What's All the Fuss?

The way the drive-by media is hyperventilating over eight U.S. attorneys having been dismissed, you'd think we're in the midst of a Constitutional meltdown. I could see if they all had the goods on President Bush and he decided to dismiss them in the dead of night. But really, if I have to see Charles Schumer and Patrick Leahy gravely intoning how the republic cannot continue on, I'm going to vomit.

To put things in perspective, all you need to know is in 1993, Bill Clinton had Janet Reno summarily dismiss 93 U.S. Attorneys, which, while suspicious on its face, is perfectly legal. And what was the media reaction? They had no problem with it, as noted by Brent Bozell.

Brit Hume also takes the media to task.

“News stories reporting that the Bush administration had considered firing all 93 U.S. attorneys across the country failed to mention that that is exactly what Bill Clinton did soon after taking office back in 1993. The only sitting U.S. attorney Clinton did not cashier was Michael Chertoff, now the Bush Homeland Security Secretary. At the time Chertoff was U.S. attorney in New Jersey and then Democratic Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey intervened to save Chertoff's job. None of this was noted, even in passing, in front-page stories today in the New York Times and the Washington Post, or in the AP's story on the subject. By the way, the mass Clinton firings generated some news stories, some complaints from Republicans in Congress, but no congressional investigations, and not a word from Chuck Schumer.”

Sweetness & Light further exposes the rank media hypocrisy.