I don't make the news, I just enforce it.
What's at issue there is whether the DNR actually issued such a directive. The J-S says so but goes into no detail and doesn't quote a source. Since the TPM story does go into how that interpretation came about, that's more persuasive at this point.
The "Muckraker" is less radical and does make more effort to do real journalism than most decidedly leftwing sites on the internet--I put it somewhere in the same neighborhood with Huffington Post. And I give Josh Marshall credit for doing some honest to goodness research now and then. But the TPM invites no commentary from anybody who doesn't voice the liberal message and has yet to take on a liberal cause with the same diligence or depth that it takes on almost every prominent conservative issue. For that reason I have to consider their conclusions about much of anything to be at least a little suspect.
And if you read the article carefully, it isn't taking a defnitive stand but is suggesting that people have 'misinterpreted' what happened. In my opinion, it is worth adding to the store of evidence. But it is not worthy to take as gospel.
That's pretty much what I said. Of the two, which is all we have here, only the TPM story presented any evidence that there even was a misinterpretation (and quoted directly from the NPS letter which said nothing about ordering closures).
Looks to me like this whole week is, more than anything else, a boon to political spinnicists banging away at their keyboards trying to intimate fear and loathing motivations into scenarios where little or nothing exists save an understandable uncertainty about who's supposed to do or not do what or not-what.
Alex Jones must be jealous.
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