Posted on 07/16/2005 7:55:07 AM PDT by RightFighter
On MSNBC a little while ago, they had a story about the "politics of the CIA leak". The reporter was interviewing Pat Buchanan and Democratic strategist Peter Fenn. What follows is the best transcript I could piece together quickly. I've quoted Fenn word for word.
PAT BUCHANAN: It's very, very serious...There is a credibility problem for the press secretary...There is no legal problem for Rove...Reporters in Washington have a gleam in their eye and smiles on their faces, and there's a reason for it...Pat Fitzgerald hasn't been digging for two years and judges haven't been sending reporters to jail because they don't have anything...Everyone in town (Washington) feels there is something very, very serious and today's story in the NY Times where a memo was floating around aboard Air Force One about Wilson's trip to Africa indicates this could be very big stuff.
ALEX: Peter, what kind of big stuff could Pat be referring to?
PETER FENN: Alex, this is not a third-rate burglary. The focus had been on White House staff. Now, as Pat says, with this memo from the State Department about Wilson, about his wife, about the connection, it was brought onto Air Force One by Secretary Powell. I cannot imagine, Alex, that if he's going up and down the aisles with that memo as he was supposed to have been, that he did not discuss it with the President of the United States. I cannot imagine that there were not phone calls from Ari Fleischer, the Press Secretary who was on board, back to the White House about this. This was precisely at the time when Wilson was about to publish his article. Folks knew about his position about weapons of mass destruction. I have a sense that this may go all the way to the top.
Pray for W and Our Troops
These are desperate times for the Dems. They are heading over a cliff. We only need to stay out of their way.
Truly. This has to be the mightiest molehill of hysterical nonsense from the Democrats and their allies in the MSM that I can remember."
Not only that, this is only interesting to political junkies and those who hold office and their acolytes, and the MSM. Everyone else is on vacation or working their jobs. Who would except the above want to watch this $hit on TV?
To quote my favorite U.S. president ever: "There you go again." Watergate: Hillary's specialty. Impeachment: Hillary's specialty. I'd almost think (with tinfoil firmly in place) that the recent revelation of Mark Felt as Deep Throat was just part of the bigger plan. Setting the stage? Americans love a good political circus coming to town via the front page of their newspapers. Distracts them from the burden of the War on Terrorism and all its dreadful, depressing news. This is MUCH more fun, and heaven knows we ALL miss the amusement the Clinton co-presidency brought us. Why, we even wish they were 'President' again.
So now what are the pundits going to call this to try and cause it to 'set' in the minds of the public? 'Plamegate' doesn't really cut it because not enough nameless, faceless peasants know who she is. (Ironic when you think of it. I mean, this IS all about her being endangered so terribly by being 'outed'.) Even 'Rovegate' isn't truly effective. Maybe 'Bushgate'? All the way to the top! Yeah, that's the ticket! Just think of the increase in circulation and ratings they'll get with that one. Why, even CBS would be able to get back in the game!
I saw this exchange.
And Pat Buchanan was JUST as excited about the idea as Peter Finn was.
They both make me sick.
I totally disagree about the good-looking "babes"--
I think Fox has them.
But, since I am a woman, I may not be the best gauge!!! LOL
The MSM is going to break from the technicality of the law because if they acknowledge she wasn't covert then there goes ANY argument they want to have against this administration unless they claim someone lied to the GJ without any proof behind that. I'm sure these commentators have been instructed to stay away from the legality issue and go just with the "leak" as it refers only to one talking.
What a ridiculous thing to even REPEAT.
It's not going to happen. Period.
Anybody who supports ANYBODY that Pat Buchanan supports is a FOOL.
Amen to what you said!
I'm glad you're back; maybe you can drag a little sanity into these Chicken Littles.
You are right. The MSM is playing a guessing game about who said what to push for a perjury indictment. I actually think they are biting the wrong target and should be looking at Wilson because the only lying I see may be on him. If the memo is about his wife's role in him getting his job and he told federal investigators she had no role then he just lied to the investigators.
Joe took the Islamicists' side,
When he said that the President lied
The Times spread the tale
Please keep them in jail
And, certainly, Joe should be fried.
Exactly! :-)
It's their new way of keeping the story going even though they have nothing new to say.
If scandals are propelled because people lie and try to cover up, non-stories proliferate because reporters create "spin-offs" of the main story which have even less bearing on reality.
In this case, they're reporting on a cover-up that doesn't exist to a scandal that never happened. Thus, they continue the cycle of non-news.
The Aruba disappearance, "covering up" a void, Harry Potter book going on sale, Tom Cruise jumping on a couch--the MSM should be ashamed of themselves for selling a product that's 99% packaging.
Precisely.
Pat Buchanan is delusional.
Hey, that sounds just like a lot of people who post right here on FR, doesn't it? You know, the Unappeasables and the Malcontents, the ones who are going to "punish" us in 2006 and 2008 (blackmail again, eh?) if we don't do exactly as they say.
Exactly! "Well, how about THIS then?"
It's not going to actually HAPPEN, but they are certainly going to TRY. They're that desperate.
This is the question, IMO.
The more I listen to Wilson, the more I think about "a stuck pig."
And I think the fact that Wilson wasn't asked to be a member of this administration has something to do with this.
Novak said it's a "non-partisan, Senior White House official".
Who might it be?
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