Howard Kurz in media watch has a nice compendium of responses to pundit-gate, which has dredged up some needed humor:
first this from Maureen Dowd:
washingtonpost.com: Media Notes Extra: "I still have many Christmas bills to pay. So I'd like to send a message to the administration: THIS SPACE AVAILABLE. I could write about the strong dollar and the shrinking deficit. Or defend Torture Boy, I mean, the esteemed and sage Alberto Gonzales. Or remind readers of the terrific job Condi Rice did coordinating national security before 9/11 -- who could have interpreted a memo titled 'Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States' as a credible threat? -- not to mention her indefatigable energy obscuring information undercutting the vice president's dementia on Iraq.'"