We’ll end the day as we began it — laughing at the NYT’s willingness to be suckered by anyone with a bone to pick with Bush. Via Craig G., a laugh-out-loud paragraph in E&P’s coverage of the story:

The original article, more than 1000 words in length, was written by Nicholas Confessore. He also wrote the news article about the error today. Without saying that he wrote the first story, he wrote today: “The Times did not verify many aspects of Ms. Fenton’s claims, never interviewed her children, and did not confirm the identity of the man she described as her husband.”

How careless of “the Times.”