I was puzzled by his treatment of Joe Wilson. Obviously Bob thinks that Joe is a BSer who overstates his case, and that pisses Bob off. But, in the one or two cases I tracked down, it was Bob who overstated.

Bob’s rudeness toward Christy about the distinction between “key judgements” and mere assertions goes well beyond anything negative he said about Wilson. And, Christy is right on when she writes: “But I can guarantee you that if you tried to explain the significance of this to someone who hasn’t paid attention to the case, you are simply going to get some eyes glazing over and a ‘huh?’” She said nothing that deserves that condescending rudeness.

No, it isn’t, it’s part of the selective leaking that was used to push back against the truth.

That’s over Somerby’s head, I guess, or else his ego’s too big to admit his little “A HAH!” here is nothing. He’s the guy going overboard.

He has to he’s marginalized himself by carrying the Republicans’ water on Joe Wilson all along.
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That’s all he does. That’s why he’s useless. He painted himself into a corner on the Joe Wilson affair and he can’t get over himself enough to admit it.

Yes, liberals are getting nasty. Somerby is getting upset. You’re breaking my heart.
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As for FDL, do we send a barrage of email to the post.com’s ombudsman? Howler makes a valid point. People are picking nits daily and getting worked up into a lather, on both sides. FDL should discuss these things, just as we would like more discussion from places such as post.com and The Post itself.

I enjoy many of people/outlets with which the Howler is being “nitpicky”. That said, I can’t find fault with Howler’s points.

I’ve read Bob’s Daily Howler since the 2000 campaign. He’s done good work over the years, and I still give him a read daily. However (here it comes), he thinks that he is the only rational voice out here. Only he saw Gore being picked on by the media. Only he can correct what’s wrong with education. Only he can correctly/accurately analyze the media. And so on. His attack on FDL is par for his course. And, in my view, unwarranted regardless of the vulgarity.

I think the issue is tangential in the grand scheme of the Plame leak investigation, right or wrong. I also think that that level of nastiness should be directed toward whoever committed the treasonous act of outing Plame in the first place. Just my humble opinion.

Hey, you dumb f*cking rubes: This morning, over at firedoglake, Christy Hardin Smith is treating her readers like a pack of dumb, f*cking rubes. “ReddHead†just can’t puzzle it out the meaning of Fitzgerald’s correction. Try to believe that she wrote this:

SMITH (4/13/06): Now, to those of us who have been obsessed with this case since the investigation began, this has some meaning. But I can guarantee you that if you tried to explain the significance of this to someone who hasn’t paid attention to the case, you are simply going to get some eyes glazing over and a “huh?â€

Pathetic. So let’s explain it nice and slow, so slow that even Smith will get it.