Posted on 07/05/2005 2:21:05 PM PDT by rface
Fortunately, Mr Israel has a paper trail that indicates that his alleged familiarity with Mr Rove is somewhat over-stated. His politics are exactly what you would expect from a journalism professor at UMass.
http://www.dailycollegian.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2001/09/12/3b9eec7ab008c?in_archive=1
Prof Israel maintained that 9/11 was Bush's fault for neglecting the Palestinians!!
He was a graduate student when he supposedly taught with Mr Rove! Seems to me that he suffers from similar delusions to Ward Churchill.
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
I love the way this Israel guy begins by stating he is friends with Rove and then proceeds to stab Rove in the back with unsubstantiated claims. It's like Durbin (or other libs) saying they support the troops and then in the same breath compare our soldiers to Nazi's. Do they believe everyone is that stupid?
"The left wingnuts are so deceitful, they would have you believe that an American Hero Karl Rove controls the media."
Not that I don't respect Rove as political strategist, but since when have we started elevating a pollster and direct marketer to the status of "American hero"? Shouldn't we reserve that for George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Dwight Eisenhower, etc?
Supposing the reporter says, "Karl, if the CIA agent is Valerie Plame, and you can't tell me that, but if you say 'red' when I show you a blue card, I will know what you are really saying." The reporter holds up a blue card, Karl says "Red". Does that make Karl a criminal?
Point, set, match.
The best part of your link to the article by Israel are the comments people posted at the end. I only read the first five, but they are very entertaining. Here are a few select clips:
" The author of this article is an idiot and should resign from journalism."
"You sir, are a complete and utter moron. Did you receive you degree in Journalism from a cracker-jacks box? You and all your leftist b*tt-buddies make me sick. How many recounts were there in Florida? How many did Gore win? You are STILL talking about how W 'stole' the election. Even that paper that I wouldn't use in the cat-box, The New York Times, admitted that W won fair and square. Get over it. Better yet move to France, you will be much happier there. I feel sorry for your students. You must be brainwashing them with your leftist propaganda bovine scatology."
"Bill Clinton worked for eight years to resolve the conflict in the middle east? What a joke! I must have blinked and missed his eight years of work. All I saw was a month of forced feeding at the end of his term. Mr. Isreal is a typical arrogant, liberal journalist who is so full of his own misguided self-rightousness that he is completely out of touch with reality."
Rove is a political strategist. If he uses anyone, whose fault is that?
It's not the leaker that is using or abusing the first amendment right of freedom of the press, it's the person who prints or broadcasts the information.
Leftists are always quick to shout "Freedom of the Press" when the subject is protecting criminal or terrorist sources. But let the source be suspected to be someone close to President Bush, well that's a horse of different color. (Or in this case a horse's ass of a different color).
If this guy is a friend of Karl Rove---Karl Rove doesnt need any enemies.
That was making fun of the Left's hyperbolic fear of Rove, not celebrating it.
Like a student who never read the book, but only watched the movie: C-
If he was connected to the journalism dept. at UT, then he is very familiar with Robert Jensen. I'm sure you've seen his lunatic rantings on the talk shows.
how in the world does he know Rove leaked the name?
I'm sorry..I find it hard to believe that these two rat reporters(given the chance) would not *out* Rove if he was the leaker....someone convince me if I'm wrong
For some reason Colin Powell is in the back of my mind as the leaker. I don't know why, I'm probably dead wrong, but for some reason it's the gut feeling I have.
If these Israel and Jensen are typical of Professors of Journalism, the MSM is clearly drinking from a poisoned chalice.
Thought you two might be interested.....tell me why two rat reporters are willing to go to jail for Rove..
"For some reason Colin Powell is in the back of my mind as the leaker. I don't know why, I'm probably dead wrong, but for some reason it's the gut feeling I have."
My (current) top guess is one of Powell's aides. Powell's office seemed to leak a lot through Novak.
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