And the Dakotah Fanning Award goes to...

It will be fascinating to watch the personal and political motivations underlying this hoax revealed.

Girl's story of dad was a hoax, paper says

For two years, Carbondale residents have been riveted by the writing of a little girl imploring her [soldier] father in Iraq: "Don't die, OK?"

Only now are they learning there was never any danger of that.

What is just as fascinating is that even though the story is still unfolding, some bloggers and commenters have already decided that the perpetrators are either antiwar, anti-Bush liberals or prowar, pro-Bush wingnuts.

All I am willing to say at this point is that the little girl who took on the persona of the imaginary Kodee Kennings for two years deserves the Dakotah Fanning Award for acting in a nonexistent documentary film.