The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.

Bottom Stories of the Day

  • “No ‘Occupy Boston’ Walkout at Tufts Wednesday”–headline, Patch.com (Medford, Mass.), Oct. 5
  • “Moose Sighted, Sedated West of Ottawa”–headline, CBC.ca, Oct. 4

Accountability Journalism
Here’s the lead paragraph from an Associated Press dispatch yesterday:

The federal government under the Bush administration ran an operation that allowed hundreds of guns to be transferred to suspected arms traffickers–the same tactic that congressional Republicans have criticized President Barack Obama’s administration for using, two federal law enforcement officials said Tuesday.

And here’s the lead of an AP dispatch today:

The Obama administration has tracked down and killed Osama bin Laden, Anwar al-Awlaki and other al-Qaida leaders. Yet, in spite of those successes, Republicans and some Democrats in Congress remain intent on challenging the administration’s policies for handling captured terror suspects.

The AP will use every tool in its shed, from the tu quoque to the outright non sequitur, to hold accountable those who would question the Obama administration.

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