And yet…there will be no justice in this case.

I have the depressing sense that this will go down as another “Bush Sr. flummoxed by supermarket checkout”/”Al Gore claims to invent internet” urban legend that will be believed by many many more than disbelieve it.

And I have the sinking feeling that this is exactly how Josh Marshall and Joe Wilson wanted it to be. I’ve since reconsidered my admonitions to DennisThePeasant about rhetoric in an earlier thread, and I now think that Marshall is about as disgusting and dishonest as Wilson is. Wilson is caught, compromised, trapped – he can’t disown his statements without committing a form of public psychological suicide. But Marshall is continuing to defend this not because he believes it, but rather because he believes in nothing except harming the opposition, truth be damned.

I’m trying to find an alternate interpretation. I’d be open to one were someone to offer it.