"The administration has now lost all credibility." That's the New York Times editorial board, using recent news stories about the National Security Agency's antiterror data-mining operations as its latest weapon in the war against the black man in the White House.

OK, that racial reference is a non sequitur. We're trotting out a leftist technique of argumentation in order to make some points in a fun way. We borrowed the language, in fact, from MSNBC's Martin Bashir, sometimes known as the thinking man's Piers Morgan.

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