Judith Miller on The Daily Beast

The day after Christmas, one of my absolute favorite political sites, The Daily Beast, ran an article by Judith Miller called Shattered Peace about the violence in Gaza. Now, if you haven't been paying attention, Judith Miller was a reporter for the New York Times who has gotten her nose into all kinds of trouble. She once tipped off an Islamic organization that the US government was to search the premises the next day, she was jailed for protecting Scooter Libby, and wrote an article in which she refused to reveal her sources that claimed proof of WMD's in Iraq which was later used as proof by members of the Bush administration. After all the controversy, she left the New York Times and went to Fox News.

Anyway, the point of it all is that most of the readers of TDB were horrified to find her featured on the site, on the topic of brewing war no less. Out of 55 comments left by members on the article, most of them looked like this:

"We believe ANYTHING this woman writes !?! I'm sorry but her creditability has been completely lost. She was a publicist for the Iraq war effort. I can not believe anything she reports, even if it's true, because of her earlier efforts. I would suggest the Daily Beast never use her again."

"Judith Miller writing about the Middle East is like E-Coli writing about feces."

"I agree with the others here that publishing anything by this disgraceful woman is a bad mistake...I will never read anything she writes, and if The Daily Beast gives her a forum to write, I will stop visiting!

She has NEVER apologized for being one of the chief apologists for an occupation of Iraq that has resulted in the deaths and dismemberments of hundreds of thousands of people and destroyed a country!"

Needless to say, most people were not happy. This makes me wonder what the incentive for featuring her was? Hype for Nothing but the Truth? Hype for The Daily Beast? Actual endorsement for Judith Miller?

I will be curious to see if she shows up on the site in the future. Even more curious to see if the editor responds to the angry comments.