Olbermann/Conyers challenge White House

And apparently, so does the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Which shows how potentially dangerous it is to the administration when a high-level official goes 'off-message.' From Olbermann's post:

"Last Thursday, General Richard Myers, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Donald Rumsfeld’s go-to guy whenever the situation calls for the kind of gravitas the Secretary himself can’t supply, told reporters at the Pentagon that rioting in Afghanistan was related more to the on-going political reconciliation process there, than it was to a controversial note buried in the pages of Newsweek claiming that the government was investigating whether or not some nitwit interrogator at Gitmo really had desecrated a Muslim holy book.

But Monday afternoon, while offering himself up to the networks for a series of rare, almost unprecedented sit-down interviews on the White House lawn, Press Secretary McClellan said, in effect, that General Myers, and the head of the after-action report following the disturbances in Jalalabad, Lieutenant General Karl Eikenberry, were dead wrong. The Newsweek story, McClellan said, “has done damage to our image abroad and it has done damage to the credibility of the media and Newsweek in particular. People have lost lives. This report has had serious consequences.”

Whenever I hear Scott McClellan talking about ‘media credibility,’ I strain to remember who it was who admitted Jeff Gannon to the White House press room and called on him all those times.

Whenever I hear this White House talking about ‘doing to damage to our image abroad’ and how ‘people have lost lives,’ I strain to remember who it was who went traipsing into Iraq looking for WMD that will apparently turn up just after the Holy Grail will - and at what human cost."

Give credit to Olbermann for finally acknowledging that the GOP's interest lies in undermining "media credibility." And eternal shame to the gutless journalists out there who are rolling over and exposing their bellies to the men who want to stick in the knife.

UPDATE: Michigan Representative John Conyers has done it again-- socking it to the administration quickly and forcefully. What a guy! Here's a link to the letter he wrote:
http://rawstory.com/exclusives/byrne/conyers_newsweek_bush_517