Today’s required reading

Krugman, in his usual devastatingly effective tone, deconstructs the myth that W has strayed from true conservatism. But this bit really stuck out for me:

People claim to be shocked at the Bush administration’s attempts — which, for a time, were all too successful — to intimidate the press. But this administration’s media tactics, and to a large extent the people implementing those tactics, come straight out of the Nixon administration. Dick Cheney wanted to search Seymour Hersh’s apartment, not last week, but in 1975. Roger Ailes, the president of Fox News, was Nixon’s media adviser.

Nixon, Bush, Cheney, and Ailes – that my friends, is a truly horrifying harmonic convergence of Beltway evil.