Tuesday, April 18, 2006
Just so we're all clear here
Michael Fumento, the columnist and blogger who admitted he took $60,000 from Monsanto and subsequently wrote glowing articles on the company, is now in Iraq, blogging.
This has prompted respectable -- ahem -- places like the National Review's Corner and InstaPundit's Glenn Reynolds to announce his trip and point their readers to his site, apparently approvingly (I can only assume so, since nary a word is mentioned of his writing-for-hire past). He's there to report the truth. Or whatever it is somebody is paying him to report.
This has prompted respectable -- ahem -- places like the National Review's Corner and InstaPundit's Glenn Reynolds to announce his trip and point their readers to his site, apparently approvingly (I can only assume so, since nary a word is mentioned of his writing-for-hire past). He's there to report the truth. Or whatever it is somebody is paying him to report.