heh-heh!
Posted on 07/22/2005 6:32:37 PM PDT by God luvs America
Dear MoveOn member,
Like a roller coaster, the news out of Washington this week has been an up and down ride. On Monday, the entire country was focused on Karl Rove's leak of the identity of an undercover CIA operative to the media. Then President Bush announced his nominee for the Supreme Court on primetime TV—nearly pushing the Rove story out of the news. The timing was intentional, a top Republican told Reuters: "It helps take Rove off the front pages for a week.”1 Monday, there were 1,043 news stories mentioning "Karl Rove" on top TV stations—yesterday there were 128.2
But last night, Bloomberg broke a major new part of the story: Rove’s explanation to the grand jury of how he learned Valerie Plame’s identity differs sharply from the explanations journalists gave.3 That could mean Rove lied to the grand jury—a felony. We need to make sure the media get back on the case. One easy way to do that is on the Letters-to-the-Editor page of newspapers. We've set up an online tool that makes submitting a letter easy. You write your letter, choose where you want it to go, and click to send. Will you write a letter to the editor? Click below to get started.
An effective letter-to-the-editor is short, just a couple of paragraphs. The goal is to show your local media, your neighbors, and even our elected leaders that people are upset about the Rove leak scandal.
Your letter will be very timely. Now, there are new revelations about a memo that made it clear to White House officials that CIA agent Valerie Plame's identity was a secret. The memo is evidence that there are probably multiple people involved in this CIA leak scandal.4
The Rove leak is scandalous because everybody agrees White House officials shouldn't blow the cover of our undercover CIA agents. An ABC News poll shows that a solid majority of Americans—some 75 percent—support firing Rove for what he did. This is true even among 71 percent of Republicans.5 But, so far, Republicans in Washington are ignoring the facts. It is important that the media hears that people are angry about the Rove leak so they keep reporting on developments in the case.
The outing of undercover CIA agent Valerie Plame is more outrageous because Karl Rove and the other White House leakers clearly had a political, not a patriotic, agenda. Ambassador Joe Wilson was refuting the bogus claims by the Bush administration about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Revealing the undercover identity of Wilson’s CIA agent wife was an attempt to discredit Ambassador Wilson and silence critics of the Iraq war. The lies that Wilson exposed were central to the rationale for war the Bush administration sold the American people.
Your letter can send a signal to the media that people don't want officials in important government positions who put their political agenda ahead of their patriotism. We can insist on media coverage of the White House leak. Please write a letter today.
There is also good news from Congress—the Democrats are standing up and working hard to make sure there is accountability. Today, Senate and House Democrats will hold their own hearings on the national security implications of the leak. They’ll hear from former CIA agents including a former classmate of Valerie Plame. The hearings will be chaired by Senator Byron Dorgan and Congressman Henry Waxman.
Together, we pushed stories like the Downing Street Memos into the news. Let's jumpstart the Karl Rove story.
Thanks for all you do.
–Tom, Carrie, Wes, James and the MoveOn.org Political Action Team Friday, July 22nd, 2005
http://political.moveon.org/lte/index.html?lte_campaign_id=
Punch in a zip code and you can actually send a LTE telling them what a whole scam this Plamegate garbage is...we've already sent four!
Was this hearing also run by chairman Conyers? LOL these morons sure are getting whacky.
good point......go to the link and send an LTE telling them exactly that....the letters go directly to the papers...
You noticed that too, huh?
Only with MOVEON. They are so French, they've adopted the Napoleonic Code. Guilty until proven innocent..
Get over it and MOVE ON!
A friend of mine who is good hearted but wrong headed forwarded me her MoveOn petition regarding this matter. I'll usually engage her in a little back and forth - but the lefties are really getting so pathetic so I dedin't have the heart. It's almost sad. Check out Kos. These folks are BEGGING to be creamed in elections for quite some time.
they brag about pushing the downing street memos into the news.
hey memo to Moveon.org: the downing street memos were a pile of horse manure
A friend of mine who is good hearted but wrong headed forwarded me her MoveOn petition regarding this matter. I'll usually engage her in a little back and forth - but the lefties are really getting so pathetic so I didn't have the heart. It's almost sad. Check out Kos. These folks are BEGGING to be creamed in elections for quite some time.
LOL. It sounds like their whole house of cards is getting ready to fall!
By golly, if no one else will listen to them cry wolf, they'll cry wolf to each other! That ought to teach Bush a lesson! Eeeeeeeeeyyyyaaaaaaaa!
By golly, if no one else will listen to them cry wolf, they'll cry wolf to each other! That ought to teach Bush a lesson! Eeeeeeeeeyyyyaaaaaaaa!
Truer words were never spoken-nice observation-wish I'd said it! LOL!
4) The term "covert agent" means—
(A) a present or retired officer or employee of an intelligence agency or a present or retired member of the Armed Forces assigned to duty with an intelligence agency—
(i) whose identity as such an officer, employee, or member is classified information, and
(ii) who is serving outside the United States or has within the last five years served outside the United States; or
(Cont'd)
I sent this one to every paper on their list:
Anyone with access to the real facts--easily obtained by a bit of Internet browsing-- knows there is no "there there" to the Democrats' claim Karl Rove had anything to do with the so-called "outing" of Valerie Plame Wilson. On the contrary, the facts clearly demonstrate Plame was not some kind of 007 secret agent. She was just another CIA bureaucrat who toiled away at her 9 to 5 desk job like thousands of others there who drive in and out of Langley (CIA HQ) each day. Since she was not a covert agent, any revelation of her name as a CIA employee was certainly not a violation of any law though the Democrats, and their liberal support groups like MoveOn.org, hope you believe it was. The real questions in the Plame affair are why did the CIA allow Plame to recommend her hubby--a known Bush administration hater--for the job of looking into the Niger yellow cake Uranium issue. Another real question is who is Judith Miller of the liberal New York Times protecting...you can bet it's not Karl Rove. Could it be a high-level Democrat?
ANY fact/evidence/statistic etc. I present is dismissed if it does not conform to the Bush/conservatives=evil world view. They find a way to create bizarre conspiracy theory-like explanations for ANYTHING that disproves what they believe.
Wonderful!
Here's what I sent:
Our friends at MoveOn.org have established a web page for automatically emailing Letters To The Editor to a wide variety of newspapers:
http://political.moveon.org/lte/index.html?lte_campaign_id=
It's slightly unfortunate that you can't post to all their newspapers at once, but you can hit your "back" button twice after the confirmation page, select another newspaper, and submit it again.
Here's what I sent:
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What a crock this RoveGate is!
Bloodthirsty Islamic jihad metastasizes for a decade or more; it is attacking civilization around the globe: from New York and Washington to Bali and now London and the resorts of Sharm el-Sheik. They want us dead.
Yet the Left hopes you won't notice how its political correctness, moral relativism and plain cowardice have brought us to this juncture and put us all in peril. No, they want you to fixate on this absolutely inane Karl Rove thing instead, as if it compares to Clinton's Chinagate or Berger's Pantsgate.
Don't be fooled. We spent eight years letting the Left push matters of serious import off the front page with artfully conjured headline-grabbing events, including cruise missiles lobbed at empty tents and aspirin factories. We're in for a half century of bloodshed thanks to these folks and their stewardship of national security. Swat them like the gnats they are.
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Even if you were to print a copy (or send her the gov. link) of the actual "outing law" written by the U.S. government itself? How can she argue with that? It'll be in black and white right in front of her face!
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