This needs to be said and repeated until someone begins to get it. Thanks to Hunter at the DailyKos

Having Ann Coulter on your network debating the “meaning” of the Fitzgerald investigation isn’t relevant. It isn’t useful. It’s like watching a dog crap to music. There’s some percentage of the country that would probably tune in to that too, but it doesn’t make it “news” or even “analysis”.

And you can repeat that statement, to a less overtly crass degree, for nearly every Republican and Democratic professional spinner, on both sides. During this particular week, we have actual news. It means something, something important. We don’t know all the facts yet, or even whether or not a man is guilty or innocent, and finding out is deadly serious business. So how about we start finding out the facts? How ’bout the media start, instead of turning this story into the same Rolodex-emptying game of Hollywood Squares that producers have managed to turn every major national story into, these last ten years?

Interviewing reporters who have been breaking new information in this story — I’m sympathetic to that. Interviewing longtime Washington hands who can shed light on what it means to have something be “classified”, or legal figures who can explore where the case could go, by all means. But there is something flatly wrong about the ongoing, incessant Pundit-O-Matic that presumes that just because someone is a partisan, they have relevancy to this story.

I’m sick of Republican pundits expressing doughy vindication that there is, according to them, only one potential felon in the White House. That’s the standard, now? “Just one felon” is fine? And it’s only for a cover-up, and not the “actual crime”, so hell, that’s just dandy? That’s the damn standard, nowdays?

Also missing from all this discussion is a counter to the “just one felon” argument, or that it was all an innocent attempt to defend the President. For crying out loud, this guy was Assistant to the President, Chief of Staff to the Vice President and Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs and they want us to believe he’s this incompetent? Their defense is that some of the most powerful people in the administration are that dense and incompetent? They really think this is a good thing?