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It's a brave new world.

The great advantage of tackling a novel is that you don't have to bother with such annoying procedures as checking your facts.

Bush used a version of the same technique: 'I heard somebody say, well, maybe so-and-so is not patriotic because they disagree with my position. I totally reject that thought.' Somebody? So-and-so? Who could he be referring to?

Newspapers are trying to use their own Web sites to provide 24-hour coverage, even though the old dinosaur, ink-on-paper version only comes out once a day.

But if this is the tip of the iceberg, in other words, if there are more moments in debates or other interviews, where he seems not to have a grasp, sure, that could be a major problem, ... But that will depend on whether this sort of thing ... resonates with voters. It may not, this may be a media flap, it may be a one-day story.