Admittedly Fox probably just aired the sexiest part of the David Corn interview from earlier, but this is a story–the Rove-Plame-Novak-et.al-one–that has a lot of unanwered questions around it and yet we are to believe conventional assumptions simply because they are the prevailing liberal conventional wisdom. To suggest that Cliff’s piece today is hacky–as Corn did on Fox–is ridiculous. Right or wrong in the end, Cliff clearly makes a logical case. And it’s a heck of a lot more fair than much of what I’ve been hearing and reading over the course of the last few days on this case.

I love too, that Corn says he used to respect Cliff because Cliff used to work at the NYTimes. Holy of Holies! Amazingly enough, Cliff’s proven himself to be a smart talented guy in other jobs since. Corn is dismissing Cliff because he used to work for the RNC. Presumably we are to believe if he were still at the NYTimes he would be objective person but can’t be now because of the RNC taint. I dunno, but I’ll take a partisan RNC-er, upfront about what team he’s playing for, over a reporter pretending to be objective (as MSMers so often are) anyday.

Cliff doesn’t need me to defend him, I’m just venting.