daily Beast.

So where does Buckley turn to after his own nepotism fails him? Why, back to Tina Brown's open arms/blog, of course:

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While The New Yorker defends its Barack Obama cover as satire, which was supposed to point out all the ridiculous right-wing smear tactics aimed at the candidate, critics of the cover have been using one tried and true logic experiment: What would everybody think if some place other than The New Yorker published it?

At last (yes, a full 24 hours later!), a cartoonist has solved the mystery.

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So The New Republic is willing to admit what the Weekly Standard knew along. No, not that trickle down economics works, but that the Baghdad Diarist is not real.

After a long investigation, and an even longer editor’s letter, Franklin Foer says that Baghdad Diarist Scott Thomas Beauchamp is filled with the same stuff as promises from the US Army :

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