Trying To Spin Defeat

A number of leftbloggers, overwhelmed by this week's avalanche of documentary evidence of Bush's service in the Air Guard, have resorted to punting to a screed by Calpundit that, supposedly, picks holes in the White House's doc dump.

I was going to fisk Calpundit within an inch of his life - and I still may, if time permits - but Baldilocks, a USAF Reservist herself, does it better.

Money quote, including a pull from Calpundit's Kevin Drum:

…..the mainstream media needs to at least understand what evidence is currently available and what its possible interpretations are.” [Bold mine]

Why am I not surprised to find out that the “mainstream media” cannot manage to dig up one of their number who is/was a Guardsman/Reservist? (I can help them: FoxNews reporter Greg Kelly is a Marine Reservist. Wonder if he’s been asked about this matter? Heh.)

Interpretation? What is there to interpret? The document shown isn’t some obscure scroll written in a long dead language, found during an archeological dig at the foot of the Himilayas. It’s an objective document showing the amount of attendance points that President Bush earned during the last part of his ANG stint--the part that a certain segment of the population just can’t get out of their minds.