Those Hollywood Lefties Are Just Too Smart For Us

"[Hollywood activists] were willing to accept -- in fact, they recognized almost viscerally -- that the president's story about Iraq and weapons of mass destruction was too richly timed and too tightly wrapped, and they understood that once a storyteller began to tinker with facts, there was no end to the scenarios he might invent that he might dubiously claim to be 'based on a true story.'"

--- Matt Bai, in the November 13 New York Times Magazine