Easongate Post MortemsMichelle Malkin got up
a great post last night covering the entire history of
L'affaire EasonThe shock waves that have overwhelmed CNN started with a single blogger and reverberated worldwide. I agree with Rony Abovitz that there should be no joy in watching Eason Jordan's downfall. But there is certainly great, unadulterated satisfaction in seeing the collective efforts of the blogosphere--citizens and professional journalists among them--produce the one thing the MSM has for too long escaped in its walled-off world: accountability.I concur with her comment about not celebrating Eason's demise so much as celebrating the successful defense of the honor of our fighting men and women. Indeed, I look at this as something of a continuation of the Stop Kerry campaign. Why did Vietnam vets hate Kerry with such a passion? Because he impugned their integrity.
Captain Ed
has so much content that it's a bit counterproductive to highlight one single post. Just keep scrolling; there's lots there.
La Shawn Barber gets a mention in today's
Day By Day cartoon!
Easongate says,
Mission Accomplished!
Congrats to all the bloggers whose hard work brought down the man who slandered our troops, especially Rony Abovitz, whose post at the World Economic Forum blog launched the scandal, and Peter Cook at
Slubblog, who I believe is the one who located earlier remarks by Jordan that helped to establish that this was a pattern of behavior by the CNN head honcho, not just an isolated incident. When the book is written of this event (as inevitably it will), Peter's contribution will be considered key.
And, just so we don't turn this into a right wing-only party, let's remember that two very liberal Democrats, Senator Christopher Dodd and Congressman Barney Frank were among the very first to protest Jordan's remarks. We may not always be on the same side in other battles, but they did an honorable job here!
Molten Thought has
a great picture that sums up what happened.
