Surprise, surprise! Arizona Senator John McCain (and talk show hosts who touted his accusations) were wrong about the Arizona fires. They weren’t caused by illegal aliens (don’t expect to hear that on the shows that repeated McCain’s allegation as a political attack point).
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.