April 25, 2006
As Credibility Exits
I was flipping through the cable channels last night and momentarily came across Keith Olbermann's show, in which he was doing his very best to paint fired CIA leaker Mary O. McCarthy as some sort of a scapegoat fired just before her impending retirement as a warning to others who might dare have the audacity to challenge the Administration. Olbermann, like so many others in the media, seemed willing, even eager to take McCarthy's excuse at face value, even as the media refuses to do anything other than insinuate the very worst about those in the government accused by the media (but not law enforcement) in the Plame and NSA scandals.
Is the media so driven by a partisan desire to be kingmakers these days that it is unable to report events without an inordinate amount of partisan spin?
It be nice for a change to see the media become irate that leaks are so prevalent at the CIA during a war, and that McCarthy got within ten days of escaping the through retirement. Instead, they try to make her a martyr.
Is it any wonder that people increasingly distrust the media?
Wait a minute .....
You mean she admitted it before she denied it?
I thought John Kerry had the patent on that sort of flip-flopping and double-speak.
I guess we have no choice but to wait to see what the Department of Justice does about all this. I tend to agree with Bill Bennett. Violators should be indicted, prosecuted and, if found guilty in a court of law, sent to the slammer.
And don't forget the three journalist bottom feeders ....
Posted by: Retired Spy at April 25, 2006 08:21 AM
