Joe’s Dartblog was the first place to make public the full PDF of the investigation into the sad, felonious and humorous document-destroying activities of the Sandman, released just in time to be buried amongst important stuff like everyone’s heartfelt editorial on the true meaning of Christmas.
Having read it there first, I figured everyone had it, but I was wrong:
What annoyed me  again, just a little bit  is that Pajamas Media, at 10:35 in the morning on Friday, December 22, posted the full report as well, making its biggest ‘exclusive’ play to date. Pajamas e-mailed major online political writers, informing them of the scoop. And Pajamas reporter Richard Miniter wrote the preface to the document, whose flavor is this: “PJM is making public on this website for the first time the report by the Inspector General’s office…â€Â
I had that document nearly a halfday earlier  an eon in Internet time. I know this is a silly thing to whine about. Making the document public, after all, is the important thing. Not who does it. Something is in there that caused The Washington Post and CNN not to upload the raw PDF to their respective websites. But count me a member, I suppose, of the old fashioned media: I want credit.
Do the right thing, Pajamas Media, and give Joe the credit for the webscoop, or I’ll write another heartfelt piece about the true meaning of Christmas, so help me God.
Correction: Per Jose’s comment, Joe had the 10-page memorandum on the interviews with Soxy Berger, whereas PJM had the entire 41-page report.
Its’ not the gift, but the thought that counts.
Christmas cheer to all, and to all a good night.
Someone has clearly never been given a Mercedes Benz SL600.
Happy Birthday, Jesus!
Christmas Haiku
Scotch Pines, hack, hack, hack
Thirty-two bit Nintendo
Happy Birthday God
Sorry to spoil your fantasy Pablo, but Jesus was born in early October. What we celebrate was known as Saturnalia and was grafted to the Holy Day by Constantine the Great(?). Nevertheless, the spirit
apropos of Jesus survives in some small measure in isolated households. Hope yours is one of ‘em.
Mickey Kraus is giving credit to Pajamas Media.
This is why the Wheatstone bridge isn’t named after its actual inventor, Crystal.
Although, at least Wheatstone tried to correct the record.
lonetown,
That was Christie, not Crystal.
If I lose my contract with PJM and need to shut down, send your cards and letters to Dan.
Jeff, if this site isn’t about speaking truth to pajamas, what is it about?
I assumed Jeff’s comment was (partly) in jest, and I also assume Dan’s retort was equally (partly) intended to nudge Jeff in the funny-bone. It sure tickled mine! It’s a classic.
Dan’s entire piece frames an important point in blogs as well as the MSM: professional and personal integrity.
I guess PJM is finding it hard to acknowledge that Joe got there first. But integrity should be hard. If it were easy – if everybody had it automatically – it wouldn’t be worth anything. If having high standards and holding one’s self to them were not an effort, then they have no meaning.
PJM has an opportunity here. An opportunity to show the strength of their character.
In the Special Olympics if it’s a close race and the second place person starts beating himself in the face for lack of the gold, hell, they just give him a gold medal too and move on.
Gentlemen, I’m afraid we’re talking about two different documents here:
What Pajamas Media has is the full OIG report of the investigation, a 41-page pdf document.
What Joe’s Dartblog has is the memorandum of interview with Sandy Berger, a 10-page pdf document. That’s only a part of the investigation and most definitely not the whole thing, as PJM did.
You can easily check this is you download and compare both documents.
Hope this clears things up before there’s a blogostorm in a blogoteacup.
Jose,
My apologies. It appears you are right. My bad. Please consider my criticisms humbly retracted.
Ahem…
Someone apparently hasn’t seen Little Drummer Boy. Christmas is totally Jesus’ birthday, which just goes to show how unselfish He was. You just know that all of His birthday presents came wrapped in snowman or Santa Claus paper. And He probably also got Christmas cards with “…and Happy Birthday” penciled in on them. He definitely took one for the team there.
Joyous Festivus to all, and to all a good night!
Jose,
Thanks for that. My mistake. Two scoops, even better.
Gee, that’s exactly what Mr. Rezko said to me…!