Lots of stuff out on the Valerie Plame scandal-in-making, and I’m not sure I really have much new to add to the chorus of concern over it. (Both Calpundit and Talking Points Memo are doing a good job of summarizing and commenting on it). But I’m finding the media slant on this fascinating. After all, the story’s been around for a while. Howard Kurtz makes that very point today in his Media Notes:
One lingering question: Where was the press in the weeks after the July 14 Novak column? Other than a few news stories and outraged columns by David Corn and Paul Krugman, the media were napping on this story until the CIA kicked it over to Justice.
By the way, remember the flap in July when Matt Drudge reported that someone in the White House communications office, displeased with an ABC reporter’s dispatch on Iraq, had complained that he was gay and Canadian?
My guess would be that the press corps was bending over backwards to show it was evenhanded and not “shrill” like Corn or Krugman that they gave the story the kid-glove treatment until the Post story opened the floodgates.
David Brooks may be right when he writes that “In fact, most people in the last two administrations were well-intentioned patriots doing the best they could. The core threat to democracy is not in the White House, it’s the haters themselves.” But this week especially it’s hard to find good intentions in this White House.
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