"It therefore remains to the blogosphere and the competent opinion journalists to do the work that the mainstream media refuse to do," writes The Big Trunk at Power Line:
The coverage of Clarke's testimony by the mainstream media, such as Dana Milbank's story this morning in the Washington Post ("Clarke stays cool as partisanship heats up") provides another instance of the media's obscuring rather than illuminating the obvious facts -- in this case, the fact that Clarke has now revealed himself to be a bald-faced liar.
Milbank obnoxiously (and admiringly) observes in his story, for example, that "Clarke, appearing unfazed by the apparent contradiction between his current criticism and previous praise, spoke to [Commissioner and former Illinois Governor James] Thompson as if addressing a slow student." If Milbank were not the partisan hack he has proved himself to be, the story would observe that Clarke stayed cool as a pathological liar does while he was publicly exposed as a fraud.
Clarke's body language yesterday made the little hairs on the back of our neck bristle, and the obsequious stroking of their star witness by partisan commissioners Bob Kerrey and Richard Benveniste made our toes curl. The blogosphere's outraged reaction is soothing and cooling.
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