Posted on 07/13/2006 11:00:34 PM PDT by smoothsailing
In TV-land the moment is infamous.
One of the stars of the longtime hit TV series Happy Days, Arthur "The Fonz" Fonzerelli, played by Henry Winkler, is made to do something by the show's writers that was clearly designed to save the fading series from sinking ratings.
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He isn't being sued because of freedom of the press...huh!......lawyers he has talked to think it will be thrown out of court..........
Well, back to work. I will check in around lunchtime.
Novak: Fitzgerald didn't find a law about covert agents was broken. Mr. Wilson thinks it's necessary to continue this story by filing a lawsuit.
Thanks!
Novak on Fox now
Asman: Why are you not named in the suit?
Novak: < Snicker>, followed by more timely commentary
Me: Novak is going to be Very forthcoming in any future discussion of this stupid lawsuit.
I didn't have FNC on until I saw a freeper posted he was on so I only caught a bit of Novak's comments. He'll be on later today, I'm sure.
Well .. yes .. we're assuming the judge will have brains.
There are several of them who would throw this case out - so I'm praying for the right judge to be assigned this case.
I heard Wolf mention that and was surprised ..but didn't hear his whole statement. Did you get anything meaty about his comment re the time factor .. this being the 3rd anniversary of Novak's column ?
One thing that does stand out in my mind re Wilson/journalists is that it's pretty much a sure bet it was Chrissy who called Wilson and told him that KRove said Valerie was 'fair game.' He must be dying 'cause he's not here for this and Nora's covering it.
Just as well if the Moonbats try to go back to this well one last time. They are demonstrating even to those not paying attention that they are unhinged media whores of the first order.
As soon as this matter is finally settled, nobody will give a damn about Joe Wilson or Valerie Plame anymore. So they will keep this thing going for as long as possible. Kind of like how Dick Morris fights to keep Hillary! relevant, so somebody, somewhere, might give a fig what Dick Morris has to say.
I'm loving all this talk about whether or not the VP can be deposed; I bet Cheney's DYING to be deposed in this case.
The judge they filed with seems pretty good.
In 2002, he dismissed (pdf) a lawsuit brought by the congressional General Accounting Office seeking disclosure of records of the Vice President's Energy Task Force.
Joe the 4th has expensive tastes, having lived in the rarified atmosphere of Ambassadorial ranks. He is a pawn for the dems, and he is too stupid and avaricious to see it.
His famous constitutional lawyer is a left wing whack job that has probably never spent one minute reading a site such as FR, and has no idea to what he is attaching his name and reputation.
PS: I am watching the UN Ambassador from Israel, Dan Gillerman, lay out chapter and verse of the reasons for Israel's response. I wonder if CSPAN will Ever replay these remarks? I hope that transcripts will be available. I also love his accent!
I've been trying to work out words to a song, to the tune of Johnny Rivers' "Secret Agent Man," to mock Valerie "Look at MEEEEEEEEE" Plame.
I could use a little help.
There's a gal who leads a life of danger
To everyone she meets she stands a stranger
With every move she makes
Another nail she breaks
Odds are she'll drink Perrier at lunchtime.
Agent Valerie Plame
Agent Valerie Plame
(something something something
something something rhymes with "plame")
I like it......I like it!
Have you seen this article from Real Clear Politics. It isn't posted on FR.
Too funny, and you reminded me of it by mentioning the hack Dick Morris.
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July 14, 2006
Rove Secretly Runs The New York Times
By Bill Smith
New York, New York (SatireNewsService) - In a stunning development that would appear to have broad implications for the independence of America's newspaper industry, New York Times Publisher, Edwin 'Pinch' Sulzberger today revealed that longtime President Bush advisor Karl Rove has been secretly running the Times' news and editorial operation for almost four years.
