Bloggers Take A Bow, But Bush Goes Free

Reuters and other news agencies are today crediting bloggers for relentlessly digging up the facts that exposed the CBS/Dan Rather memoes as forgeries. Bloggers like Joshua Micah Marshall and his many online sources deserve some serious credit.

The wierd thing, though, is that blogs are relentlessly digging up dirt on Bush all the time, yet 99% of it goes unreported. And even in this case, the larger story has been ignored while rabid attention focussed almost exclusively on the authenticity of the memos.

What about Bush's failure to complete his National Guard service, his refusal to take a medical examination, and all the other evidence that has been tabled in the past two weeks? Can we expect to see this dealt with seriously now in the mainstream media, or has "yesterday's news" once again conveniently become "today's fish-wrappings"?