Michael Goldfarb vs. David Shuster…

The Weekly Standard’s Michael Goldfarb calls MSNBC’s David Shuster a liar. Pretty strong stuff. What will Shuster’s reply be?

MSNBC’s journalistic standards are, shall we say, somewhat flexible. Even by its weak standards, however, David Shuster today issued a report that was breathtaking for its mendacity. Simply put, Shuster lied–brazenly, knowingly, on the air.

The subject of Shuster’s piece was the left’s all-purpose villain Joe Lieberman. He charged that Lieberman is a “hypocrite” because, in Shuster’s words, he’s “been praising President Obama and his administration these days even as Lieberman fights most of the most crucial Obama policies.”

And what, pray tell, is Shuster’s evidence? He says of Lieberman: “You’ve publicly declared it’s a mistake to engage in dialogue with Iran. You’ve taken issue with President Obama offering a time table for withdrawal of troops from Iraq.”

Frankly, we here at TWS would be delighted if these were Joe Lieberman’s views. Alas for us-–and more importantly, for whatever pretense of integrity David Shuster tries to maintain, they’re not. Shuster made these things up, apparently out of whole cloth.