Don't Cry for Me, Broderella

Boehlert on Libby's apologists at the WaPo.

h/t Atrios.

The Spin, the UnSpun and the Media

Christy.

The fact that a British newspaper can see the broader political and ethical issues more clearly than their American counterparts is not surprising. Looking afar at the machinations of the Bush Administration and how it has clawed its way through the upper echelons of the Blair government has become something of a journalistic sport in the UK.
But the fact that an American newspaper, located in the nation's capitol, which made its journalistic bones twenty times over only a few short decades ago digging into the meat of a scandal that shook the very foundations of power — a newspaper which now has an editorial page that begs at the knees of Dick Cheney's sycophants like just another lap dog hoping for a few, paltry scraps?

Congratulations to the entire FDL team on a trial well-covered. I am very grateful.