McConnell skewers Wilson on the Senate floor

Senator Mitch McConnell, the Senate Majority Whip, issued a press release, which he read on the Senate floor, that absolutely skewers Wilson and the 16 words controversy. It was released on July 21, and among other things McConnell called on the major media to give the story of Wilson's lies as much coverage as they had the original accusations.

So far, the media hasn't taken him up on it. With the Democratic convention starting today, it's unlikely they will take up the charges in the next week, and it's equally likely that they will hope that the story disappears in the clutter of "other news". Both the press and the Democrats should be ashamed of themselves for ignoring the evidence and refusing to repudiate Wilson. But as Paul Krugman of the NY Times keeps insisting, "there is no liberal media". That's a fantasy concocted by the "vast right wing conspiracy". Joseph Goebbels would be proud.

(Another hat tip to Tom Maguire who has been relentlessly pursuing this story.)

Maguire thinks that McConnell has gotten results. I prefer to reserve judgment. Until CBS, ABC and NBC include the story in their primetime evening news segments, it will not have received the attention that it deserves. Can you see Brokaw announcing, "In a stunning reversal, the allegations that Joe Wilson leveled at the President have been proven completely false"?

A mention by Howard Kurz, on page A07 (pointed out by Instapundit) doesn't count. Until the media gives this story the same attention that did the original, they can not be considered to have covered it. The American public needs to know that the entire basis of the "Bush lied" story was fabricated.