The Thrill of the Leak

Dallas Morning News | Mark Davis:

"We've been buried in anticipatory stories as reporters giddily anticipate what many of them see as The Next Watergate, the possible indictment of two lofty figures in the Bush White House. Doubters say this is much ado about nothing, a story completely contrived by those who drool at the prospect of scandal tainting this administration. What's an objective soul to do?"

Implied is that Mark Davis himself is that objective soul. Mark Davis says "let's all be honest with ourselves." But is he? He lays out the divide by talking about "giddy" reporters "drooling" of scandal. He offers no hint of the emotional or ideological motives that taint the President's defenders. He then goes on for the rest of the column casting doubt on and downplaying the seriousness of the potential charges against Rove and Libby. Fully identifying himself with the doubters he talked about in the third person to open his column. So much for objectivity.