So while everyone gets their panties in a wad because the White House dared tell Newsweek that they should do a better job of cleaning up the mess they created, we have another story worthy of note.

Barbara Boxer has apparently decided she was going to tell the media how to cover the fillibuster debate.

That’s right, while the leftists both in the government and in the Whitehouse Press Corps (60% of whom vote Democrat down the line) express sheer agony that the White House was telling Newsweek, “You broke it, now fix it,” not one mention of Barbara Boxer telling reporters how to cover the fillibuster debate has been mentioned.

Here’s an excerpt from an article in Editor and Publisher:

WASHINGTON Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) called on newspaper editors today to provide more coverage of the so-called “nuclear option” being considered by the Republican leadership of the U.S. Senate, which would eliminate filibusters on judicial appointments, arguing that newspapers have as much to lose as the Democrats do if this traditional minority power is eliminated.

“You need to explain why a vocal minority in the Congress is essential for a democracy and why it is essential for you,” she told several hundred editors at the opening session of the American Society of Newspaper Editors conference here. “This fight is really your fight as well.”

When asked later what newspapers should specifically do to highlight the issue, Boxer pointed to both news coverage and editorials explaining the effect of a limited filibusters. “I think editorials would be very helpful,” Boxer told E&P. When people hear filibuster, they don’t get what it really means.

Are you getting this folks? Is any of this sinking in? While the left handwrings about Newsweek and the White House attempts to control the press, Senator Boxer is out there urging editors to cover the story from her point of view. Not suggesting. Imploring.

So why, I ask you, is the fact that the White House asked Newsweek to really do something to fix a mistake it made a story, and Barbara Boxer suggesting coverage angles to a room full of editors not?

Well duh, folks. It ain’t rocket science.

Source: Editor and Publisher Magazine via Rushlimbaugh.com