The Daily Howler - 08/19/05

LOGIC OF LOSERS! When the liberal web praised Arianna (again!), we saw the stuff of born losers: // link // print // previous // next //

FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 2005

LOGIC OF LOSERS: Most likely, we’ll get fuller facts on the Plame leak case when Patrick Fitzgerald concludes his probe. In the meantime, we continue to marvel at the strange logic that is now hailed on the liberal web. Yes, we refer to Arianna’s latest, approvingly linked to by many lib leaders. Arianna quotes New York Times owner Arthur Sulzberger, who praises Judith Miller’s “act of conscience.” But to Arianna, this makes no sense—so she proffers a puzzling rebuttal:

HUFFINGTON (8/18/05): Directly contradicting this position is a former Timesman with impeccable journalistic credentials. Bill Kovach, the former Times Washington bureau chief, former curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, and founding director of the Committee of Concerned Journalists, has publicly voiced what many in and around the paper are saying privately.