Isikoff contrasted the BBC chief’s resignation with how neither Blair or Bush has resigned: “And I do have to say, you know, on the Tony Blair situation, I find it a little odd that it appears that the BBC reporter, [Andrew] Gilligan, got something wrong, and the head of the BBC has to resign as a consequence. But, at the same time, we know, or we appear to know based on what David Kay has found, based on what all the other pundits have come in, that Tony Blair and George Bush were wrong, you know, with some bigger stakes. They were the ones who were taking the world to war. So I’m not, I’m not saying that, that all the blame goes on the policymakers. Clearly, there’s a large amount of blame that goes on the intelligence community here, but look, you know, there is a thing called accountability.” Gilligan didn't "[get] something wrong," he lied, in an attempt to topple the government.
The day before, on the February 1 Reliable Sources, host Howard Kurtz raised the scolding of the BBC with Tumulty and Katrina Vanden Heuvel, Editor of the far-left The Nation magazine.
This is the same Katrina Vanden Heuvel who makes up lies on the fly about Republican politicians on talk shows. Last fall, on the Chris Matthews Show, I heard her say, "Arnold Schwarzenegger has hired illegals." When Matthews, to his credit, challenged her to prove her charge, she weaseled out with, "He knows people who have hired illegals," a charge so loose that it surely applied both to Schwarzenegger and to ... Vanden Heuvel.
