A depressing email from a reader (I’m not as bummed out as him, though I generally agree that Milbank’s stuff has refined the art of journalistic cheap-shots to an unprecedented level):

After this weekend, I think we all need to get used to the sound of
President Kerry as depressing as that is. Never did I think I would see
the Press sink to the level they are at. They have stopped even
pretending to be journalists and are now full fledged Dem hacks, and
they don’t care who knows it. Dana Milbank appears to be a Krugman
disciple, and he is supposed to reporting actual news, not writing
opinion columns that belong in MoveOn.org. Milbank’s pieces on the PDB
are just unbelievable. W is wrong on everything according to the Press,
the Press is politicizing the war and 9-11 to no end (see Bush-hating
9-11 widows, they went to Afghansistan to prevent the war for pete’s
sake, but does the press mention that, of course not), good economic
news is on a need to know basis and course no one needs to know about
that in an election year (can you say Kerry boom starting Dec 04), and
Kerry’s incredible baggage is swept under the rug (He was the leader of
a group and was at the meeting where they took a vote on assasinating
sitting U.S. senators, he said U.S. soldiers committed war crimes in
Senate testimony, and he went to Paris to negoitate with Hanoi, which is
illegal). Very, very depressing.