NPR aired an interview this morning with Doug Feith, which includes an interview with one of his students at Georgetown University and clips from the ever-reliable news source the Colbert Show. You can hear the interview here. The clip from the Colbert Show has the host quoting from an article in the Washington Post accusing Feith of “manipulating” intelligence based on the conclusions of a report by the Pentagon’s inspector general. Of course, the report said nothing of the kind, and the Post later published an explanation/correction by the paper’s ombudsman under the title “How a Page 1 Mistake Was Made.” One would think that the authors of an article alleging the manipulation of intelligence would take care to avoid any such manipulations in their own work, and that NPR wouldn’t rely on the Colbert Report for much of anything, but, of course, one would be wrong.
