Still No Inspector General News At The New York Times

The New York Times has published precisely one article about Barack Obama's illegal firing of Americorps inspector general Gerald Walpin. And that article was only to repeat on Obama's since discredited excuse for breaking the law to serve a friend and political ally.

Meanwhile, the story keeps evolving in Obama's disfavor.

The inspector general fired by President Obama after concluding that a California project backed by a Democratic mayor misused at least part of $847,673 in federal grants said Tuesday he is fighting back to protect the integrity and independence of all government watchdogs.

"For a second I was thinking, 'Why do I need all of this?' I'll just resign and go back to my good legal practice in New York," Gerald Walpin told The Washington Times' "America's Morning News" radio show Tuesday.

"But I would then be part of the apparatus that is totally torpedoing the inspectors general," Mr. Walpin said. "The watchdog would not really be a watchdog. He'd just be afraid of his shadow."