I wrote a version of this post last night and quickly pulled it because it required a bit more detail than I'd put into it. Josh Marshall does the work.
But, the answer is no. Anne Kornblut is not the stupidest person alive. More importantly, her editors aren't the stupidest people alive. They know what they're doing. They aren't stupidly buying into Novak's spin, they're deliberately carrying water for him.
