Let's play "Detect the Irony"

Read this recent entry from The New Republic's "The Plank" blog:

Let's say you're Carl Cannon and you're sitting down to write your review of Stephen F. Hayes's hagiography of Dick Cheney in the New York Times. How do you deal with the fact that the book you're reviewing has, shall we say, credibility issues?
(read the whole thing--recommended)

What kind of credibility issues has Hayes got? Josh Patashnik, who wrote the entry, doesn't say. He does quote Carl Cannon to the effect that Hayes had "an established view of the vice president," however. And after that quotation he adds "So even if you can't really trust anything Hayes says ..."

So, let me get this straight.

If a journalist has an established view on something, then you can't trust anything he says about it?


So why did TNR hire Scott Thomas Beauchamp, again?