Fizzling Franklingate

Ed Lasky and Richard Baehr, The American Thinker: “Given what little is known here, caution would have been advisable on the part of any reporter considering going public with fragmentary information. But CBS chose not to hold its fire until facts, rather than gossip or leaks, were presented to it….In Teheran, the mullahs must be smiling about all of this.”

David Frum, National Review: “Can we pause to consider what an amazing non-story all of this is?…by cleverly shopping it to journalists who were eager to strike a blow at the Bush administration, a fizzle of a story was (at least temporarily) transformed into a one-day wonder.”