They won’t hear the New Jersey case and they won’t say why. Great call. Now the Republicans need to get on with the real task of persuading the voters to back Forrester. Not too hard a task.
KRUGMAN’S SECOND SCREW-UP: Having published an email as proof that Army secretary Thomas White was a “corporate evildoer,” without any firm evidence that the email was genuine, Paul Krugman has now gone one step further. He has violated the confidentiality of his source:
[A]lthough Leopold provided the e-mail on condition that his source, the former Enron executive, not be named, the Times published the name Friday after Krugman passed a copy to a colleague with the name only partially scratched out. “I am sick to my stomach … I have screwed up very seriously,” Krugman told Leopold by e-mail. Says Leopold: “The Times broke its promise to me… I felt like the Times news division sold me out.”
How many basic rules of journalism can you break in one story?
The Dish 