GordonM @ 84

Last thing we need. Whistleblowers are already on the endangered species list. That’d wipe ‘em out.

That is an illusion/myth drummed up by journalist. The official secrets act is only used in the most extreme cases of abuse such as Judy Mllers false reporting or Robert Novaks outing of Plame.

In the A*P*C Rosen espionage trial the F.B.I. “allegedly” while he was being given classified intelligence about Iran by I believe either Franklin or a journalist saying “I am sure glad the U.S. does not have an Official Secrets Act”. Kenneth Pollack is “allegedly” US Gov I in the Pac investigation.

amen! thank goodness for actual journalists like dana priest. i want to protect them and their sources.

barbara @ 113:
My point is that we should consider spending less time on our collective angst about the stinking state of MSM journalism and celebrate (and elevate) the work of principled bloggers.
yes.

What you refer to as “angst” I consider accountability. We need to hold people (liars who cause death) like Miller ACCOUNTABLE so that she or anyone else are unable to pull the same crimes against Iran or any other country or people that they have their sites on. The cakewalk liars started beating the war drums against Iran immediately after the invasion of Iraq. Liebermann, Kristol, Perle, Woolsey, Cheney and other have endlessly been repeating unsubstantiated claims about Iran for four years.

“Matthews: Judy, you’re a hero to the press. You are a woman to be trusted with secrets and thank you for coming on […].”

inexplicably edited out: “to Scooter”

If Judy Miller is a hero to the press and Chris Matthews any threads of hope to witness the MSM clean it up are thrown out the window.

The MSM created the need for blogs and Matthews statement will keep me coming here for the truth and facts.

It’s very frustrating to watch Matthews at all. I’ve seen him eviscerate pundits one day, then totally fawn all over them the next. It’s almost like watching someone with bipolar disorder. However, this is just one more Beltway hack who somehow got his own show. Please take him away and give it to Shuster, who’s doing a stellar job in Washington.

Absolutely.
though I agree about the frustration watching Matthews. Sometimes I’m shouting at the TV angrily, then I’m shouting again… still angry… saying it is about fricking time. (when he is coming down hard appropriately…) I’df much rather see Tucker go. Every so often I check in to see what is going on with him and wind up writing an angry letter to MSNBC demanding they take him off the air after questioning how he got on the air, and begging them to give the show to David Shuster.
So far they haven’t listened.

And Dan Abrams is annoying too. I preferred Scarborough. (can you tell I’m a political news junky?)

Selise, if you’re still reading this: please accept my apology. It turns out Stephanie Miller was NOT in town to testify before a committee. Rather, she’s having lunch with a bunch of Democratic Senators re the Fairness Doctrine.

Thanks for putting up with my [what turned out to be] frivolous query.

no problem! thanks for letting me know you have it figured out.

Thanks for putting up with my [what turned out to be] frivolous query.

inexplicably edited out: “to Scooter”

Tweety also has had several crushes on men, notably, Commander Codpiece and more recently, Fred “Old Spice” Thomson.

too late…

I have one question no one but Tweety can answer for us. Does Matthews REALLY consider Judy a hero, or was he just stroking her?

He sure seems to get all goosey with skinny women, not that I would suggest he has some psychology to overcome, but why is it that he always acts like a little boy to one of these “cutie-pies” but he’s such a tough “Hardballer” towards anyone else of any stripe or gender.
As someone who has been a movie critic, an editor, a reporter and a feature writer, and someone who has managed both boy’s hardball and girl’s softball leagues, I still LOL when I watch his dialy softball tournaments, especially when he’s got conservative women on the show, it is like “Tweety’s dark side” disappears and he becomes junior high jock with a crush on his English teacher.

It’s like a reverse “Boys to Men” more like “Men to Boys” transition. The hardballer gets all soft and fuzzy when he deals with a certain type of woman.

Easy enough to prove, now that you have heard this theory, just watch Hardball (if you can stomach it, which sometimes I can not, especially when he gets people like Delay on there and never once pops a serious corruption question.) His transformation from hardball pitcher to clumsy schoolkid with a crush is usually not hard to spot, once you come to expect it. His “Playboy” character is not very well concealed.