When Wankers Wank

So somebody writes in to the intersection of Pettifoggery Street & Alienation of Affections Avenue and the Grand Poobah his ownself, the Doughy Pantload makes a pronouncement about the lack of comment on Eric Rudolph from the various denizens of the bad neighborhood.

Rudolph is certainly newsworthy -- and if you google his name at NRO, you'll find it's come up a lot. But he's hardly representative of a news story nearly as huge, complex and interesting as al Qaeda and the war on terrorism. It'd be nice if folks didn't automatically leap to the conclusion that the lack of comment on something is an explicit endorsement of the most execrable position possible. Alas, it happens every day and it says more about the people leaping to conclusion than it does about those of us who are leapt upon.

Now this would be a valid point, were it not violated on that blog constantly. For anyone associated at "da Corner" to talk about leaping to conclusions is the ultimate in pot/kettelism.

I address specifically the use of Lucianne's issue of "al Qaeda" and leaping to conclusions. Let us go back a few months to how the Corner handled the laughable claim of Annie Jacobson and the case of "the Al Qaeda Marching Band" on Northwest Airlines on July 16, 2004:

MORE TERROR IN THE SKIES [KJL]
Michelle has spoke to Annie Jacobsen, the author of that piece. God bless her. (Both of them.) Keep watching Michelle's site. (In general, and on this.) It'samazing how in a 24-hour news cycle world a story like this only comes out because of a brave--and frankly, freaked--reporter.
Posted at 03:52 PM

TERROR IN THE SKIES SAGA [KJL]
Michelle Malkin reports that the Washington Post has been sitting on a story on that Women Wall Street article I linked to earlier--sitting on a story like this? Michelle's also been confirming lots of the details in the WWW story. This sounds like another thank-goodness-for-the-blogsphere moment.
Posted at 03:29 PM

There are some five other posts on the same date about this incident.

We know of course that Ms. Jacobson's claim was nothing more than sheer panic at seeing a group of arabic-looking men from Syria.

So on the weakest premise they go APESHIT, but Eric Rudolph, pretty much crickets.