I'm just glad he's not president

I can't get too worked up about John Kerry's latest rewriting of history. I can't figure out why Meet the Press booked him. Maybe all the relevant people were busy.

And kudos to Barney Frank for challenging Eason Jordan' scandalous accusation that American troops target journalists. That Jordan still has a job is amazing to me, since he admitted to practically being an accomplice of the Saddam regime. Even if it were true, I'm not sure I'd blame the troops, given the distortions of their work by the MSM. "Journalist" is rapidly becoming a synonym for "reflexive anti-American."

Fortunately, I think our forces are better trained and disciplined than most reporters.

Update: According to the WSJ, when Franks called him on the charge, Jordan's response was "There are people who believe there are people in the military who have it out for journalists." How's that for sourcing? I keep wondering how a man as irresponsible as this keeps such a high profile job. It sure can't be the quality of his judgment.

You know, for all the talk about bloggers, it is really the arrogance and ham-handedness of the press that has brought it to this pass. You can't just dismiss people who see stupidity right out there in plain sight and write about it by saying that they can't be trusted because they have no editors. Where was Jordan's editor? The media have editors and has it made them more trustworthy? Only when the editors aren't as partisan and biased as the reporters. Unfortunately, they are often more so. Anybody who would give Howell Raines, Dan Rather or Eason Jordan control of a news operation is throwing away its credibility.

Blogs are, unlike the press, heterogeneous. They don't pretend to be evenhanded. Anybody who surrenders his judgment on current events to anybody, CBS or Instapundit, is not worthy to be a citizen in a democracy.