Daily Howler - June 18, 2005

A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCE CAPS! Matthews’ panel had a dunce cap for Kerry. They should have worn it themselves: // link // print // previous // next //

SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 2005

CONASON GETS IT RIGHT: On Friday, Joe Conason savaged “the Beltway herd” for trying to downplay the Downing Street memos. But omigod! We cheered as Joe took on Michael Kinsley for the sneering piece he had written last week (see THE DAILY HOWLER, 6/13/05). Kinsley mocked readers who interrupted his slumbers by asking his views on the Downing Street memo; after six weeks, he finally read it, and called his e-mailers big dopes. How stupid could they be, the mighty scribe asked. After all, everyone knew, in July 2002, that Bush had decided on war with Iraq! But Conason did what we should have done—he looked up what Kinsley had said in real time. Did everyone actually know in real time?