More Plame game shame...

[Larry Gude]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/06/AR2006090601648.html

The Post is, once again, holding the 'ers responsible for their as regards Plame/Wilson.

For much of the past five years, dark suspicions have been voiced about the Bush White House undermining its critics, and Karl Rove has been fingered as the chief culprit in this supposed plot to suppress the opposition.

Then Blumenthal went off on a rant: "While the White House stonewalls, Rove has license to run his own damage control operation. His surrogates argue that if Rove did anything, it wasn't a crime. . . . Rove is fighting his war as though it will be settled in a court of Washington pundits. Brandishing his formidable political weapons, he seeks to demonstrate his prowess once again. His corps of agents raises a din in which their voices drown out individual dissidents. His frantic massing of forces dominates the capital by winning the communications battle. Indeed, Rove may succeed momentarily in quelling the storm. But the stillness may be illusory. Before the prosecutor, Rove's arsenal is useless."

In fact, the prosecutor concluded that there was no crime; hence, no indictment. And we now know that the original "leak," in casual conversations with reporters Novak and Bob Woodward, came not from the conspiracy theorists' target in the White House but from the deputy secretary of state at the time, Richard Armitage, an esteemed member of the Washington establishment and no pal of Rove or President Bush.

These and other publications owe Karl Rove an apology. And all of journalism needs to relearn the lesson: Can the conspiracy theories and stick to the facts.

 

[vraiblonde]

These and other publications owe Karl Rove an apology. And all of journalism needs to relearn the lesson: Can the conspiracy theories and stick to the facts.

Do you think the Post editors realize Broder is talking to them?

 

[Larry Gude]

All I care about...

Do you think the Post editors realize Broder is talking to them?

...is that this stuff, the common sense, fact based arguments are starting appear in the temples of the left.

Maybes it's just listening to a junkie claim he needs to get clean while he's stealing your car...maybe it's bigger than that.

 

[Bustem' Down]

Any well run administration is run by propaganda and misinformation. :shrug: