Noes For News

At the end of an otherwise intelligent article on the Gates incident, we get this from E. J. Dionne:

Sgt. Crowley should not have arrested Gates, as the police implicitly acknowledged by dropping the charges.

You've got to be kidding. I'm not even going to explain the flaw here, I'm just going to shake my head.

PS We also get this:

...Obama was trying to make the case for universal health coverage [...] and it took only the single word "stupidly" to send everyone scurrying back to that "infinite regress of score-settling."

Dionne makes it sound like the press was nitpicking. The President of the United States, taking time out of an important press conference to discuss this issue, going out of his way to attack the actions of a local police department, and saying something that obviously means a lot to him, is major news.