Dan: "I was wrong."

Now, even Dan rather admits that there may be some question as to the authenticity of the Guard documents that form the centerpiece of his reporting against W’s service. I guess when the LA Times says you’ve been had, you might want to check

We all knew Dan was biased. We all knew he was arrogant. We didn’t realize he was totally clueless. When one of his document analysts warned that the documents would be questioned by thousands, did he really not get it? Doesn’t he know about the “Wisdom of Crowds” theory of bloggers that James Surowiecki has made popular.

I am awarding Dan the Robin MacNeil award for Cluelessness. You may remember that when the erstwhile Mr. MacNeil was retiring from the MacNeil-Lehrer Report, he famously announced that neither he nor Jim Lehrer had any need for the Internet since. “We know how to use libraries.”