Internet Tokyo Rose

Brian Williams of NBC Nightly News introduced a "story" last night which detailed how radical Islam was placing phony stories on the Internet in an effort to undermine support for the war in Iraq.

Did NBC News just get their broadband hookup yesterday? Is this story so shocking, so unbelievable, so horrifying that it made the Evening News? Those tricky Islamic radicals, posting anti-war messages on YouTube? How diabolical!

Give me a break.

Have we forgotten how to reason? The video example that the NBC showed was so clumsily edited, it looked like a badly dubbed Kung Fu movie.

When I was growing up, my teachers and parents cautioned us not to believe everything you read. Anyone who has spent more than five minutes on the Internet knows the same thing.

I guess the staff at NBC never learned that lesson.