She calls the New York Times piece earlier this week “a whole lot of ink wasted on nothing.” She argues that the congressman’s foes shouldn’t want this kind of bogus, “counterproductive” attack on him in the press. She concludes that “journalists must take care not to give [DeLay] even an inch of wiggle room to make the story about anything other than his own misconduct.” Which is sort of an odd perspective to take, unless the press’s job is to take DeLay down.