Anybody who has read much of my blog knows by now that I generally love Salon. It's one of the first sites I read in the morning, and that morning ritual has gone on now for probably eight years. I'm a subscriber to the site and have given subscriptions as gifts. I strongly support their mission of independent journalism and appreciate that they mix it up with entertaining, lighter features.
All that said, could we PLEASE get off the George Allen watch? It's not that I love Senator Allen or want to see him get re-elected, but come on. Today's contribution runs with the ridiculous-sounding subhed: "A Lynchburg, Va., man says he remembers hearing about George Allen shoving a severed deer head into a mailbox during an early-'70s hunting trip."
Somebody remembers hearing something about something that somebody else did more than 30 years ago and it's news? To me, this smacks of Swift-boating. I know that one of the perennial problems that Democrats have in getting elected is that we're all too nice and too ethical, but is this the way it has to be?
George Allen--like a certain Montana Senator with whom we are all familiar--is doing a great job of hanging himself currently. We don't need a news source we rely on for solid investigative journalism to seem as if they are gathering the rope and rubbing hands with glee.
Edited to add: The story has now been confirmed, with its fully sourced version replacing the one I originally linked to up top. So mea culpa, and thanks to Jay for pointing out the confirmation. This Internet thing sure does move fast!