Ann Althouse, law professor, writes about Boehlert’s criticism of her criticism of the Journolist. Good stuff:

Ha. But why is he on my case? “Ann Althouse continues to blog about Journolist; appears to have no idea what it was,” he says. Well, then, release the archive so I can cure my terrible ignorance. That’s all I want.
Althouse continues to post item after item about Journolist, despite the fact that… Althouse has no idea what Journolist was.
Stop me before I blog ignorantly again, Eric. Send me the archive. Or send it to Breitbart and collect $100,000 and I’ll get to it that way.
Boehlert goes on to quote me saying that if I were to sue a Journolist member for defamation — something I’m not inkleined to do — I would be able to get discovery into the archive. Eric B. says:
Althouse, a law school prof and very public blogger, was thinking out loud about suing the owner of Journolist to find out if any of the 400 journalists on the listserv ever wrote anything nasty about her in their private emails. (Ego much?)
Eric Boehlert continues to write about me like that even though he has no idea what the thing I wrote that he just quoted says. I cited a specific item of defamation against me that was published on the web and that remains there. If I were to sue based on that remark, I would be able to get discovery into relevant evidence about that claim. Moreover, I know that there are specific, related remarks about me in the Journolist archive, because that remark was tweeted, in Ezra Klein’s own words, “after I was alerted to her thread on Journolist.”
Boehlert imagines that one of my commenters nails his argument for him. Here’s that comment:
I would think a law professor might have a better grasp of this. But on what grounds would you seek the archives? To borrow a popular argument of the right, where in the Constitution does it say you have the right to know what others are saying about you, especially when you have no proof they are saying anything defamatory about you.
Clue to Boehlert: Not all law is in the Constitution. The tort of defamation is a matter of state law. The extent of discovery is a matter of procedural law. I don’t need a constitutional right. (Conceivably, there is a right that would bar my access to the archive, but I don’t need a constitutional right to discovery if I bring a defamation claim.)
So, Boehlert, your post is incredibly lame, but, as a law professor, I’ll give you a rewrite. I think Media Matters portrays itself as a champion of truth, so… see if you can get a little closer to something that feels a little more truth-y.