Dana Milbank Takes More Friendly Fire
July 29, 2006 at 3:35 pm
Michael Steele says naughty things about President Bush and the Republican Party — and who gets in trouble? The guy who reported it, Dana Milbank.
Here’s Washington Post ombudsman Deborah Howell:
The column illustrated beautifully not just Republican problems this year but also how politicians try to play the blame game without taking responsibility. And, for my taste, how reporters too easily agree to shield them…. Always be cautious of politicians bearing negative quotes under a cloak of anonymity.
juandos said,
July 29, 2006 @ 6:07 pm
Just one question, what planet is Deborah Howell from?
I mean its painfully obvious what she is trying to rationalize didn’t happen on planet earth but then again that’s to be expected from the whole staff of the WaPo…
TallDave said,
July 29, 2006 @ 7:05 pm
I can see her point. Hey, it’s not like this was an IMPORTANT secret, like the details of national security programs that are catching terrorists.
But it was obvious that the candidate would be outed by the end of the day
Translation: “We journalists are untrustworthy scumbags, and you should know that by now. Shame on you for trusting us.”
hadi said,
July 29, 2006 @ 7:26 pm
oh
very good
Cosmo Reaxer said,
July 29, 2006 @ 8:14 pm
The picture is a perfect choice not just because it’s funny, but because it illustrates the problem with Milbank — as good a reporter as he is, and I think he can be tremendously good, he doesn’t think the rules apply to him. Milbank would do everyone a favor, but most of all himself, if he traded places with John Dickerson at Slate. Dickerson’s better at the straight news anyway, and Milbank needs to be at a place where he can be as biased and temperamental and brilliant as he once was at TNR.
DANEgerus said,
July 29, 2006 @ 9:05 pm
Yeah… it’s really all Steele’s fault that Dana Milbank tried to inflate his story with off the record remarks taken out of context.
Attempting to tell, you know, the truth, really is Steele’s fault.
After all… he is… [drum roll]… Dana Milbank. Who does Steele think he is?
Wyatt Wingfoot said,
July 30, 2006 @ 12:02 am
That old pic from Olbermann’s nightly clown news looks like Mushmouth from “Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids”. Mush for brains, too. Hey-buh you-buh, can-buh you-buh, hail-buh, me-buh, a cab-buh?
John said,
July 30, 2006 @ 2:51 am
Well, Dana, is a girlie man. I wonder how would Hezbollah abuse him - individually or through a gang-bang?
Treasonous coward is who this loser is.
Chen Dickey said,
July 31, 2006 @ 7:18 am
“Dana Milbank Takes More Friendly Fire”: we all know where Dana “takes” it, don’t we?