Are you as frustrated as I am by he-said, she-said "balanced" reporting that in the New York Times that doesn't trouble to check whether the facts cited by either cite are actually, well, facts? Well, here's an article which isn't like that. It's about prospective Republican spin of the indictments of White House staffers that are likely to come out of Patrick Fitzgerald's grand jury any day now. It's not like the point-counterpoint stenography because, well, there isn't any counterpoint.

For example: the article cites Kay Bailey Hutchison as saying that the likely charges, on perjury concerning the outing of a covert CIA officer and her entire operation, are a "technicality". To which there is no counterpoint offered. Not from a Democrat. Not from a Republican. Not even from Sen. Hutchison herself, who had a very different view of the gravity of a perjury charge when Bill Clinton was accused of lying about the details of consensual sex...