Send Young to JAIL! He ought to be bitten really, really hard, but who'd be surprised by any of the corrupt establishments ethical behavior? Can't wait to see what Young has to say when he can't just flip off a reporter. Great reporting TPM.

steve -- the sixty-second spot does leave room for some questionable manipulation, doesn't it?  but i think that's the idea of blogs like this one -- none of us really have the manpower or access to uncover all the truths in washington, but we can all start to dig and keep looking.  that, and file enough FOIAs to make certain heads spin. maybe in the next congressional budget we can set aside the standard six thousand for a coffee maker and another six thousand to actually figure out who's coffee-dating with the dc madam and not working down in washington.  glad you are sharing this episode on your blog.  let us know what else we should be doing.

Seems like we need something like political-csi.  On the tv show they go into a messy crime scene and find a hair or a fiber, take it into the lab, do some glitzy video of technology and microscope images and viola - they have found the bad guy.  Political blogs like The Next Hurrah seem to be the real CSI investigators who actually do all the rigorous time consuming analysis of documents they don't show on tv.   Others like Veracifier are more like the tv show, taking the glitzy approach with quick clips to get the point across.  I'm afraid that the Veracifiers are the ones that will get the biggest audience.  Too few people are willing to wade through all the details.  But wading thru the details helps one understand how they got there.  The glitzy 60 second spots can be manipulated by anyone to get whatever message they want across.  Anyway, as an Alaskan, I appreciate your posting this one and I've put it onto my blog.   

Great episode!