I’ve never heard of Alexander Zaitchik but I am a fan of the New York Press, even if I don’t get to read it that often. Which is why I think it’s too bad they’re running pieces like this Zaitchik guy’s. He runs a long extended quote from my syndicated column on Thanksgiving in which I wrote that I often receive “wonderful, uplifting, heart-wrenching e-mails from Marines and soldiers or their families with similar stories of Iraqis’ expressing their gratitude and relief that the Americans are doing the hard work of democracy and decency” and that I often see similar stories of American courage and decency on obscure websites.

And then he says “I wish I knew what ‘obscure Internet sites’ people like Goldberg get their wonderful, uplifting news from. Online these days, I keep running into reports of U.S. artillery slamming into hospitals and U.S. snipers targeting children. Officials claim these reports are insurgency propaganda, and some of it probably is.”

Maybe Zaitchik has the answer to his own question. Maybe he’s the kind of guy who seeks out the sort of stuff that has a very high probability of being enemy propaganda because that’s the sort of news he really wants to hear? Or, maybe not. But his column certainly gives off that impression.