Furtive Glances

A quick look around, as I get down to business this Monday morning.

• Rick Moran at Right Wing Nut House investigates some of the CIA complainants making waves in the Plame Name Game.  He notes that credibility of the three he highlights, which should be the currency of CIA intelligence experts, is in dangerously short supply.
• Staying with the Plame Name Game, Will Franklin at WILLisms.com highlights some "egregious" comments by David Gregory of NBC News.  Says Will:
  • if we barely believe you when you report hard facts, why on earth would we believe your partisan preening, your faux outrage, your overbearing editorializing, and your hysterical rumor-mongering?
• Mark Steyn, in his inimitable style, "eulogizes" multiculturalism in The Australian.  Multiculturalism should mean the blending of spicy and flavorful ingredients in the great melting pot of society, with each ingredient maintaining its distinct flavor.  Instead it's become abhorrence at recognition, and marking, of those ingredients that not only fail to blend, but are openly antagonistic.  Like Mohammed Atta.  (HT: Chrenkoff)
• Pennsylvania, if there's any justice at all, should be in need of a new Lieutenant Governor.  Not for being anti-war (she is), but for being a politically-driven, insensitive and disrespectful bint not worthy of the position.  Color me unimpressed with the response thus far of Governor Rendell, as well.  Support the troops, indeed.
• Chrenkoff notes the presence of a vocal radical Muslim Imam in Australia.  The July 7 terrorist bombings in London were ... the Americans responsibility?

UPDATE: I usually don't update the 'Furtive Glances' posts, as they tend to stand by themselves.  But the Pennsylvania Lieut. Gov. story keeps percolating.  Iowa Voice has posted the text of the 'apology' from LG Knoll, and it's quite interesting.  In it we learn that she didn't arrive in time for the church services to express her condolences to the widow, which is inappropriate in itself.  If it was important enough to go it was certainly important enough to get there on-time.  In addition, however, there is no mention in the letter of the anti-war comments she made.

As I teach my children, the first part of an apology is understanding and acknowledging that you did something wrong.  This apology lacks at least the latter, and, if I'm any judge of horseflesh, likely the former also.  What she appears to have, instead, is an understanding that someone is upset, for which she apologized.  That is different.

Please read Jack Kelly's column.

UPDATE: Last one.  Wizbang notes that there are others who are not so kind to the families of soldiers who lost their lives.