That's right, we've bitchsmacked the embarrassing plagiarist and MN GOP Vice-Chair Michael Barrett, and now we've got an official retraction by TNR on the Scott Beauchamp stories.  ConfederateYankee and Michael Goldfarb @ Weekly Standard deserves special credit for staying on this story.

The dextrosphere can play a part in reshaping the narrative of the media.  In the broader scope, yeah, Beauchamp is a small story.  Barrett is even smaller.  But its just the beginning.   We get small victories here and there, even smaller blogs. 

I note  Conservative Belle, who exposed a shameless smear by reporter David Shuster.  Shuster apologized on-air soon after for his slimy smear.  One of the long-term goals of the dextrosphere, working with new media, has to be to counter the leftist dominated media.

*Oh, and I'll note, as Malkin says here, Ace has been vindicated.  He was heavily criticized for arguing that fact Beauchamp's wife worked at TNR was a serious conflict of interest, well, turns out, she was one of Beauchamp's factcheckers!  TNR states in its retraction that it was a clear conflict of interest.

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