Greg Sargent underscores the importance of the president taking a question from Huffington Post's Sam Stein last night:
But the real innovation isn’t in what Obama did. It’s in what outlets like HuffPpo are doing. Places like HuffPo and my alma matter, Talking Points Memo, are striving to demonstrate that it needn’t necessarily be mutually exclusive to care along with your audience what happens in politics — to have a predisposition towards one outcome or another — while simultaneously doing real journalism.
Sargent continues by observing that Stein's question about investigating and prosecuting the Bushies was one of the toughest of the night. In fact, the president kind of dodged it. Accountability, it turns out, might actually be more pronounced when it comes from the same side.