A complete puff piece, maybe because the refs have been so thoroughly worked by the likes of Limbaugh that to do anything else would be to betray that famous “liberal bias” that you read so much about, but rarely actually see.

Still, gotta love this:

At dinner the night before, Bill O’Reilly’s name came up, and Limbaugh expressed his opinion of the Fox cable king. He hadn’t been sure at the time that he wanted it on the record. But on second thought, “somebody’s got to say it,” he told me. “The man is Ted Baxter.”

This may be the one thing on which Rush Limbaugh and Keith Olbermann are in complete agreement.

… adding, how can you write a feature piece about Limbaugh without even mentioning the possible connection between his drug abuse and his loss of hearing? I mean, the radio host goes deaf, plausibly due to his own weaknesses — the sort of weaknesses he has built an empire out of excoriating in others — and it’s politely overlooked…?

That’s what I mean by puff piece. Whole article is full of omissions like that.

As Pogo used to say, we have met the enemy:

WASHINGTON — The military trainers who came to Guantánamo Bay in December 2002 based an entire interrogation class on a chart showing the effects of “coercive management techniques” for possible use on prisoners, including “sleep deprivation,” “prolonged constraint,” and “exposure.”

What the trainers did not say, and may not have known, was that their chart had been copied verbatim from a 1957 Air Force study of Chinese Communist techniques used during the Korean War to obtain confessions, many of them false, from American prisoners.

The recycled chart is the latest and most vivid evidence of the way Communist interrogation methods that the United States long described as torture became the basis for interrogations both by the military at the base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and by the Central Intelligence Agency.

The rest.

When you live in New York, you have a different relationship with trash on the street than in most other places. Since no one has any storage space, you literally never know what’s going to be sitting out on the sidewalk. My friend Tony Ortega recently stumbled across Harvey Weinstein’s recycling, and recounts the tale here.