The Sounds of Silence

YOU ARE VISITING THE OLD MALKIN(S)WATCH. THAT'S FANTASTIC. PLEASE VISIT THE NEW MALKIN(S)WATCH WHEN YOU GET A CHANCE.

Not every blogger should be required to comment on every issue, but I find it illuminating that Michelle hasn't weighed in on the Armstrong Williams payola issue. In fact, the deafening silence from much of the right is entertaining, to say the least.

Update: Clearly we're getting to Ms. Malkin (Okay, not really). Not one hour after our post comes this post:

Rod Paige should be fired. Those who came up with this disgusting scheme should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Any other pundits who accepted money from the Bush administration, whether from the Education Department or any other bureaucracy, should come forward now and disclose. And then they should immediately return the money.

Well said. I notice she is very careful - "Rod Paige", "the Bush administration, whether from the Education Department or any other bureaucracy" - to help pass the buck before the surface of how high this goes is even scratched. I trust that, if it's found to go to the highest level, she will repeat this admonition even to President Bush:

Grow some principles, for God's sake.

On the day she addresses a comment as explicit as that directly to W., with no mitigating language preceding it, this blog will close its doors, having been made unnecessary.

MalkinWatch looks forward to a long and fruitful tenure.