Want to start the day off with a good laugh?

I’m not talking about comic relief...but side-splitting laughter.

He uses the rumor recently spread about Obama’s stint in a mandrassa as an opportunity to condemn bloggers and all those who don’t trust the mainstream media  “People who pick up questionable things and present them as real are info-pimps.”

You see, the bogus story about Obama wouldn’t have started if people only relied on Old Media as the sole source for their news:

“We don't just sit here in this fabulous tower making stuff up.

If a reporter goes to Iraq and sends back a report, it's news and it's right and I know that because I know all of the people who touch it before you read it. We have a good foreign desk, completely professional, dedicated and, above all, ethical.

In fact, we have that kind of skill all over the place in layers. They are great colleagues and very serious about journalism...”

Where were all those famous editorial and fact-checking layers when the Reuters and Associated Press scandals revealed that those organizations were trafficking fraudulent stories and photographs from the Middle East?

Madigan’s column is a classic case of what behavioral scientists call denial.