The "cartoon war" continues, not that you would know it by reading the papers or watching the network news. Insty points to today's must read column by William J. Bennett and Alan M. Dershowitz, A Failure of the Press. This piece is simply fantastic. It lays out the central issue, scolds the MSM and ends with a huge bang.

When we were attacked on Sept. 11, we knew the main reason for the attack was that Islamists hated our way of life, our virtues, our freedoms. What we never imagined was that the free press -- an institution at the heart of those virtues and freedoms -- would be among the first to surrender.