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Short version of this morning's Chicago Tribune front-pager: A rich guy who doesn't wear a suit has bought a rich newspaper run by rich guys who do wear suits. The rich guy who doesn't wear a suit says the paper should be "relevant."

One way to be relevant: dispatch Dick Tracy and Charles Krauthammer on a one-way mission to Iran.

The op-ed page of today's Tribune features a syndicated column by Washington Post pundit Charles Krauthammer. Either the Trib didn't notice or didn't care, but the column (which ran in last Friday's Post) is based on a flagrant lie, which was detected eons ago in blogosphere time, first by conservative writer Andrew Sullivan on Friday and then by political scientist/blogger Brendan Nyhan on Saturday.

Krauthammer writes: "Our objectives in Iraq were twofold and always simple: depose Saddam Hussein and replace his murderous regime with a self-sustaining, democratic government."

Amazingly, Krauthammer airbrushes the claim that Hussein possessed "weapons of mass destruction," the notoriously false rationale used by the Cheney administration during the run-up to the war -- and echoed by tame columnists at the time. Fortunately for the rest of us, it's not 1984, so Nyhan can refute Krauthammer simply by quoting his old columns, which dwelled obsessively on WMD.

Hey, it's the Trib's newspaper, the Trib's reputation, and the Trib's stock price (not necessarily in that order). But why should the rest of us settle for sloppy seconds that were full of E. coli the first time around?

"It takes a true lack of class to fire a newspaperman on the day he's most needed, just to ensure no one sees the story." -- Harry Siegel at Cities on a Hill, on the Tribune Company choosing election day to toss the recalcitrant Los Angeles Times editor Dean Baquet off their weaving chariot.

Steve Rhodes of the Beachwood Reporter stayed up till the wee hours so we didn't have to. It was all worth it when he heard this, from Chris Matthews's lips to Pat Buchanan's ears: "Let's not pretend you were on Lincoln's side in that war!"