The absolutely horrible part of this quote (via @amandacarpenter)?
“They need to deftly pin this on the tea partiers,” said the Democrat. “Just like the Clinton White House deftly pinned the Oklahoma City bombing on the militia and anti-government people.”
It’s that Jonathan Martin, Ben Smith, and/or Alexander Smith got this quote… and did not immediately tell this anonymous hero off. I understand the concepts of ‘off the record’ and ‘protecting sources:’ would that our reporting class understood the concept of ‘refusing to associate with lying scumbags.’
Well to be fair, resusing to associate with lying scumbags would eliminate, oh, about 100% of the long-term DC political class, give or take a few percent. That would make reporting on politics fairly difficult. But I get you.