"Who says things aren't falling apart?"

Crooks & Liars have a remarkable exchange between Howard Kurtz and Lara Logan, NBC's Iraqi correspondent. Ms. Logan finds the charges that the media is at fault in declining U.S. support for the Mess-o'-Potamia outrageous. Go watch.

The look she gives at the end, after the Putz has defended Laura Ingraham for attacking the media in Iraq for "reporting from their hotel balconies," is precious. Kurtz responds to Logan's response that Ingraham should come to Iraq and see the security situation for herself, saying that, actually, the conservative talk show host just spent "eight days" in Iraq. Logan -- who's spent three years there, reporting on a situation that began with reporters being able to move freely around the country to today, when everything depends on a military escort -- gives a wry, bitter smile, and says, "Eight days."