The Quality of the News Media

Oh Fox News, CNN, and for the most part MSNBC have been chugging the White House spin on the resignation of Porter Goss for all they are worth.

Why, I ask you, would the presence of Tony Snow decrease the lying, it only makes the lying seem like it is coming with a smile.

From the ever connected beat reporters of the NY Daily News:

CIA Director Porter Goss abruptly resigned yesterday amid allegations that he and a top aide may have attended Watergate poker parties where bribes and prostitutes were provided to a corrupt congressman.

Kyle (Dusty) Foggo, the No. 3 official at the CIA, could soon be indicted in a widening FBI investigation of the parties thrown by defense contractor Brent Wilkes, named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the bribery conviction of former Rep. Randall (Duke) Cunningham, law enforcement sources said...

..."It's all about the Duke Cunningham scandal," a senior law enforcement official told the Daily News in reference to Goss' resignation. Duke, a California Republican, was sentenced to more than eight years in prison after pleading guilty in November to taking $2.4 million in homes, yachts and other bribes in exchange for steering government contracts.

Goss' inability to handle the allegations swirling around Foggo prompted John Negroponte, the director of National Intelligence, who oversees all of the nation's spy agencies, to press for the CIA chief's ouster, the senior official said. The official said Goss is not an FBI target but "there is an impending indictment" of Foggo for steering defense contracts to his poker buddies.

Does it seem to anyone else that Dusty Foggo should be the name of some loud and crude lounge female singer from the 1950s?

On behalf of Democrats everywhere, I'd like to thank Lord Chimpy for taking so many chummy pictures with Goss as this scandal was coming down...


(AFP/Tim Sloan)