On the very same day Politico tosses the keys to its signature, read-by-everyone newsletter to a rightwing propagandist, @hughhewitt takes a completely accurate, almost banal tweet by a Politico editor to tar it as a left-wing rag. Perfect. When I've asked good, objective political reporters why they continue to go on Hewitt's show, some of them have sheepishly admitted that they do in order to sell their books to conservative readers. But, honestly, it's looking more and more like a protection racket he's running.

In response to @MZHemingway’s critique of my story on Devin Nunes, many of her complaints are about subjective interpretations of events and tone. But since she alleges that my story is “riddled with errors,” I want to respond to her various claims of factual inaccuracies. 1/ My piece didn’t attempt to re-litigate the debate over the Abbotabad documents. Suffice it to say, there are people—like Steve Hayes and Thom Joscelyn—who believe the documents are a Rosetta stone. 2/