Establishment Media Starting To Get It?
Via Instapundit, we found at least one high-rent journalist for a major publication finally beginning to at least consider that the Gov. Rod Blagojevich scandal might just mean something larger than one crooked politician with bad hair and bad manners.
After spending several paragraphs inexplicably defending the SEC’s inability to catch shyster Bernard Madoff, the Atlantic Monthly’s Megan McArdle takes a small, tremulous step towards seeing Blajo for what he really is–a common, if particularly noxious, species of pond scum amid the vast, suppurating swamp that is our pay-to-play government:
On a somewhat related tangent, here’s the question that really bothers me about Blagojevich: what if the reason that he thought he could get away with it is that a lot of other politicians he knows about have?
Megan, we see from your bio that you live in Washington, DC. May we suggest a convenient way to find these Blago-like politicians that you suspect are out there somewhere? To paraphrase CCR, ‘Doo, doo, doo, just look out your back door.’ Or your window. Or, better yet, take a little stroll up on Capitol Hill. That place is crawling with ‘em.
PS: When we referenced the Creedence Clearwater Revival song “Lookin Out My Back Door” above, we failed to remember that it includes a strangely relevant line about “troubles Illinois” and declares “Today I’ll buy no sorrows.” Was John Fogarty channeling Rod Blajojevich all those years ago? If so, we wonder what all that stuff in the song about elephants playing tambourines is about?
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