Air America ........on fire

Air America News Letter | 07/14/05

[bert]

Attention Air America Radio Listener,

Tell Bush to fire Karl Rove!

Help our hosts show the great outrage among Air America listeners by signing right now.

Click here.

Air America Radio needs your help to get a traitor out of the White House. For two years, we've known that someone in the White House undermined America by maliciously leaking the identity of CIA covert operative Valerie Plame to punish her husband for criticizing the Bush Administration. And now what many suspected has finally been revealed: the leaker is President Bush's closest advisor, the man they call "Bush's Brain" – none other than Karl Rove.

A growing chorus of voices is calling on President Bush to fire Karl Rove – including Air America Radio hosts and listeners. The White House will try to say that Americans don't care about this. They'll try to pass it off as an "inside the Beltway" issue.

That's why today we're asking you to help our hosts by adding your name to our Air America Radio petition calling for Bush to fire Karl Rove. Please help us show that Air America Radio listeners are outraged about treason in the White House by signing right now: 

http://www.airamericaradio.com/petition/

George Bush has never been in such a "bad spot," as one reporter put it at Monday's White House press briefing. When this scandal first came up in 2003, the Bush White House said unambiguously: "If anyone in this Administration was involved in it, they would no longer be in this Administration.” (Scott McClellan, 9/29/03, White House press briefing)

The President must now make good on his word. By signing our petition, you'll be helping Air America Radio do its job as the country's leading progressive media outlet to bring pressure to bear on the Bush White House that won’t let up until Karl Rove has had his security clearance revoked and is barred from the White House.

Here are the facts about this case:

• Valerie Plame was an undercover CIA operative who worked in the field of WMD counter-proliferation.

• After her husband published an editorial in The New York Times critical of the Bush Administration, Valerie Plame's name and her CIA affiliation were leaked to a number of news sources.

• Right-wing hack Bob Novak published a column outing Valerie Plame and effectively ending her career.

• One of those who received the leak about Valerie Plame’s identity was Matt Cooper – his source: Karl Rove.

• By exposing her identity, Rove destroyed a valuable asset in the war on terror. But even worse than that, he potentially exposed and endangered a network of intelligence assets throughout the world that Plame had built painstakingly over an entire career.

• We will never know just how much damage Rove did, nor how many lives he ruined.

With 65 stations across the country, Air America is beginning to have the critical mass to make a real impact at crucial moments like these. Show that Air America Radio has become a political force to be reckoned with. Sign our petition and help Air America Radio send a message to the White House.

Thank you,

The Air America Radio Team

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For further reading:

The Michael Isikoff Newsweek piece that definitively revealed Rove as the source:
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8525978/site/newsweek/

Monday's "ridiculous" press briefing:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/07/20050711-3.html

The first of no doubt a flood of newspaper editorials calling for Rove to be fired:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/07/12/EDG8HDLC431.DTL

And Howard Kurtz asks the inevitable: " Frog-Marching Time for Rove?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2005/07/12/BL2005071200330.html

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[COBOL2Java]

I think you ought to get in contact with

www.celebrity-doubles.com

[meema]

I thought so. And now I read that his sentencing has been postponed to September??
The moral of the story is If you are going to do a crime like this, make sure you have solid dimz credentials.

There is no justice.

[agitator]

For anyone interested in opposition research, here's a short sample of the latest dem talking points:

http://rightalk.net/airamerica.asx

[Bob]

I thought that he would have to loosen his tie.

They can't loosen the tie (or the scarf as the case may be). If they did, the foreskin would slide up. :=)

[Mr. Silverback]

Strangely, Osama bin Laden signed the petition...and included a request for Janeane Garofalo's phone number.

[netmilsmom]

>>Strangely, Osama bin Laden signed the petition...and included a request for Janeane Garofalo's phone number.<<

LOLOLOL! I love ya, man!

[longtermmemmory]

despite the obvious fakes, err amerika will still report the quantity of signatures.

fake but accurate.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Is this your Photo?

I thought for sure it was the real Karl Rove delivering a message to the Leftists and the MSM, and especially Air America....

[Mr. Silverback]

LOLOLOL! I love ya, man!

Thank you, thank you, I'm here all week. Try the veal! Osama also said she was such a hottie he could never bring himself to put a burkha on her.

[DaveMSmith]

Signed Mary Poppins with kudos to the administration and blaming the left for ginning up this nonsense.

