Mickey Kaus’ ignorant assumptions about how liberals think are on full display today :

Miller wasn’t just perceived as in cahoots with neocons in foisting the war off onto the public. She was doing it from within the New York Times, which the Left correctly perceives as one of “its” institutions. As a traitor within the liberal camp, she has to be expelled and punished, in a way she wouldn’t be punished if she’d been an equally mistaken and influential reporter for National Review. The host body rejects her.

I dunno about you, but this liberal has never felt an affinity for the NY Times more than I have for any other news organization with a reputation (deserved or not) for honest, unbiased reporting. I consider the Washington Post and CNN to be equally credible, so the idea that the only problem liberals would have with Judy Miller is that she sullied our paper is sheer lunacy. If the right-wing in this country is so insecure about their own beliefs that they consider any newspaper that strays from the party line as “liberal”, then so be it. But don’t project your paranoid delusions on us.