Lots of email making this point:

Jonah,
Regarding your post on the Woodward and Clarke books:
Your premise is both logical and factual: the two books should be accepted
by the left and leftish media as a refutation of the Bush as puppet – Bush
as liar crowd. You seem to miss the more salient point – one which you have
written about extensively: there is no logic to the left or leftish media.
The claims get reported as fact and when refuted, they do not correct, they
simply move on to the next one.