WSJ pulls a Fox

The Wall Street Journal pens a ridiculous editorial and guess what? The hubub over Prosecutor Purge here in Washington state rates a mention.

Take sacked U.S. Attorney John McKay from Washington state. In 2004, the Governor's race was decided in favor of Democrat Christine Gregoire by 129-votes on a third recount. As the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and other media outlets reported, some of the "voters" were deceased, others were registered in storage-rental facilities, and still others were convicted felons. More than 100 ballots were "discovered" in a Seattle warehouse. None of this constitutes proof that the election was stolen. But it should have been enough to prompt Mr. McKay, a Democrat, to investigate, something he declined to do, apparently on grounds that he had better things to do.

That's funny, the Washington state GOP chair at the time says McKay is a Republican.

"I thought it was part of my job, to be a conduit," Vance, who now operates a consulting business, said in a telephone interview. "We had a Republican secretary of state, a Republican prosecutor in King County and a Republican U.S. attorney, and no one was doing anything."

You know, after about the hundredth time that Fox or other right-wing organs "accidentally" mis-identify someone's political party when it suits their purpose, people start to catch on. The bag of tricks is getting mighty empty.