Ryan Lizza writes an expose of Michelle Bachmann in The New Yorker.  As Joe Carter shows on firstthings.com, the story is full of distortions and misleading claims.

Doesn’t stop other journalists.  The Economist summarizes Lizza’s piece as is, and so the ball starts rolling.  Lizza’s article becomes instant orthodoxy, and soon everyone will think that only a few cranks like the “theocrats” at First Things object.