What do you get when you cross a Filipino monkey with a horse's a$$ ...

Last week some in the Pentagon and high up in this administration announced in most-serious tones that the Iranian Navy had almost provoked the US Navy into a violent confrontation in the Straits of Hormuz. The sabres were rattling for days, but then a strange thing started happening; some reporters actually did some investigative reporting.

Democracy Now! spoke with Gareth Porter, a historian and national security policy analyst who says ...

"I must say this is perhaps the worst -- the most egregious case of sensationalist journalism in the service of the interests of the Pentagon, the Bush administration, that I have seen so far."

And Digby writes a post based on onw The Newshoggers offers up titled "Who spun the Hormuz incident?"