In a story about John Edwards and his affair with Rielle Hunter in which he quotes the National Enquirer, Roger L. Simon closes with this paragraph:
Oh, one last thing, for those of you who say it’s The National Enquirer, how do we know it’s true? I suggest you Google the “National Enquirer and OJ Simpson.” They broke most of the important stories on that case. In general, these days they’re vastly more reliable than The New York Times.
It has to hurt when someone slams “the paper of record” by saying that the most famous supermarket tabloid is more reliable. Even worse, it’s the whole truth and nothing but the truth.