Hitchens said it all. Great piece. One point he missed however...
I was on Limbaugh's show yesterday as a caller and made the following comment about the Isikoff piece:
It obviously killed Isikoff to have to clear the Bush inner circle of being the ones who first leaked Plame's identity because near the end of the Newsweek piece he still can't resist trashing the administration and Karl Rove and falling back to the media's template that the administration was out to smear Wilson.
Near the end of the article he says:
But officials at the White House also told reporters about Wilson's wife in an effort to discredit Wilson for his public attacks on Bush's handling of Iraq intelligence. Karl Rove confirmed to Novak that Wilson's wife worked at the CIA, and days later offered the same information to Time reporter Matt Cooper.
Isikoff fails to mention that Novak says he's the one who initiated the call to Rove, Rove didn't call him, that the initial subject matter was on some policy issue besides Iraq and that Novak then brought up Plame's name as being the one who sent Joe Wilson to Niger. All Rove
said was "Oh you heard that too?" Rove never even
brought up Plame or her name! And Novak has said he obtained Plame's name from "Who's Who."
bttt
Like Quayle and the potato or Senator Allen and macaca, the dbm have their story and they will not give it up. Facts and logic do not enter their reality.