Maybe Gonzales Won't Recall His Painful Day on the Hill

Washington Post by Dana Milbank | Apr. 20, 2007 (Opinion)

Alberto Gonzales's tenure as attorney general was pronounced dead at 3:02 p.m. yesterday by Tom Coburn, M.D.

The good doctor, who also happens to be a Republican member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, made this clinical judgment after watching Gonzales suffer through four hours of painful testimony. The Oklahoman listed the cause of death as management failure and other complications of the Justice Department's firing of eight federal prosecutors. Full Story »

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by Mary McFadden - Oct. 1, 2008

This is a snarky opinion piece. Milbank thinks he has a sense of humor, but it only shows up when he writes about something that is no longer controversial, like Gonzales' ineptitude on the stand. Milbank begins with a pronouncement that is far from the assured outcome - that Golzales tenure is over - thus putting himself at the center of the piece, not the Attorney General or the Senate. It's a flaw in much of Milbank's work, he's the important one rather than placing the event or person he's covering at the center.