“You guys need to — you need to stop this. It’s not an organic thing that’s just happening. You guys are behind it.”
That’s exactly what Holder said when asked by the Daily Caller to respond to calls for his resignation, blaming the DC for the growing number of calls for his resignation. And as you might expect, Media Matters falls into line to defend Holder against the Daily Caller.
But David Weigel from Slate, one of the more infamous Journolisters, comes to the defense of the Daily Caller, noting they are just doing their job as a news organization:
Via Josh Gerstein, I see Media Matters giving Holder a huzzah for calling the Caller out. But calling it out for what? Are news organizations not allowed to enterprise stories by asking people whether they think someone should resign? News organizations do this all the time. The Caller’s “sin” seems to be doing it with no back-up from the rest of the press. That’s just an indictment of the way that calls-for-resignation-hunts work. The polite thing seems to be to wait for a feeding frenzy, and be one of many news organizations asking random politicians if X should resign. When Anthony Weiner sends a bunch of women pictures of his hot bod, it becomes dignified for reporters to ask his colleagues whether he should quit. Maybe you can argue that Anthony Weiner’s digital life is a bigger deal than a bungled gun-walking plan that led to deaths, but I won’t.
Not only is the Daily Caller doing their job, but the job that apparently the MSM won’t do. Even Weigel notes early in his piece:
…the unfolding scandal over the ATF’s botched “Fast and Furious” program has not caught fire in the mainstream press. It gets covered, but it doesn’t get A1.
A1 obviously meaning front page treatment. And that’s the problem. If the MSM treated this story like they did with Valerie Plame or Bush’s firing of Justice Department lawyers, it would likely expose the fraud that is what we’ve come to know as the Obama administration. But instead they put it the “F” section, telling us that story doesn’t really matter and “F you” if you think it does.
All that said, I am glad to see Eric Holder feeling some heat about this because of the Daily Caller.
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