The Talent Show

I know I'm a little late on this one, but Salon's Imperfect Martyr piece from the other day was complete bullshit. Andrew O'Hehir draws a false analogy between Judy Miller's jailing and the ACLU defending Nazis, claims that the majority of liberals favor her jailing because of residual anger over the Iraq war[1]I want to see Miller punished for her misinformation laundering as much as the next guy, but the reason she belongs in jail right now have nothing to do with that., and wraps himself in the first amendment so tightly that he's in danger of suffocating. And I haven't even mentioned how patronizing and self-righteous it is...

The antidote to these "If you disagree with me, you hate the bill of rights" slurs can be found in three great articles from this week. First is this piece that Sid Blumenthal wrote for Salon...

Next up is this mea culpa[2]Latin for "my bad". from Robert Kuttner ...

The quaint and outdated talk about reporters serving the public interest segues nicely into the third, and best, article from Jacob Weisberg at Slate. Read on...