Snide Little Stories

I usually don't read the Washington Post fashion pages, but I do remember the amazing nastiness of the writer who attacked the wife of new nominee for the Supreme Court John Roberts for dressing their young children up nicely at the White House announcement.

Betsy's Page has more on Robin Givhan's snide little stories, which have earned her a Pulitzer Prize from her journalist cronies. It's all politics, all the time, where the most maliciously silly writing is elevated to serious journalism:

The writer whose fashion criticism rated a Pulitzer.

When you add in the Pulitzers given to Dana Priest for her leaked story on secret prisons for terrorists and James Risen for his stories on the NSA surveillance program, both stories that served to raise big hooplas in the press and among the Democrats, one conclusion seems inescapable.

Let's face it. These were the Pulitzer equivalents of the Nobel Peace Prize for Jimmy Carter.

You have to wonder if these mainstream journalists really understand the world we live in. Or appreciate the quiet sacrifices real public servants make.