...well-intentioned and, yes, experts. This was pointed out to me not by a journalist, but by a man who pretends to be a journalist: Jon Stewart. Interviewing me on his Daily Show shortly after the hyped-up scare of Jose Padilla's alleged "dirty bomb" plot in 2002, he asked about my role in the media coverage. "For a guy like you", he said, "is this like when you see the weatherman and a hurricane is coming, and the weatherman never really gets to be at the top of the news, but in a hurricane, he is. And he's got his big rain slicker on and saying, 'It's a devastating event!'"

He was right. That is exactly what it is like for dozens of experts put in front of the cameras and microphones and asked to play their role in the frenzy of "Crisis with Iran",...

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