Posted on 04/22/2006 12:03:40 PM PDT by Uncledave
Who is Mary McCarthy?
Well, as of this morning (Saturday) most of the big media don't care. They're fixated with the weather and gas prices — and anything else that will divert the public's attention from the stunning revelation that a Sandy Berger crony has apparently been leaking top-secret information from her high post at the CIA. The media will continue to downplay this story as they cover-up their own role in exposing our nation's secrets, including the supposed existence of CIA prisons in Europe. She'll be called a "whistleblower" and praised as some kind of patriot (a patriot, in the eyes of the media, is anybody who undermines this administration and the war effort by leaking national security secrets to them). They will downplay that McCarthy was a Clintonoid who somehow managed to land a top post at the CIA, ultimately winding up in the CIA's Inspector General's Office, from where she could monitor CIA internal investigations of, well, leaks, among other things.
The news spin, to the extent attention is being paid to this by the big media outlets, is that McCarthy's firing is unprecedented! Or it's Bush's fault! In one of the most absurd comments by any newsman anywhere, Newsbusters.org notes that Bob Schieffer of CBS Evening News asserted that “it is no secret that the current administration does not like its people hanging out with news reporters without permission” and he described the firing as “a first — a dubious first, to be sure.” Here. Is this guy for real?
If she leaked she must be charged. I wonder what Schieffer would say then? I suppose he would urge that she receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom. After all, the Washington Post's Dana Priest, who apparently served as McCarthy's stenographer, was just awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
I must say, however, that the media's sickening hypocrisy knows no bounds. They came to the defense of Joe Wilson and his wife, Valerie Plame, who worked behind-the-scenes to get her husband that “fact-finding” trip to Niger. They demanded an investigation into who “leaked” Plame’s identity to Bob Novak — which ensnared their own reporters. They hoped they would critically wound the president, and they failed. Clearly Plame was not undercover and the revelation of her identity was not a crime. Lewis Libby now stands accused of lying about a crime that never occurred and the media think that’s a good thing.
Now comes Mary McCarthy, who apparently leaked real classified national-security secrets and the media largely dismiss it or defend it. They have no curiosity about McCarthy, the extent of her leaks, to whom she leaked (beyond Priest, did she leak to other reporters, members of Congress, other governments?), how she secured top security posts, and her ties to the Clinton administration. Surely there is every reason the government should pursue this investigation at least as vigorously as the Plame matter has been pursued. Dana Priest, among others, should have her day before a grand jury.
And watch the congressional Democrats follow the media’s lead. Long ago they put party and power above victory in this war. McCarthy’s ties to Clinton threaten to take attention from their unrelenting attack on the Bush administration and their claims of incompetence in the management of the war, which they see as their ticket to majority status in 2006.
Putting that aside, the discovery of McCarthy does make you wonder how many more of her ilk have squirreled themselves into the bureaucracy, from where they seek to undermine the country.
The vast leftwing conspiracy...
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Hmm.
We used to reserve that moniker for Jackie Gleason............ but, for Mark, there is an exception to be made.
Yes, the lack of reaction of the MSM is rather amazing here, isn't it?
I have never seen a clearer double-standard in the way two similar stories were handled. The MSM just won't report it and hope nobody but the blogs will notice.
We'll see.
The little part of the media who were looking could not find Mary McCarthy last night for comment. She was over at Sandy's house comparing her beautiful, boubtiful bloomers with his pathetic, puffy pants.
--oh , I guess not---
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You're right. The Marxists still control the media, Hollyweird, the universities and lower "educational" grades, the State Department, etc.
The OTHER McCARTHY was right all along!
LOL, or maybe at Dana's house writing their book for 60 minutes.
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Campaign contributions
March 14, 2004 McCarthy gave $2000 to the campaign of John F. Kerry. Source: Political Money Line and NY Times[2].
October 15, 2004 McCarthy gave $5000 to the Ohio Democratic Party. Source: Political Money Line
October 29, 2004 McCarthy gave $500 to "DNC services Corp" [3]
November 1, 2002 McCarthy gave $200 to Steve Porter Andreasen (D-MN). [4]
:-)
Ok, we know - time after time - that the media is against this administration and the country.
So, another episode and we, the great watchers of history, again bemoan the fact that this episode will be ignored by the media. End of story. Dang, the media just will not play fair. Woe for us, woe for us.
We have some power - we have the blogs, we have talk radio, we have letter-writing ability. We can protest also.
WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THIS IS REPORTED FAR AND WIDE. Time to let the media know they are not the rulers of this country - they are not elected and they will not have free run of this government to disclose any national security fact they can bribe, steal or make-up.
What is wrong with us? The democrats are not even the majority and they are ruling this country.
If WE can't cause enough fuss, if we can't speak up loud enough, if we can't just ignore the big media and find ways around the media, we are just worthless "watchers" as the dems, liberals, communists, socialists tear this country apart.
Are we dead yet?
Yes.
One big rotten, incestuous, lefty, un-American family, aren't they?
" ...how many more of her ilk have squirreled themselves into the bureaucracy, from where they seek to undermine the country."
LOTS, and it's been going on for decades.
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