Marc Cooper skewers a WaPo PC whitewash of the crooked Indians who paid Abramoff: "No question that the Louisiana-based Coushattas – who Casino Jack referred to in e-mails as “monkeys,” “troglodytes,” and “morons” — got sleazed by Abramoff. But let’s slow down for a moment.

The 837 member tribe was perfectly willing to hand over a barge load of cash to Abramoff –$32 million to be precise—in hopes that he could achieve their primary goal: to block a nearby tribe of equally deserving (or undeserving) Native Americans from having a casino just like the Coushattas have. A casino, by the way, that generates a mammoth $300 million a year profit for this band of less than a 1,000 people."