Who's the bigger bonehead?

Sen. Dick Durbin is whining and blaming the press for Howard Dean's foolish remarks.

"I think we all understand what's happening with you all (in the press)," Durbin said. "The right wing has got the agenda moving. Fox [News Channel] and everybody's got the agenda. It's all about Howard Dean. You've bought into it. You can't let up on it. You ought to be ashamed of yourselves."

It's just childish to skip over your own faults and your friends' and allies' to attack people you disagree with for essentially the same behavior. You ought to be ashamed, indeed.

What must really be galling for Durbin, though, is that he's right. Just exactly how is this a news story? What Dean says counts as news, though not of particularly high quality, but Democrats whining about the press? How is that news? Here's how reporter James Lakely and his editors wrote it:

"I think we all understand what's happening with you all," said Senate Minority Whip Richard J. Durbin, in remarks echoing Hillary Rodham Clinton's blaming a "vast right-wing conspiracy" for her husband's legal-ethical woes.

Uh, guys, do you think we have a little editorializing going on here? Who do you think you are? The New York Times?