Finally, a journalist gets the message from this White House.
Atrios is right, Mitchell's outburst is multileveled pathetic. Good Lord, what took you so long?
To that observation, l'd like to add the famous exhortation of EM Forester in "Howard's End," "Only Connect." Or, get over yourself and do something.
This ain't just happening to you, honey. How 'bout noticing what's happening to the careers of those officers commanding the kids who spoke to ABC, or what happened to the gay, Canadian reporter who did his job, or what happened to Amb Joe Wilson, and maybe to his wife.
I'm glad Mitchell's outraged. She should be. And good for her for circulating an email telling other reporters what happened.
Take the next step Ms. Mitchell; do what you do best; do some reporting. (And let's remember just how good she was when she took over for Russert several weeks ago on MTP.) There's a story here about the very thin skin in which this White House has wrapped itself, and its preternatural impulse to be vindictive. This President ran as a "uniter, not a divider." How true or untrue has that turned out to be?
And how about us taking the next step?
Send an email to her attention, praise her MTP appearance, her going public on her treatment from the White House, and ask her to do a story about any of the topics mentioned above, with special emphasis on getting to the bottom of the Joseph and Valerie Wilson story.
Send copies to Nightly@NBC.com, HARDBALL@MSNBC.com, and MTP@NBC.com. You can find other contact information here.
Just a thought.
