Correction

Just so you know I'm not trying to steal anybody's work, I have emailed a correction to Jack Shafer at Slate for this perhaps fortuitous, perhaps problematic, mention of YWA.

Bloggers Rip My Flesh (Feb 1, noonish, ET) Beating me to the Miller story were The Left Coaster ("Is The Bush Administration Working To Install Ahmed Chalabi In New Iraqi Government?"), Eschaton ("Here we have a New York Times reporter going on the record saying that according to a source, the Bush administration was in talks with Chalabi about a position in the new Iraqi government."), and You Will Anyway ("I wouldn't be surprised if Allawi is marginalized by these elections and the U.S. puts its chips on their old partner-in-crime, Ahmed Chalabi. American officials are already starting to 'reach out' to Chalabi, as New York Times reporter Judith Miller put it on MSNBC's Hardball, offering him all sorts of plum positions in the new Iraqi Cabinet.") Xymphora, taking Miller at face value, riffs off of Eschaton: "Whether it be Baghdad or Cleveland, the people running the United States have developed a certain expertise at running crooked elections staged as a series of televised photo-ops intended to disguise what is really going on." Vegacura asks, "Why, oh why, is Judith Miller still employed as a reporter by the New York Times?" The Sorest Loser: "It's entirely possible that our attempt to discredit [Chalabi] was a mere ruse to make him more popular." The War in Context: "Though Judith Miller doesn't know what a reliable source looks like when it comes to intelligence, there's little question that she has is well informed about the workings of the Bush administration."

(Feb. 1, 3:45 p.m. ET) Media in Trouble: "While I love the fact that Atrios and Shafer are barking up Judith Miller's tree about the Ahmed Chalabi bomb she dropped on Hardball. They seem to be barking up the wrong tree. I realized this because I was watching my DVR recording of the Capital Gang last night and noticed that they had dropped that bomb first. … I wrote them maybe they will link me." The Scooter's Freakin' Wicked Weblog: " … there are a few questions that someone should ask Miller. First, who was her unnamed source? Was it, in fact, Ahmad Chalabi?"
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What I said to Mr. Shafer in essence is that I don't deserve the credit for that quote, because it actually came from Justin Raimondo, and I was just quoting him. I guess my quoting method is still not clear. Maybe that's why people sometimes comment that this is a good blog. They think I'm coming up with the stuff I'm quoting.

Oh well....in the words of a famous president: "Sometimes words have consequences you don't intend them to mean."