Seymour Hersh is an axe-grinding, anti-administration, muckracker.

God bless him.

From My Lai to the present day, I would say that his track record is pretty good -- 80 percent or better (I haven't read all of his stuff, but I have read a lot of it). I doubt he makes a lot of friends, and there were some muckracking bits that seemed to hang by thin threads or which turned out not quite right (Gen McAffrey's alleged massacre during the '91 Gulf War as a case of the former and the Kennedy-Marilyn letters in his Kennedy book as an embarassing example of the latter), but I think Hersh is driven to get the dirt. I like him.

There isn't really anything about the referenced Hersh New Yorker piece that seems that shocking. Like Rumsfeld *doesn't* think he knows better than every-f*cking-body else? And much of what he is saying has been sourced and echoed elsewhere.

New Yorker never seemed like much of a political mag to me. Has it gotten more political or am I just noticing political content more?