The BBC pulls a Frank Rich.

I expect to see a lot of these stories about how journalism has “gotten its spine back” — by which they mean that journalists are acting like a bunch of know-it-alls to whom the solution to every problem was obvious all along. Didn’t we see a lot of these stories when the press started howling at Scott McClellan over “Plamegate”? And what about the media lovefest for Cindy Sheehan during “Vacationgate”? Hasn’t this press been hostile to the President all along? (tip: MB reader Virginia R.)