According to well-placed insiders on the Times' Board of Directors, a shaken Sulzberger made that announcement in a hastily convened meeting of the Board of the Times' parent company, The New York Times Corp. Sulzberger reportedly told the board that the discovery was made last week.
"During an internal investigation, we reached the regrettable conclusion that Karl Rove has been running this newspaper since at least August, 2002," Sulzberger reportedly stated. "His intention is clear - to ruin the reputation of the newspaper and the party that our editorial policy supports."
Sulzberger reportedly continued: "I ordered an investigation to determine how the Times had come to publish detailed information about a top-secret government monitoring operation of the international financial transactions of al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups. The publication of this information clearly helps an enemy that killed thousands of people just a few blocks from here. Endangering Americans is something the Times would never intentionally do. Unfortunately this story fits a pattern of publication that has almost ruined the Times' reputation for probity and journalistic honesty as well as causing incalculable damage to the Democratic party that our editorial policy supports."
Edith Steingehirn, the Times' internal investigator who made the Rove discovery, told the board: "Our investigation into the publication of the terror financing story quickly led us to discover other frightening actions taken by our news and editorial divisions during the past four years."
"One example of these actions," said Steingehirn was the paper's disclosure six months ago that, the Bush administration had secretly engaged in eavesdropping on international phone calls and e-mails involving terrorist connections. We published that story just as the successful Iraqi elections were making the news and the Senate was voting to reauthorize the Patriot Act. The timing could not have been better for the Bush administration - it made it look as though the Times would do anything - absolutely anything - to undermine the administration and Iraqi efforts to build a functioning society."
Other examples apparently cited by Sulzberger include the fact that the Times has: 1) run Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo prison stories more than one thousand times as often as it has stories about heroic efforts of American soldiers and Iraqi citizens; 2) reported as hard news ad hominem attacks on the president by leading Democrats including statements that President Bush is worse than a Nazi and no better than Saddam Hussein; and 3) published numerous stories of little-known -- though not necessarily top secret -- military and national security information -- thus bringing it to the attention of Al-Qaeda.
Since the Times is closely associated with the Democratic party," said Steingehirn, "these decisions serve to make Democratic leaders seem unserious about terrorism, ungracious toward America's soldiers and sailors, petty about any Iraqi successes in bringing modernity to a backward region, mean-spirited about the President, careless about America's reputation in the world, unwilling to work with Republican colleagues on important legislation and profoundly ignorant about America's history, culture and meaning." said Steingehirn.
Sulzberger was apparently even harsher in his assessment: "Howells, bells!" he is reported to have said to assembled Times staffers. "The things we've done during the past four years make the New York Times appear to be either a treasonous supporter of al-Qaeda or a continuing, theatrical farce of the newspaper business.
"We've had plagiarism and lies from star reporters. We've hired a succession of bungling Executive Editors. We have almost single-handedly wiped out the reporter-source privilege by our incompetent handling of the Plame kerfuffle. The list goes on and on and none of this would have happened without a hidden, guiding hand! And the only hidden hand that is twisted and evil and demented and malicious enough to pull this off is the one attached to the hard right arm of Karl Rove!"
At the White House, Presidential Spokesman Tony Snow stated that he had spoken to Rove about the charges and that Rove is mystified.
"Karl Rove has a whole planet to run," said Snow with characteristic understatement, "he doesn't have the time or inclination to run a parochial newspaper with a declining stock price and diminishing readership."
However, many Times insiders concur with the report. Columnist Paul Krugman stated: "This explains everything. I could never have written - or more to the point - published, so much idiotic crap if Rove had not been in charge."
And columnist Maureen Dowd echoed Krugman's sentiments. "The past few years have been an unmitigated disaster for peace and freedom loving people throughout the upper east side of Manhattan. Only Karl Rove running the Times can explain that!!"
In related stories (see page 14a), executives of both the BBC and CNN have begun internal investigation to determine whether Rove is running their news divisions.
Bill Smith is a lawyer and writer in California.
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