Miller and the Times Agree to Part Company

CLICK TO READ: Miller and the Times Agree to Part Company by Howard Kurtz, Washington Post

It's official. Judith (the self-proclaimed martyr of journalism) Miller has resigned from the New York Times. Not to be mean spirited, but, "Good riddance, Judy!"

"The negotiated agreement over her departure included a letter to the editor" writes Kurtz, "...in which Miller said she is quitting in part because 'I have become the news.'" Come on, Judy. How lame can you get?

Kurtz continues, "Even before she served 85 days in jail last summer for refusing to testify about her conversations with former vice presidential aide Lewis 'Scooter' Libby, Miller wrote, she had 'become a lightning rod for public fury over the intelligence failures that helped lead our country to war.'" No no, Judith. You had become a lightning rod for public fury over YOUR failures to report the news accurately instead of passing off neo-con propaganda from your "sources" as news.

"Miller," Kurtz continues, "whose prewar stories about whether Iraq harbored weapons of mass destruction were later disavowed by the Times as inaccurate, said she regretted 'that I was not permitted to pursue' the story further." Judith, honey, thank the Lord for small favors. If you had been allowed to keep writing God only knows how many illegal wars we might be fighting now. Iraq, my dear, was more than enough.

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