The words of Teddy Rooseveldt

"In “Pilgrim’s Progress” the Man with the Muck-rake is set forth as the example of him whose vision is fixed on carnal instead of on spiritual things. Yet he also typifies the man who in this life consistently refuses to see aught that is lofty, and fixes his eyes with solemn intentness only on that which is vile and debasing. Now, it is very necessary that we should not flinch from seeing what is vile and debasing. There is filth on the floor and it must be scraped up with the muck-rake; and there are times and places where this service is the most needed of all the services that can be performed. But the man who never does anything else, who never thinks or speaks or writes, save of his feats with the muck-rake, speedily becomes, not a help to society, not an incitement to good, but one of the most potent forces for evil.
There are, in the body politic, economic and social, many and grave evils, and there is urgent necessity for the sternest war upon them. There should be relentless exposure of and attack upon every evil man whether politician or business man, every evil practice, whether in politics, in business, or in social life. I hail as a benefactor every writer or speaker, every man who, on the platform, or in book, magazine, or newspaper, with merciless severity makes such attack, provided always that he in his turn remembers that the attack is of use only if it is absolutely truthful. The liar is no whit better than the thief, and if his mendacity takes the form of slander, he may be worse than most thieves. It puts a premium upon knavery untruthfully to attack an honest man, or even with hysterical exaggeration to assail a bad man with untruth. An epidemic of indiscriminate assault upon character does not good, but very great harm. The soul of every scoundrel is gladdened whenever an honest man is assailed, or even when a scoundrel is untruthfully assailed."

Are we too negative?
I just had a look through several conservative blogs. One common thread was that there was nothing to the Libby story - and then went to town on the Libby story.
Maybe we should forget about the Libby story, at least until it becomes a story.
Maybe we should concentrate on some of the good things going on.
How goes the war in Iraq? I've seen several comments that only the bad things are reported by the MSM. I don't see any of the good things reported, not even by the servicemen blogs. Somebody out in the blogosphere must have some good news.

The one thing I have always hated about the MSM is that it is a bad news transmitter. No good news ever seems to be worth reporting, unless someone else got hurt by it. Why can't someone connected to the sources out there start sending us some heartening news about the Bush government? Lord knows we could use some.