Paul Krugman, in a column on Ohio's voting irregularities, says:
But few Americans have heard these facts. Perhaps journalists have felt that it would be divisive to cast doubt on the Bush administration's legitimacy. If so, their tender concern for the nation's feelings has gone for naught: Cindy Sheehan's supporters are camped in Crawford, and America is more bitterly divided than ever.
I like that "tender concern for the nation's feelings" line. Not because of it's context in the Krugman column, but because of its applicability to one of Richard Cohen's. After Digby gave it an offhand reference the other day, a friend with Nexis access dug up and sent me the Cohen piece he was referencing. And, honestly, it's worse than you can imagine. I'm going to reproduce it below the fold, and I highly recommend you make the jump. The degree to which our pundits sold us out was pretty amazing. While reading, see if you can imagine George Will or David Brooks putting the same sort of column-length knife in their nominee's back:
