Friday, September 01, 2006

"IT ISN'T ESPECIALLY INTERESTING"   [Byron York]

The blogger Atrios, whose real name is Duncan Black and who works for David Brock's media monitoring organization, and who in the past wrote passages like "'Twas the Night Before Fitzmas" and "Merry Fitzmas" (in which Black accompanied news of Lewis Libby's indictment with a picture of bottles of Champagne), is wondering why he's being asked for his reaction to the Richard Armitage/Plamegate news.  In an entry titled, "The Stupidest Trolls on the Internets," Black writes:

Yes, I have them, and they [trolls] seem obsessed with the fact that I haven't commented on the information that Armitage was apparently Novak's initial source on Plame. I haven't commented because it isn't especially interesting, it doesn't change the basic narrative at all — Armitage was widely suspected of being that person — and it doesn't magically nullify every other factual revelation about the case, including that Karl Rove was Matt Cooper's source on Plame.

Sadly, it seems, the stupidest trolls on the internet have taken over the Washington Post editorial board. What a bunch of hacks unworthy to even scribble their delusionary nonsense on the Wall Street Journal editorial page.

09/01 12:44 PMShare