Instapundit - I think we know what the video would have shown, now.
INDC - I'm actually shocked. I'm starting to believe in Hugh Hewitt's theories about blogs having the omnipotence to warp space and time, cure baldness and raise the dead.
TKS - I would have preferred that the tape be released, that the public have a chance to mull over his comments, and then let Jordan face whatever consequences were appropriate.
I have a feeling that the discussion of the "blogs as a lynch mob" is going to get a lot of coverage in the coming days
Could it be that Rony Abovitz's account was most accurate, that the tape would show Jordan making the accusation, only halfway backtracking, and many in the audience applauding his courage for making the accusation?
Did Jordan feel like the pressure to release the tape wasn't going to go away? (Oddly, in recent days, I thought the pressure to release the tape was going to go away.)
I still don't understand why Jordan would resign rather than call for the tape's release — there was always a chance that the public reaction would be, "oh, it's not bad as I thought it would be."
Unless, I guess, it was so bad, that cries of outrage would be inevitable... And the release of the tape would have turned this into a natural television story.
UPDATE: Well, that didn't take long. William Boykin, on the discussion board of Jay Rosen's blog: "Eason Jordan has just been tire-necklaced by a bloodthirsty group of utopian, bible-thumping knuckledraggers that believe themselves to be bloggers but are really just a streetgang. Time Warner/CNN is spineless if not completely corrupted by its shareholders' thirst for petro-dollars. It is now clear that all pretenses to journalistic 'objectivity' benefit the torturing, gulag-building blood-cult known Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld's Republican Party." |
