It goes something like this: Conservative pundits make an inflammatory charge involving race; Democrats immediately react as if it were absolutely true; further investigation reveals that the charge is a distortion largely unsupported by fact; and Democrats then fall all over themselves apologizing for their unseemly stampede to a deeply flawed judgment.
But it also was not the be-all and end-all that it was eventually characterized as in subsequent accounts of the crisis, which also had the self-serving effect of absolving the officials of any blame for what, with benefit of hindsight, seems a deeply flawed judgment call.
But before passing flawed judgment, a careful examination of the moral cost of such judgment would be wise.
The decision follows an independent panel's report in April that found that the university had shown "seriously flawed" judgment in awarding an M.B.A. to Heather Bresch, the daughter of Gov. Joe Manchin III, even though she did not have enough academic credits.
In Eichmann, however, she suggested, further, that flawed judgment was, in fact, a trait that Eichmann shared with millions of Germans; failure of judgement had a been a mass phenomenon during the Third Reich.
Last week, a five-member independent panel led by two university faculty members issued a report saying that high-ranking academic officers and administration officials showed "seriously flawed" judgment last fall in revising the academic records of Heather Bresch, a daughter of Gov. Joe Manchin III and an executive at Mylan Inc.
Was he ruing his own flawed judgment?
Now your flawed judgment is on show again with this Palmer dinner.
He remains an advocate of engagement with Iran and has warned against sliding into war on the basis of "flawed assumptions and flawed judgment".
As a country in the midst of two wars, we can ill afford having such continued flawed judgment carried out by the leaders of our intelligence community.
She said the reaction was as much about the overly anxious, safety-obsessed standards of suburbia as Ms. Primoff's flawed judgment.
