Downer Street?Tim Cavanaugh, an Iraq war opponent says that the
left has finally gotten its wish, and everybody's suddenly looking into the Downing Street Memo. Unfortunately they're going to be digging for that pony a very long time:
To the extent that the Downing Street Memo had real value, it was as a meta-story. As long as we were confined to talking points about how the media were ignoring the Downing Street Memo, it was smooth sailing. In fact, the media-silence angle was the most interesting part of the story, yielding hilarious gems like Eric Boehlert's survey of newsrooms in Salon, wherein the hard-charging newshound editors at several major newspapers concede that they dropped the ball on this story because the wire services didn't explain that it was important. As potential rather than kinetic energy, the Memo had talismanic power.But there is an upside from the Left's standpoint:
One interesting DSM bright spot has been identified by Los Angeles Times editorial page editor Michael Kinsley, who speculates that the left has shown unexpected mojo by keeping the Memo alive these many fallow weeks.Yeah, baby!
