People keep e-mailing me (in the last hour or so) about this piece from the NYSun titled “Bush’s Iran Plan Echoes Kerry, Baffles Friends.” NRO WILL NEVER CRITICIZE THE WHITE HOUSE POLICY ON IRAN, the e-mails say. We’re such hacks here, after all, parrots of the White House.

Yeah, right. It hasn’t been anyone on NRO who has been writing “faster, please” since 9/11, who has been criticizing White House policy on Iran for even longer. No, no. Must have been somewhere else. All we ever do here is praise President Bush. (Boy would that be news to our friends in the White House!) That’s how, for example, The Corner managed to be quoted after the first presidential debate in a Dem press release the night of/morning after, back in the fall of 2004.