I was amused by the self-righteous ruckus around CBS's firing of four officials for their roles in the use of dubious documents about President Bush's National Guard Service. (Parts of that service, of course, remain wreathed in the mists of history.)

The former "Tiffany Network" was justified in canning these characters. But the gleeful sermonizing of some in the Bush administration, and the tongue-wagging of folks in the "profession" (or whatever you call it) of journalism, about the world-historical crime committed by CBS to further a story that few Americans seem to care much about demonstrated the most delicious hypocrisy.