The Occasional Observer

And he took along the lapdog press for a ride. And the MSM is only now figuring it out. It's too bad that, as with everything the drive-by media does, the damage to the truth can't be undone. Of course, they want to set the record straight, but hopefully with a quiet enough voice that not too many folks will hear, as you'll see below.

With a hat-tip to RealClearPolitics, here's the money quote from the liberal Washingotn Post:

It now appears that the person most responsible for the end of Ms. Plame's CIA career is Mr. Wilson. Mr. Wilson chose to go public with an explosive charge, claiming -- falsely, as it turned out -- that he had debunked reports of Iraqi uranium-shopping in Niger and that his report had circulated to senior administration officials. He ought to have expected that both those officials and journalists such as Mr. Novak would ask why a retired ambassador would have been sent on such a mission and that the answer would point to his wife. He diverted responsibility from himself and his false charges by claiming that President Bush's closest aides had engaged in an illegal conspiracy. It's unfortunate that so many people took him seriously.

"So many people" like... us? I guess the only question that remains is how, after beating the Fitzmas and scandal drum for years, the WaPo can get off scot free by taking Wilson to the woodshed and not having a direct page one apology to the VP and the administration? They gloss it over by claiming "We're reluctant to return to the subject" as though it wasn't page one WaPo news scores of times. They also refuse to give up the premise that the administration is to blame, even though they just said Wilson is to blame: "That's not to say that Mr. Libby and other White House officials are blameless..."

What a bunch of clowns. I wonder why no one respects the MSM.