In today's Chicago Tribune, columnist
Clarence Page weighs in on the Propagannon scandal, and does so with an iron fist.
Page's column, "Check Your Media Lapdogs, Mr. President" begins
WASHINGTON -- If America's mainstream media really were as liberal as conservatives claim we are, we would be ballyhooing the fiasco of James D. Guckert, a.k.a. Jeff Gannon, with Page 1 banner headlines and hourly bulletins.
Then, Page gets riled up:
Revealing a CIA agent's identity is a federal crime. A Time magazine reporter and a New York Times reporter face possible jail sentences for refusing to say who revealed Plame's CIA role to them in an apparent effort to discredit Wilson's criticism of the Bush administration's Iraq war policy. Is the prosecutor putting Guckert's feet to the fire too? If not, why not?
Then Page writes with a fire I am unaccustomed to seeing among the RWCM (emphasis mine:)
But I thought the last straw was the unprecedented herding of reporters covering this year's inaugural balls into pens from which they could only venture to interview ball guests if they were escorted by "minders"
in the fashion of Saddam Hussein's Iraq.
Tell me again: What was that war about? Oh, yeah: freedom and democracy. Great. I'd like to see a little more of that back here at home.
I think that this week is debuting as the week that this story finally broke big time in the mainstream consciousness.
Read Page's column, and if so moved, e-mail him some props. He deserves them.