Posted on 05/22/2006 1:27:40 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
Robert Luskin, Karl Rove's lawyer, says he spent most of the day on May 12 taking his cat to the veterinarian and having a technician fix his computer at home.
He was stunned, therefore, when journalists started calling to ask about an online report that he had spent half the day at his law office, negotiating with Patrick Fitzgerald -- and that the special prosecutor had secretly obtained an indictment of Rove.
The cat's medical tests, Luskin says, found that "the stools were free of harmful parasites, which is more than I can say for this case."
The claim that President Bush's top political strategist had been indicted in the CIA leak investigation was written by a journalist who has battled drug addiction and mental illness and been convicted of grand larceny. That didn't stop more than 35 reporters -- from all the major newspapers, networks and newsmagazines -- from calling Luskin or Rove's spokesman, Mark Corallo, to check it out.
The reports appeared on the liberal Web site Truthout.org, run by Marc Ash, a former advertising man and fashion photographer in California. Jason Leopold, the author of the stories, directed inquiries to Ash, who says that "we stand by the story. We have multiple points of independent confirmation of what we originally reported. Our problem is, the prosecutor's office is under no obligation to go public."
Leopold acknowledges in a new book, "News Junkie," that he is a past liar, convicted felon and former alcoholic and cocaine addict. An earlier version of the book was canceled by publisher Rowman & Littlefield last year.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
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Oooh! Oooh! Oooh! I can't wait to see this get posted at the DUmp.
Lucy did it again!
I direct your attention to the ever-hilarious:
http://dummiefunnies.blogspot.com/
This has been a source of amusement for a couple of days.
Highly recommended!
I'd post it there, but I have enough enemies, and a Kurtz article might get me thrown overboard.
Oooop's!
indited = indicted
And this is as close as they come to mentioning Will Pitt....
The filthy vermin applauding no doubt.
Good for Howard Kurtz.
He is to be applauded for writing this, and for speaking the truth about the MSM orgy for wanting to believe the phony article about a Rove indictment was true.
I am sure many MSM reporters were cringing as they read this. Kurtz made is clear that the source of this garbage is an drug addict, alchololic, and mental patient. I would add "recovering" to his alcoholism or drug addiction, since one is never a "former" addict as he stated, but that is a minor correction.
Good job Howard.
I need to see if the DUmmie are commenting about this article.
Hmmm...I'm still not finding comment on this article in DUmmieland.
Hoaxmas has made the Washington Compost!!
DUmmie FUnnies 05-15-06 (Pied Piper PItt Bets The Farm On Fitzmas)
DUmmie FUnnies 05-16-06 (Fitzmas Freudenschade Spreads Far And Wide)
DUmmie FUnnies 05-17-06 (Merry Hoaxmas!!!)
DUmmie FUnnies 05-17-06 (Pied Piper Pitt Reappears For Hoaxmas)
DUmmie FUnnies 05-18-06 (DUmmie Uprising Against Pied Piper Pitt Over Hoaxmas)
DUmmie FUnnies 05-18-06 (Hoaxmas Threads EXPLODING In DUmmieland!!!)
DUmmie Funnies 05-19-06 (TruthOut Issues Non-Apology "Apology" For Hoaxmas)
Thanks for breaking the links down, Charles.
Man, THAT is some funny, funny stuff!
Now that line is a gem... was Luskin channeling Mark Steyn?
A more accurate title would be "Junk Newsie".
Salon retracted a 2002 piece by Leopold involving Thomas White, then secretary of the Army. The online magazine apologized, saying it had been unable to confirm the authenticity of an e-mail that Leopold attributed to White. Leopold, a onetime reporter for the Los Angeles Times and Dow Jones, accused the online magazine of being "wimpy" and caving to pressure."
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