The Real Blumenthal Scandal Is the Media

From Big Journalism:

In the wake of revelations by the New York Times that Connecticut attorney general Richard Blumenthal lied about serving in Vietnam, the Beltway media has already gone into its protective crouch: yesterday’s breathtakingly defiant and disgraceful press conference is being hailed as a win. From Politico, which ought to know better:

It reminds me of the MFM during the series of lies told by Bill Clinton when they actually admired him as an unusually good liar.  They were not particularly upset that Clinton had lied openly and even perjured himself.  They were in his corner and were not going to give him the treatment typically reserved for their enemies.  It was also, although they did not know it at the time, the beginning of the end for them.