What, Me Worry?

Did I hear someone say that we've NEVER given an approving link to the NYT? Can it be true? Well let it never be said again. Run on over, do that trick with the gasoline-soaked rag under your nose that they do on CSI, and take a look at John Tierney's "Where's the Newt?"

"At first it looked like an outrageous crime harming innocent victims: a brave whistle-blower was smeared by a vicious White House politico who committed a felony by exposing the whistle-blower's wife as an undercover officer, endangering her and her contacts in the field."

And now?

"For now, though, it looks as if this scandal is about a spy who was not endangered, a whistle-blower who did not blow the whistle and was not smeared, and a White House official who has not been fired for a felony that he did not commit. And so far the only victim is a reporter who did not write a story about it."

He concludes: "What do you call a scandal that's not scandalous? Nadagate."

And I do believe, if you'd like to clear your palate, that you might wish to revisited Mark Steyn's column of almost exactly one year ago (July 18, 2004): "Here lies Joe Wilson."