John Podhoretz write responds to my self-congratulatory post about Steve Glass with an email headlined “Me Too! Me Too!”:

“I remember telling Tucker Carlson, who was Steve Glass’s dear friend, at the end of 1995, “You tell your friend Glass I know he’s making sh*t up.”
John Podhoretz

Correction: John sends an email to say it was 1997. He found the New York Post story he wrote about it. It begins:

’Reporter Stephen Glass went after the conservative conference attendees in a way intended only to injure – by portraying moralists as not-so-secret degenerates. And that’s the key to understanding Glass’ role as a journalist – and the extraordinary degeneration of the New
Republic in the past 10 years.’
THE journalist Stephen Glass made things up, and people knew it. What’s more, they knew it long before a resourceful Internet reporter blew Glass’s skyrocketing career to bits by making a few phone calls and revealing that a Glass story about a 15-year-old hacker hired by a computer firm was fiction from beginning to end.