Pulitzer Prize Winning Crap
Here is a fascinating blog piece from Ken Allard, a talking head military expert. Mr. Allard chronicles a long running and expensive investigation - actually a series of investigations - in which Democratic Senator Carl Levin latched on to a 2008 article published in the New York Times, which Allard says was "perversely unfair, misleading and badly slanted", and presumed Mr. Allard and his contemporaries guilty until proven innocent. Guilty, that is, of "conflicts of interest" and other misdemeanors.
The NYT article got the author a Pulitzer prize. Perverse indeed.
So, after three years, investigators turned up nothing after nothing. Sen. Levin refused to accept that there was nothing wrong except there was nothing wrong, and injected himself into the process in order to bake the outcome. He failed.
This tale almost has it all - a government official abusing his power, a classic example of NYT propaganda masquerading as 'news', getting an award for it, and absolutely no repercussions after the premise of the NYT article was proven false, not once, not twice, but three times. No repercussions for Levin, who wasted taxpayer equity on a wild goose chase, no repercussions for the New York Times, which published an article "badly slanted" and proven wrong, and no repercussions for the author of the article.
Giving the Pulitzer back? Not on your life. The left loves to reward failure.
It is, in the end, utterly pathetic.
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