Sportsmanship is not accomplished simply by slapping hands...the post-game handshake represents not gloating and not whining. But the actual value at the heart of sportsmanship...is empathy. How would you feel, sportsmanship asks, if the other guy ruined your taste of victory or humiliated you in your time of defeat?
The right thing to do here is for ABC to reveal the source that fed it bogus information. This is what should happen for two reasons: 1) it should happen to demonstrate the consequences of feeding bogus information to ABC, and 2) it should happen to demonstrate that there is something of a campaign among Republican congressional staffers to wound an elected president with bogus information, because (as I think we would all agree) that's a helluva news story, too. (Those of us who remember ABC's performance during Whitewater are not optimistic, by the way.) Ball's in your court, folks. Who do you really serve? The country, or the liars in your BlackBerries?