[handy]

Couple of thoughts...

1. For two years, we've known that someone in the White House undermined America
I thought Air America Listeners wanted to undermine America

2. The difference between Rush & these guys is that Rush knows he is entertainment. These guys are political operatives, not entertainers. Another difference is 20 million listeners versus 20 listeners I guess.

[Mr. Silverback]

Karl Rove isn't guilty of diddly, but if he were, he could share a cell with Sanfddy Berger (10 years for stealing classified docs), Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame, who are guilty of treason or something similar--what else are you going to call what they did. The four of them could take up bridge.

[Grampa Dave]

No, it isn't.

I may adopt it soon!

[Pete]

I know I am preaching to the choir but here it goes:

* Valerie Plame was an undercover CIA operative who worked in the field of WMD counter-proliferation.

She may have been at one time but that was at least 7 years before this incident. The law against knowingly revealing a NOC applies to the previous 5 years.
*

After her husband published an editorial in The New York Times critical of the Bush Administration, Valerie Plame's name and her CIA affiliation were leaked to a number of news sources.

* It is not clear who told what to whom so this charge is too vague to be worth anything.

Right-wing hack Bob Novak published a column outing Valerie Plame and effectively ending her career.

Novak merely said that she worked at CIA, which was pretty much common knowledge. She was the wife of an ambassador with two children. She hadn't been a NOC for at least 7 years and she wasn't in hiding. Novak has said that he didn't even know she had ever been a NOC and he did not say she was in the article.

One of those who received the leak about Valerie Plame’s identity was Matt Cooper – his source: Karl Rove.

Karl Rove did not mention her name to Cooper. Also, as is now coming out, Novak told Rove. The real question is who told David Corn? *

By exposing her identity, Rove destroyed a valuable asset in the war on terror. But even worse than that, he potentially exposed and endangered a network of intelligence assets throughout the world that Plame had built painstakingly over an entire career.

Wrong. It was David Corn writing in the Nation that outed her as being covert and it was the Vanity Fair photo shoot that would have allowed people in other countries to put a face to the pseudonym she would have used in the field.

We will never know just how much damage Rove did, nor how many lives he ruined.

The only lives he has ruined are those of the Left wing nuts.

Cliff May's piece from today really lays all this out very well.

[Dr.Hilarious]

Valerie Plame was an undercover CIA operative who worked in the field of WMD counter-proliferation.

Not at the time of the story breaking--according to Joe Wilson

After her husband published an editorial in The New York Times critical of the Bush Administration, Valerie Plame's name and her CIA affiliation were leaked to a number of news sources.

According to the New York Times, they were leaked BY a number of news sources. Wilson also had her status on his website.

Right-wing hack Bob Novak published a column outing Valerie Plame and effectively ending her career.

So how come she's back at work at the CIA if her career is over?

One of those who received the leak about Valerie Plame’s identity was Matt Cooper – his source: Karl Rove.

That's sort of true.

By exposing her identity, Rove destroyed a valuable asset in the war on terror. But even worse than that, he potentially exposed and endangered a network of intelligence assets throughout the world that Plame had built painstakingly over an entire career.

How could he destroy an analyst? She's back at work, so she's not destroyed. Also, you're inventing this "network" idea--the CIA knew she was about to be written about and said nothing when the writer called them. They didn't say "don't do that" which they have every right to do.

We will never know just how much damage Rove did, nor how many lives he ruined.

I could just as easily say the exact same thing about anyone, anywhere, at anytime. Unfortunately for you morons, you will never know how few listeners you have, because you can't count a void. But the CIA certainly seems to know how much "damage" Rove did--none.

[ForGod'sSake]

No no pipple! You haf it all wrong. Have you learned notting dummkopfs!? For propaganda information to be effective you must employ subtlety. Blatant lies vill only fire up zee right vingnuts......and get you fired. Idiots!

Your friend,

Joseph

;^)

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

That piece got posted here:

Who Exposed Secret Agent Plame?

[riri]

haha. Well, Red Commie Scum signed the petition. I'll bet he gets a voter reg card before long.

[weegee]

Doesn't sound like their studios are on fire to me.

These scumbags called for the assassination of the President last year.

I could care less about them wanting Rove fired.

[Edgerunner]

Rove is playing the rats like a cheap fiddle...