Yesterday, the Associated Press dropped what’s known in journalism parlance as a “thumbsucker” on the Norway shootings. It’s a piece that’s awfully heavy on analysis and short on the necessary facts to justify said thumbsucking. THE WEEKLY STANDARD makes a cameo here, selectively quoted and used as a cudgel to further the dubious moral equivalency suggested by the headline, “‘Christian terrorist’? Norway case strikes debate“:

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