When the story broke about the Russians supposedly having compromising information on President-Elect Trump, warning bells starting ringing. It didn’t take much research to find out that CNN’s story…

and Buzzfeed’s “explanation”…

Here's the note I sent to @buzzfeednews staff this evening pic.twitter.com/OcAloWzVzb

— Ben Smith (@BuzzFeedBen) January 11, 2017

was full of more innuendos, allegations, and implicit malice than you can shake a stick at. But by golly, that didn’t stop people from jumping on the ‘we were RIGHT! Trump should never have been elected!’ bandwagon with guns blazing.

Thankfully cooler and much more objective heads are prevailing. I mentioned a few here.  John Podhoretz, NOT A TRUMP fan had this to say:

Readers of this newspaper know well not to include me among Trump’s supporters. But the scurrilousness of what BuzzFeed has done here is so beyond the bounds of what is even remotely acceptable it should compel even those most outraged by Trump’s political excesses to come to his defense and to the defense of a few other people mentioned in these papers whose names are also dragged through the mud.