How much respect do you have for Beltway journalists today?

Here is a great article if you want to get really angry. Perhaps most infuriating is seeing these slimeballs who handed Bush the Presidency defend themselves -- like the Washington Post's Ceci Connolly, who should have been driven out of the profession, if that's what it is, claiming she was really just as tough on Bush as she was on Gore.

Here's how dishonest Beltway journalism has becomeby Eric Boehlert

Books about politics and the press don't come much more dishonest, or depressing, than the new tome hitting stores this week, The Way to Win (Random House). Written by corporate media bigwigs Mark Halperin, political director of ABC News and founder of its political newsletter The Note, and John F. Harris, national political editor of The Washington Post, the new digest -- it's their take on how to win the White House -- is already being toasted by celebrity journalists inside the Beltway, which in today's environment means the book politely re-enforces preferred conventional wisdom and graciously avoids asking tough questions about Republicans. The press corps also skates by in the eyes of Halperin and Harris, who continuously rewrite recent history in order to ensure that journalists shoulder little or no blame for D.C. pressroom disgraces such as Whitewater, the blatantly dishonest coverage heaped upon Al Gore's presidential campaign, and for the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth hoax that ensnared Sen. John Kerry's 2004 presidential run. . . .