A Thousand Cups of Tea

But it appears the New York Times finally noticed the Downing Street Memos.

So the New York Times is running a big story headlined Bush Was Set on Path to War, Memo by British Adviser Says, as if it’s news. The only real news here is that they’re treating it like it’s news. As it happens, The Guardian covered the story in February, as did a whole lot of bloggers, many of whom had been covering a little thing known as The Downing Street Memos for, ahem, quite some time. Suffice it to say, the reaction to the Times’ piece is a bit, uh, jaded in some quarters.

Well, add me to that list. Here is a list of alternative titles SSis could have used for that post:

“Dawn Breaks on Marblehead!”

“NY Times:I Guess If That Dog’s Not Gonna Bite, We Should All Kick It…”

“Hello? Lefty Blogosphere? You Were Right… We were schmucks. Don’t Hate Us, ‘k?”

“Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy DONE with Beating Up WaPo… Times Throws Up Hands in Pre-emptive Surrender”

I think it would feel better to be right if the whole thing wasn’t such a disaster over there.