Friday, July 29, 2005

Say It Ain't So

If what Arriana Huffington suggests in the post cited in Rob's post turns out to be true, this is bad news for those of us who would like to see the Bush administration tarnished by the Rove-Plame scandal. If Arriana's right, the conservative echo chamber will be able to chose from one of two tactics:

1. It can try to distract from any accusations of wrongdoing by the Bush administration by blathering on about yet another offense of the mainstream media. I.e. Not only did Dan Rather rely on forged memos and Mike Isikoff trust unreliable sources, but Judy Miller outted a CIA agent. How can we trust these people? We can't. But there's always Brit Hume.

2. It could argue that even Judy Miller, a star reporter for that liberal Media paragon, The New York Times, felt that the whistle needed to be blown on Jospeh Wilson. Karl Rove was brave enough to blow it.

Of course, the only thing precluding the use of both tactics simultaneously is a commitment to intellectual honesty, by which I mean there is nothing precluding the use of both tactics simultaneously.

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