Tuesday, July 12, 2005

Karl Rove And The Chum Of Politics Great piece by James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal Online today about the hyperventilated news coverage of the Joe Wilson and his CIA wife leak that has become the rallying cry of the left. You know, if you hear a lie often enough and from every mainstream media outlet long enough, you just might come to believe it. Tarranto fixes all that right here. Roly Poly Fish Heads by James Taranto Oh boy, a feeding frenzy! The speculation, and later revelation, that Karl Rove was a source who blew the whistle on Joe Wilson's Niger chicanery has revived the Valerie Plame kerfuffle. Just when you thought things couldn't get sillier, they do, as the Angry Left's excitement has bubbled up into the mainstream media. The lead story in today's New York Times is headlined "At White House, a Day of Silence on Rove's Role in C.I.A. Leak." As the Mediacrity blog notes, this is "too cute," given that the Times has dispatched one of its own reporters to jail so that it can keep silent about what it knows about Rove or some other source. Of course, there is a difference: The Times is keeping silent because the public has a right to know. Yesterday's White House press briefing featured a similarly hilarious question from ABC News's Terry Moran to press secretary Scott McClellan: Now that Rove has essentially been caught red-handed peddling this information, all of a sudden you have respect for the sanctity of the criminal investigation? The information that Rove has been "caught red-handed peddling" is that Wilson's wife, Plame, engineered his trip to Niger. Wilson denied this when it became public two years ago this week, but it turned out that Rove was telling the truth and Wilson was not. In other words, here we have Moran, a reporter, attacking the White House for providing accurate information to reporters! This is journalism at its best? We're too weary of the subject to review once more why there's nothing to the "scandal"; read John Podhoretz if you need a refresher. In any case, people who think in clichés keep asserting that "there's blood in the water," meaning Rove's. Those of us who have actually gone fishing know chum when we see it. 10:25:19 PM    comment [] trackback []

Next Partisan Lie To Make The Headlines Here's page one (the only page) of Harry Reid's playbook. If there isn't a controversy, make one up. Like Bush's national guard 'memo' made up in Texas, and the Downing St. memo, made up overseas. And the classic Bush said that Saddam and Iraq had a part in the 9/11 attack line. All of which were made up stories aimed at knocking Bush out of office. So now, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid pulls the next lie out about a possible White House leaker. Below from gopbloggers.org. Harry Reid's Historical Revisionism. Democrats are clearly enthralled with the possibility of taking down Karl Rove. While it is not even clear that any crime was committed, they are circling like vultures. Look at Harry Reid's rewriting of President Bush's statement. President Bush: "If there is a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is and if the person has violated the law, the person will be taken care of," Bush said in September 2003. Harry Reid completely rewrites it: "The White House promised if anyone was involved in the Valerie Plame affair, they would no longer be in this administration, his administration. I trust they will follow through on this pledge," said Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid. President Bush clearly said that if a crime was committed, he would address it. Reid now lies by inventing a quote from the President saying that if anyone was involved in the affair they would be fired. [GOP Bloggers] 7:15:30 PM    comment [] trackback []

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