Skeptical Notion

Streak noticed this too. While surfing last night, he captured this exchange between one of the blonde "journalists" and Joseph Wilson [not a transcription]:

"I was in Washington recently and people there told me that your wife's identity as an agent was widely known."

Wilson: "It is widely known now, but it wasn't then."

Blonde stupid person: "People told me it was"

Wilson: "that isn't true. very few people outside our family knew"

Blonde idiot: "People said they knew."

That was her level of journalistic integrity: people told her and so she never bothered to follow up. If Al Franken's account of the Paul Wellstone funeral coverage is correct, that could have been floated by one conservative in Washington, and so everyone starts restating the spin that you can't leak something everyone already knew. This sucks. And besides being dishonest, it is more lie to the argument that conservatives care more about national security than liberals. If they did, they would be turning on their administration and chiding them very publicly. Hell, Clinton got more public chiding for the you-know-what in the white house.