I was more correct than I thought, as “vastly dumber” seriously underestimates the 10-minutes-more-current state of the discourse.

Now I see that Big Journalism is ablaze with this article in which The Daily Caller‘s Jonathan Strong reveals that the cosigners a letter published in The Nation in April of 2008 actually discussed the contents of that letter before they signed it. Moreover, Strong reveals that all of these people worked for publications whose editorial slant is patently liberal or leftist like Mother Jones or The Washington Independent.

This is only a conspiracy if you’re an idiot. Because if you don’t believe that people who work for liberal or leftist publications, or are hired to be the liberal editorial voices for mainstream publications, are liberals who might commingle with those who share their beliefs, online and elsewhere, you are an idiot.*

*I’m not about to throw Donald Douglas a link, but just in case you need proof of my bold thesis: he’s all over this story.

Update: Looks like Henry Farrell beat me to what is, quite rightly, his punch to take.