Lots of grist for blogging from Instapundit today:

Soldiers in Iraq try to tell the story that the American press at home seems determined to suppress, and they get accused of fraud. Glenn Reynolds got sucked into the spin vortex, and, boy, did he hear from some readers! Fortunately, he's much more of a man than most journalists and immediately admitted his error. Someone wrote that he wouldn't make a professional journalist. Maybe that's why--he's not arrogant enough.

Then there's this Howard Kurtz column about the networks' difficulty in avoiding mention of their exit polls prior to the close of the polls in California. I suppose it is kind of silly to be trying to ignore the elephant in the living room, but I also don't see any reason to give the losers more of a reason to whine. They're going to sue, I'm sure, even while complaining about how Bush wasn't really elected, but why give them any more excuses? I could tell what was up, but I've never liked these announcements at 5:00 p.m. that they've projected a winner. Elections are fun because of the suspense of seeing the polling results come in. Why spoil it?

Lastly, there's the inevitable childishness of lefties calling for a Recall Arnold election, as if they didn't look stupid enough for making the Davis recall so popular by tripling the car tax and practically inviting illegal aliens to vote. Cruz Bustamonte couldn't even win among Latinos. What I find perplexing is the attitude that liberals are somehow morally entitled to have political power and anyone who opposes them is illegitimate. By this reasoning, democracy means electing Democrats, and anything else is an evil overthrowing of the proper order. No wonder they're so full of hate for Bush, and now Arnold.