Seymour Hersch Profiled by Observer

Rachel Cooke of the Observer profiled legendary investigative reporter Seymour Hersch. Over his long career, Hersch has broken such important stories as the My Lia massacre, Nixon's secret bombing of Cambodia and the U.S.'s role in toppling Chile's president Salvador Allende. He's also contributed or followed up on reports on Watergate and Abu Ghraib among many others.

In the piece he condemns the Bush administration's march to war and criticizes the media's timidity in questioning:

"When I see the New York Times now, it's so shocking to me. I joined the Times in 1972, and I came with the mark of Cain on me because I was clearly against the war. But my editor, Abe Rosenthal, he hired me because he liked stories. He used to come to the Washington bureau and almost literally pat me on the head and say: "How is my little Commie today? What do you have for me?"

Richard Perle, former chairman of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board, actually said he's "the closest thing American journalism has to a terrorist."

Coming from that mouth, how could that not be taken as a compliment.