I completely agree with Gregg over at Electric City Weblog regarding his post entitled, “Feigned Outrage” about the silliness that is being posted from the left side of the blogosphere about the boating accident a couple of weeks ago.
He writes, Reading the ‘left side’ of the blogosphere, though, one finds the breathless ‘coverage’ of the Denny Rehberg accident to border on the silly. These people pluck ‘facts’ from news stories and rumors and extrapolate all sorts of perceived misdeeds on the part of our Congressman, all while we really know nothing about the fundamental fact in issue. And all while a young man lies in a hospital bed.
What we know as it was reported is that State Senator Greg Barkus was driving a boat that crashed. Congressman Denny Rehberg and two of his senior staff were in the boat, along with Barkus’ wife. All were injured. Some very seriously. That’s about all we know for sure. The investigation is continuing. No charges have been filed.
By the way, it was reported that Rehberg had an alcoholic drink with his dinner. Imagine that.
The night I heard about the accident (before I found out it was a very serious accident) I was planning on writing about the accident using the SS Minnow and a three-hour tour -a three hour tour story as background. That post went into the trash bin.
So on August 29, I wrote: It is my hope that political gamesmanship can take a back seat for a few days and that bloggers and the media will concentrate on the health and recovery of those injured, instead of scoring political points.
That did not happen, but I have been blogging since January 2005, so I am not that surprised. Here in Montana it’s the method of operation from some (with the help of some in the media) to throw enough crap against the wall that some is bound to stick. It worked for the left side here during the senate campaign of 2006, and it appears they will try to use this accident as a springboard to help defeat Rehberg.
Seriously, the days of taking a rope and throwing it over a branch on the closest tree and being the judge, the jury and the executioner are long gone. Even in the west. It’s 2009, folks. All the rumors and irrelevant posts about this accident is just plain silliness.
The Western Word 
My only qualm is that Rehberg would have had more than 2 beers to get to that BAC. He was a .05 several hours after drinking… so calculating backward he was likely more at a .08 BAC at the time of the accident. Whatever, I really don't care if he was drinking or not – but why he has to BS the media by saying he only had 1 beer and never finished the 2nd is pretty hard to believe given his BAC.
Why BS us? really? What does he have to lose. I would much rather the man say I had several drinks through the night as I was socializing, not make some to-do about not finishing his second beer. No real Montanan would have held that against him, had he just said what he did.
I guess it can be counted on that a politician won't "own it". Ever. That's either party.