AT A RECENT PARTY celebrating the expanded, paperback release of David Corn’s The Lies of George W. Bush, (“Updated with new lies!”) Corn quoted the party’s “quasi-conservative” sponsor. “I’m not endorsing the book per-se,” he said. “I’m just supporting your right to say it.” Someone from the crowd shouted, “In the second Bush administration you’ll lose that!” The group chuckled and nodded their heads knowingly over their sweating glasses of white wine.

We’ve already said our piece about Corn’s book and its brothers-in-arms, but what about those voices from the crowd? Who are the thousands of silent mosquitoes drawn to the light of Corn’s anti-Bush bug zapper, or to Michael Moore’s flame?