Retraction.

From Salon's Nothing Personal column, once again:

"Breathe easy: Michael Jackson's rep says the "Invincible" singer does not have anthrax. "That must have been a rumor, spread by a terrorist," Howard Rubenstein told the New York Daily News of a report quoting Jackson himself. "It is totally without foundation." "

"Spread by a terrorist"? To what end? That American society would crumble in the wake of such an event, I suppose?