Comments on: WaPo, I Hate to Say I Told You So…

By: pmorlan

pmorlan — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:05:35 +0000

So did you send him another email? I’d love to know his response. LOL

By: Argonaut

Argonaut — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:48:08 +0000

What Johnny said. Or, what should be on the wall at every Wapo reporter’s desk:

“This is the Law: Facts unreal? Face the Wheel.”

By: diablesseblu

diablesseblu — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:37:39 +0000

This post is quite simply one of the best I have ever read on FDL. EW, you have just perfectly summed up the recent TradMed approach to journalism by highlighting this one bozo.

By: JohnnyTable70

JohnnyTable70 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:44:15 +0000

I thought reporters did reporting. Smith seems like a stenographer. Do you accept what your research tells you at face value or do you check it yourself. Sounds like another Beltway wanker that is too lazy to do his own work and when he gets busted by a proverbial blogger in pajamas he makes snide comments and blames said researcher for his own failures.

One of the reasons I read EW is becomes of marcy’s excellent reportage, especially anything pertaining to Plame, torture, or the anthrax investigation. If anyone in the trad Media was as thorough as Marcy, the rest of the lazy reporters would be copying off of that person. Instead they mock the messenger simply because she is a “blogger.” And newspaper executives scratch their heads because somehow fewer people are buying their daily birdcage liner.

By: Mary

Mary — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:37:01 +0000

EW – I guess you should be glad he sent an email instead of throwing a punch

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/02/iwashington-posti-employe_n_342337.html

(I really want to know the worst story now too).

By: readerOfTeaLeaves

readerOfTeaLeaves — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:42:54 +0000

Okay, but my question is still: “WTF can’t the Pay2PlayPo see that what Dick Cheney actually said to the FBI was ‘f*ck you, hahahahahaaaaa, because I can.’”

For that WaPo guy to miss that one took some genuine talent.

By: bobschacht

bobschacht — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:55:28 +0000

Mikey was on Hardball with David Corn talking about the Cheney interview. I couldn’t quite determine whether he deviated from his previous script.

Better yet, on Countdown, FDL (i.e., EW) got a shout out from Olbermann and John Dean no less than 3 times!

Bob in AZ

By: LabDancer

LabDancer — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:20:30 +0000

Yeah well now I’m just getting confused about the dimensions of your point. We agree — you, as usual, bringing bagged, sealed, numbered, itemized, analyzed proof [show-off]– that as of May 2004 it would be rational for Cheney to do what he did with the blanket journalists waiver that Fitz proffered: mumble some gibberish about having to consult a lawyer [like the one immediately at hand and the other with his ear to the keyhole were merely a couple of slabs of moldy gouda], put on a little travelling music, bite a neck or two and move on out of range–permanently. So anyway, even tho it doesn’t deserve bonus points, I’m sticking with the answer I gave yesterday:

“The previously Undead One sure seemed to want to make it clear that Fitz was able to produce a waiver from every administration person Novak eventually ’squealed’ on.”

By: dipper

dipper — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:14:09 +0000

[BTW: R.I.P., Soupy Sales].
Love your sense of humor, LabDancer@8.

By: LabDancer

LabDancer — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:08:37 +0000

Oops–plus I agree with you on the obstruction; but the distinction is moot now & always would have been. Don’t we get the impression that Bush wanted Cheney to suffer a little, like by proxy, but not a whole bunch, such that any blood might splash on presidential shoes?