AFF's Doublethink

How conservative bloggers are scooping the New York Times.

Can a right-wing renegade become governor of New Jersey?

For someone who inadvertently triggered a clash of civilizations, Flemming Rose doesn’t look much like a provocateur. With his salt-and-pepper hair, college sweatshirt, and jeans over sneakers, the cultural editor of the largest Danish daily, Jyllands-Posten, seems disarmingly casual, a far cry from the frothing “Islamophobe” and “far-right” reactionary that some of his more intemperate detractors imagine him to be. But such is the reputation that has shadowed the mild-mannered Rose since September 30, 2005, when he published the 12 now-famous (or infamous) cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that took the world by storm.

HBO’s new Iraq war series Generation Kill preserves much of the serrated dialogue that made the original book memorable, but it never really trains its sights on the men behind the M-16s.