White women and Downing Street

The quote of the day comes from Carla at Preemptive Karma:

I've maintained for quite some time that if Bush were caught on video raping and beating a woman..his supporters would blame the woman for wearing a short skirt and the camera operator for taping it. And then they'd write the Bush campaign a check.

While we don't have that tape we have something equally as damning, The Downing Street Memo. Carla has more.

And what do we get instead of stories about the Downing Street Memo? The young white woman in distress de jour. Eugene Robinson explains.