Matt Bivens poses a hypothetical: Imagine if some bugaboo of the right -- Hilary Clinton, say -- gave the keynote address at a charity event linked to terrorists. Imagine if three whole days before Senator Clinton lent her name and her time to the event, The Hill, a quality newspaper that covers Congress, had come out with a devastating report linking the charity event to a terrorist organization -- one that has killed Americans, seized a US Embassy, and worked hand-in-glove with Saddam. Imagine if The Hill report, under the headline "Terrorists Plan DC Fundraiser," also revealed that the Red Cross -- the purported beneficiary of the event -- was having nothing to do with it. Imagine if two whole days beforehand, one Republican Congressman had demanded that Attorney General John Ashcroft investigate the charity, and another who'd been invited to speak announced he wouldn't. Imagine if, after all that, Senator Clinton (or Ted Kennedy, or Howard Dean, or Al Franken, or any other boogeyman of the right) nevertheless showed up to give a rousing speech -- for a rousing fee. And imagine if, when confronted afterwards, she insisted she was simply helping the Red Cross; and then, when informed that the Red Cross days ago had publicly renounced the event, mumbled, "I was unaware of that." You can guess where this is going, right?