Reply #332: what i don't understand...

[druidity33]

is why people have been so persistent about knowing more from the "journos". If i were a journalist and had cultivated sources that i trusted, and had multiple verifications of an event, i'd run with it too! Why didn't Jason just say, "hey, that's what my SOURCES tell me, i trust them, they've not been wrong before or ever tried to mislead me... so i ran with it." Of course Leopold doesn't really have proof... too hard to obtain physical evidence of this magnitude. What bothered most of the stauch defenders of TO here is, i think, that people immediately began to assert that JL had problems of this sort in the past, he plaigerizes, blah, blah, blah, etc... Why not just say to JL, "hey, i don't believe you but i'll keep an eye out and if you're right this time i'll check out your work more often"? I too had noticed the nasty undertones when the TO article just broke... too many people "demanding" information from TO.

In the end the Rove indictment will actually affect NONE OF US. Maybe the DU members who own Liquor stores might see a temporary spike in sales... but otherwise, there's really nothing here to get anyone's jundies in a bundle. As for Will being nasty, well, i'm from NY... i've seen (heard,read) worse... and i gotta admit, though the language was coarse, the anger was accurate.

I just don't think Leopold was lying.