WYFP with Capitol Hill Blue?

[Tamyrlin79]

Every time anyone posts an article from Capitol Hill Blue, SOME PEOPLE (not naming any names...) get their panties in a wad, and I'm just about sick of it. The recent article citing Bush as saying that the Constitution is "just a goddamned piece of paper" is a case in point. Click on any thread about this and find any number of detractor comments, despite the fact that this particular quote was sourced THRICE before publication. That seems pretty credible to me.

While I admit that it is often gossipy information, like Bush having temper tantrums, or Bush back on the bottle, or Bush becoming isolated and hating his staff, that doesn't mean it isn't true, particularly if it is sourced. I have yet to see proof from any CHB nay-sayers that

1) CHB is consistently wrong/unreliable,
2) That CHB's sources are madeup/unreliable
3) that it knows it is wrong and publishes such wrong info anyway and
4) how any of this, if true, is distinguished from similar behavior in stories at "mainstream" outfits like the New York Times and the Washington Post. They have been wrong (WMD anyone???), made up stories (Jason Blair?), etc. Yet, I don't hear clarion calls to not believe anything and everything read from those outfits. So, why the double standard? Why should I believe them and their anonymous sources and not CHB?

So, what gives with CHB-haters out there? I give it as much credibility as I give any other news source, be they Raw Story or the NYT or MSNBC. By all means, tell me why I'm wrong to do so. And, this time, try proving it rather than just reflexively dismissing anything emanating from CHB out of hand.

Short of that, please consider letting CHB be CHB in all its gossipy goodness. If thrice-sourced quotes isn't credible enough for you, then read something else, but don't demonize those of us who find it interesting, compelling, and (gasp!) credible. And try not to call them liars if you can't back it up and show how/where they are wrong. I'm just sick of the knee-jerk demonization here anytime something from CHB makes the news. Thank you.

/Rant

P.S. Some of you might want to consider whether it is to our political benefit to have this quote and other similar info "out there". While I don't think we need to stoop to the "anything goes" level of the Right, do you not think that it does our side "good" to have the media-pundits talking up quotes like this? IF CHB were the Washington Times or any other right wing rag of dubious credence, you can bet that it would be all over Drudge within the day, and talked about on Rush Limbaugh ad nauseam by the next. Even if it isn't true, is to to our benefit to be quiet about it, or to make a stir and have a media circus and force the White House to come out with a denial of the quote? Come on people. Wake up and smell the politics. It's only our country and the "goddamned piece of paper" that embodies it that we're trying to save here.