Tony Scaramucci may or may not be a total sleazebag. Maybe the three excellent journalists were right about Scaramucci, maybe not. They should have followed CNN protocol and confirmed the anonymous allegation, but they published. Scaramucci took it as a bluff (rightly) and called them on it. CNN folded. The result - a likely story of high-level slime lost because of lack of due diligence. Those excellent journalists will find employment elsewhere, but Scaramucci is now in the public and FBI crosshairs, and whatever he was doing, he can't do anymore.  Too bad that three excellent journalists didn't have the sense to cover themselves, but the story will not go away.

I lot of very flaky Trump friends and associates have got the spotlight on them. Trump fans apparently won't give up, ever. But sometime the dam's likely to break, and a lot of folks downriver will be swept away.