Bob Somerby responds to my previous post

Gotta love people who respond to e-mails. Bob Somerby of The Daily Howler is one of those people, and he got back to me after I sent him an e-mail suggesting that he follow up on my post about CNN's Ed Henry.

Here's what Bob e-mailed me back with (hope he doesn't mind having his private e-mails published!):

Interesting. I wouldn't hit him as hard on the "hypocrisy" matter because he
was accurately reporting what Reps werre saying, if in a rather selective
and repetitive way. On the other hand, it's also hard to tell from his
report which party put the tax snoop provision in:

HENRY: The second problem is, why did it get stalled? It got stalled because of that tax provision that was added by a congressional staffer at the last minute.No one has been able to track down exactly how it got in. But there's been a lot of bipartisan outrage about the fact that this provision would have allowed members of Congress to look at individual tax returns.

From that, you would think that a staffer of unknown party put it in, and both parties were trying to get it out. A very GOP-friendly recitation.

Yes, quite GOP-friendly.

By the way, if you don't read The Daily Howler, you are far behind the times.