The irrepressible New York Times is at it again! First it destroys the credibility of the most trusted newsreader in America, Brian Williams, and leaves him in a heap exposed as a flagrant liar. Now it is destroying the credibility of the most trusted comic in America, Jon Stewart, and intent on leaving him, too, in a heap exposed as a flagrant liar.

All poor Stewart ever did was to sally forth into the realm of irony, saying on Twitter and Facebook that “Finally, someone is being held to account for misleading America about the Iraq War.” He was, as fate would have it, joking about his erstwhile collaborator in comedy, Williams. Then, whammo, the Times publishes its heavily documented piece divulging how the CIA and the American army, after vanquishing Saddam Hussein’s forces, undertook a very effective program, Operation Avarice, for “acquiring and destroying at least 400 Borak rockets, one of the internationally condemned chemical weapons that Saddam Hussein’s Baathist government manufactured in the 1980s …”