Kim Jong-Il, Kim Jong-Il Mon Amour

Hugh Hewitt puts the coup de grace to the LA Times and its resident North Korea propaganda minister, Barbara Demick:

What the totality of Demick's work demonstrates is that neither she nor her editors are in a hurry to detail the horrific nature of the North Korean regime. In fact, they work to smooth over that shocking picture, even to the extent of providing a front-page apologia.

WHAT CAN BE SAID of Demick and the Los Angeles Times? First, favorable propaganda of this sort would never be written if the regime in question were suspected of rightwing extremism.

The Nazis staged wonderful Wagner revues, but to dwell on these rather misses the point.