Keep ‘Em Both Away From the Court
But wait–it’s Miller nobody trusts. She talks a great game–Miers is definitely the quiet one–but her words ring hollow. At the Society of Professional Journalists convention the other day she said, “As long as our confidential sources are acting in good faith, we have a duty to protect them.” But who thinks I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby Jr. was acting in good faith? Or as she told the Senate Judiciary Committee when she testified this month on behalf of a federal shield law, “Confidential sources are the life’s blood of journalism….As I painfully learned while covering intelligence estimates of Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction, we are only as good as our sources. If they are wrong, we will be wrong.” What does that mean? Garbage in, garbage out? Why should we want a federal law to protect a reporter’s right to be duped? Arlen Specter, chairman of the committee, must have been scratching his head when he heard that.
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Mr. McGuire, do you believe in God?
“I employ them every day in the sports pages of the Daily Reflux.”
May I address the court? I have established that Mr. McGuire, unlike my earlier witnesses, can be accused of no thinly veiled agenda to advance religious doctrine. I suggest that he’s a man of no spiritual dimension whatsoever.
