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But not enough. Saying "well, there's no information about my political work in the Eighties for Republicans on Google, ergo, Google is suspect" does not mean that your individual from January happens to exist. Indeed, if he was some "high powered consultant" in D.C., wouldn't there be some record of his activities from the late nineties?

And Nick Danger and others didn't just use Google. They used NEXIS, they used WHOIS, they used several different Web and non Web-based search methods. Your friend from January just didn't show up. Your Republican Consultant is off playing Miniature Golf somewhere; meanwhile, we're supposed to buy into Wilkenson?

Then, today, this Mystery Man shows up who gives you (not Dana Milbank, not Andrea Mitchell, not even Bob Woodward, but you) a story that just happens to jive with your obvious dislike of the President and your opposition to this war. Oh, not only is Bush deceptive, but he gets frostily angry with people who won't agree with his cooked up evidence! "Why, dagnabbit, I'll find the Evidence when we get to Eye-Rack! Meanwhile, make it up!"
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The story in question did not quote a DC-based consultant (as hard as it may be to accept, some very good consultants don't live anywhere near Washington, which is a point in their favor).

This isn't the first time we have beaten other media to the punch on a story. As noted earlier, our stories on Clinton's women started a feeding frenzy. When Bill Powers of the National Journal called, his first comment was "damn, how did you get to them before we did?" The editor of U.S. News & World Report told Felicity Barringer of the New York Times that his reporters used Capitol Hill Blue as "an early warning sign of stories that were developing." I don't expect any of this to change your mind. You come from a partisan point of view. I don't. I also have nearly 20 years of working in and around Republican politics. That gives me sources that many reporters who have never worked the GOP side of the fence don't have.

You're welcome to your opinion but I won't get into a name-calling contest with you. Jim Robinson is a friend of mine and I worked to help him with the unjustified lawsuit against FR by the Post and L.A. Times. Trash me or CHB if you want but I do not, and will not, trash a fellow webmaster's site.

Doug