Fox News anchor Brit Hume just reported on the hard-left leanings of the anti-war group Iraq Body Count, whose report on civilian casualties has gotten a lot of coverage from news outlets that seem totally uninterested in the groups ideological leanings. Hume reported that the group’s reliance on dubious news sources, connections to hard-left outfits and questionable methods might, I don’t know, imply that news organizations should treat its conclusions with a little skepticism. But as this blog has pointed out, many in the MSM have reported the group’s findings as though they were facts.

Forget about rare ivory-billed woodpeckers. The much rarer species is a journalist willing to apply equal skepticism to the U.S. and its critics. Hat’s off to Brit Hume.