Posted on 07/13/2005 5:56:43 PM PDT by madprof98
Wherein your correspondent corrects some misconceptions.
Why aren't the major newspapers running editorials calling for Karl Rove's resignation? The Washington Post is silent. So is the Los Angeles Times. Maybe they're waiting for more information. But what more do they have to know? The White House deputy chief of staff revealed the identity of an undercover CIA employee to Time magazine. He did this solely for the purpose of attacking the credibility of an administration critic. He did not check first to find out whether said CIA employee was undercover. Or perhaps he knew and didn't care. Either way, such reckless behavior is a firing offense. Next case.
The New York Times weighs in today with uncharacteristic timidity. (I knew we were in for noncommittal chin-pulling when I saw the headline, "A Few Thoughts on Karl Rove." In editorial-ese, "A Few Thoughts on" is code for "We Can't Decide About.") The editorial states, erroneously, that Rove told Time's Matt Cooper that Wilson was sent to Niger "at the suggestion of his wife." Wilson was sent to Niger at the suggestion of his wife, but that's not what Rove told Cooper, according to Cooper's e-mail to his bureau chief as quoted by Newsweek, which is all we have to go on. According to Cooper's e-mail, Rove told him Wilson's wife "authorized the trip," which is not true. Rove's absurd insinuation seems to have been that only a girly-man would depend on his wife for work, and that a girly-man wouldn't know squat about weapons of mass destruction. Unless Cooper was garbling what Rove told him, we must conclude that Rove was passing along false information, perhaps with the recommendation that Cooper check it out, or perhaps not.
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.msn.com ...
Ted Rall is calling for the death penalty.
I feel your pain, Timothy. There hasn't been any editorials calling for Sandy Berger's indictment.
Well Timmy, I suspect that they are worried about when the other shoe drops.
Only if Ted goes first (one of those "demonstration projects" of which the Democrats were always so enamored)
Slate 2007: Rove Death Watch, Part 58....
These guys ought to spend more time with their families.
In major need of a BARF ALERT!
Beat me to it....
"Slate 2007: Rove Death Watch, Part 58.... "
LOL. I thought the same thing when I saw the article title.
That is clearly projection on the part of Timothy Noah. There is no support for Noah's assertion. Is Noah a mind reader?
I suppose that I could play the same game, though. I have discerned from Noah's writing that in fact Noah is himself a girly-man, and is afraid that his secret will come out, and that is why he is hyper-sensitive to hidden meanings that exist not in Karl Rove's statement but only within Noah's feminized mind...
Karl who? Ha ha ha
Perhaps so. At the very least, one might discern from Noah's thinking that he is very young. "Callow", in fact, would seem to be accurate appraisal.
Could be easily confused with "effeminate"...
"... revealed the identity of an undercover CIA employee to Time magazine."
That statement is a lie. Rove's conversation with Cooper took place AFTER Robert Novak's column in which her name was given. Secondly, she was not undercover .. she was an analyst. And .. her name was listed as Wilson's wife - on Wilson's very own website.
More liberals engaging in intellectual masturbation.
I can't wait for "Rove Death Watch, Part X"
Dems and the press have been calling on Bush to fire everyone in the administration for years. He basically got rid of the only one they liked (Powell).
Maybe they should change strategy and start praising them?
The rank and file Democrats have to have whiplash from trying to keep up by now. Some of them are probably still complaining about Abu Gharaib (like 16 manufactured scandals ago) if they've been busy with other things.
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