INTIMIDATION

The Woodward-Blodget saga will no doubt go on for a while.

It's really a story with two tails, damage control and intimidation, Siamese twins in the twisted, convoluted and corrupt worlds of Wall Street and Washington. Travel there unarmed at your own peril.

The case against Martha Stewart was in our humble opinion way more flimsy than Blodget. But she was a bigger media catch, right up there with Oprah, since they could hold her up and say: "See, we're doing something to get these awful cheaters."

Stewart did nothing more than what dozens of other insiders did and still do and walked. Blodget, despite the size of his fines, was a small-time crook nibbling at the edges of the high grass were he sought and would've loved to go.

Make no mistake this is about intimidation. When Watergate exploded one of the self-righteous themes of the MSM--and we include scabs like Woodward here--was intimidation. The Nixon clan had a hit list that mysteriously went viral before viral was viral. The media outrage was thicker than Karl Rove's waistline.

But if you look carefully you'll have a difficult time finding, with much succor from their MSM friends, administrations more familiar with intimidation tactics than the last two Democrat one.

These are some serious, treacherous, evil folks who if he were around today would have Machiavelli reaching for a helmet and a flak jacket.