The Asher doctrine applied

Powerline:

"Simply put, while McClatchy's motto is 'Truth to Power,' Asher relies on the assumption that congressmen always tell the truth. So, in the spirit of understanding what this means to McClatchy, a few other stories Asher can publish and upon which he can stake the reputation of McClatchy reporters." Rubin offers these stories:


1. "Guam is sinking." Rep. Hank Johnson (D., Ga.) said it, that's good enough for me.


2. "Aliens visit earth, stalk Denis Kucinich." After all, Rep. Denis Kucinich (D., Ohio) says it's true.


3. "Robert Mugabe is blameless in Zimbabwe's collapse." Nothing to see here: Forget the famine, forget the thuggery, forget the hyperinflation. Mugabe was just righting wrongs. After all, Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D., Ga.) said so.


4. "Television broadcasts began years earlier than we realized." After all, Joe Biden said Franklin D. Roosevelt got on TV to explain the stock market crash in 1929, even though commercial broadcasts only began the next decade.