Yglesias Award Nominee

"Not that Scooter Libby has asked for my advice, but I also must say that that the ardor of his supporters including, I believe, NR has hurt him, and hurt the conservative movement, in very fundamental ways.  As to him personally, all this passionate rhetoric about his heroic service to the United States, how the investigation should never have happened, and how he got unfairly singled out and screwed (all of which I agree with) would be fine if it weren't obscuring something fairly important:  Lying to the FBI and a grand jury is a very bad thing, even if we all think it was an unworthy investigation," - Andy McCarthy, NRO. Read the whole post.