Posted on 08/29/2006 7:13:53 AM PDT by bobsunshine
Fox needs to FIRE David Corn!!! He is a LIAR!! He MUST be FIRED if Fox has any FAIRNESS left!! PUBLICLY FIRE HIS ARSE!!
Is he working for Fox? I don't think so. He writes for The Nation.
Drive-By Media. I think Rush first came up with the term, comparing the media's tactics to a drive-by shooting.
David Corn is a FOX Contributor and should be FIRED!!
And where, pray, is Mr. Armitage now? He is the most shameful person in all of this (except for Fitz). He could have come out on day 1. He could have come out when he was bashing the Bush administration after having left, the slimy weasel.
Now, after all of this nonsense, reporters going to jail, Lewis Libby getting suspended and indicted (and Libby should punch Armitage in the face on national television) all because of a political dustup over a non-story promulgated by a Bush-hater.
It is delicious, I have to say, that it is Armitage.
Perfect question. But I think she did end up going because she was "protecting" Libby even though he let her off the hook long ago.
I think it would have been bad character to snitch on Armitage, but Powell should have (and IIRC, he did, but not aggressively enough IMHO) downplayed this as hard as he could in general terms.
To be fair, Novak told Fitz. It is Fitz who made other people twist. Well, him and Armitage himself.
I prefer the term, "KOZmonauts" because thet're spaced out.
I think Novak did, in so many words. He did say it wasn't "a partisan gunslinger". (BTW, this is probably untrue. Armitage is, in fact, a partisan gunslinger -- for the other party.)
David Corn is a monstrous hypocrite. He is the person who first leveled the charge that the administration outed Plame in order to harm Wilson.
The following two paragraphs are from a piece I did here on FR in 2003 entitled Set up? Anatomy of the contrived Wilson "scandal."
The first charge that the Bush administration "outed" Wilson's wife in order to "punish" him comes in a piece by David Corn in The Nation on July 16 [2003]—a scant two days after Novak's piece appeared. Titled, "A White House Smear," the piece begins with a suitably inflammatory Leftist spin:"Did senior Bush officials blow the cover of a US intelligence officer working covertly in a field of vital importance to national security-and break the law-in order to strike at a Bush administration critic and intimidate others?...It sure looks that way, if conservative journalist Bob Novak can be trusted."
David Corn was an integral part of the cabal who ginned this phony story into a scandal. Now he's writing about it in the third person, as though others are responsible for what he, himself, did. And yes, the writer of the posted article above is correct -- Corn is doing this to make dirty money off the vicious deceit he has perpetrated on the American public since 2003.
I wonder how much. It's not the "Merry Fitzmas" storytale the KOZmanuts wanted and we know Corn's a creep. So who's going to buy this dog?
"Truth" is the turd floating in their Fitzmas punchbowl
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Interesting to note that the two major newspapers that were umost instrumental in using Plamegate to bludgeon the White House have a curious way of reporting this. The NY Slimes didn't cover this at all. The LA Slimes had a mention of it in an entertaiment article.
Corn and Isikoff get the customary advance. For well-known authors like them, it would be a substantial amount.
So who's going to buy this dog?
Enough people will be curious to at least make the book profitable, even if it doesn't rise too high on the best seller lists.
Having answered your questions, though, I think you miss the point. Even if Corn makes only a single dollar profit off this book, it's one dollar too many. Why? Acting in concert with a cabal of Leftist journalists and the Wilsons, Corn is the person who first raised the totally libelous charge that the administration was out to smear Wilson by outing his wife.
THANKS!! I'm thick this A.M.
Not defending Novak here, but didn't he do as much? Didn't he say, something like, the leaker was not a partisan and was not in the administration? The fault lies with the MSM which ignored Novak's exculpatory comment.
If I remember correctly, Fitz went to a Federal judge early on to get the investigation expanded, extended or both.
The judge granted his request, saying he did so because of the seriousness of the matter.
That judge should revisit Fitz's request to see if he or she was taken for a ride, and act accordingly.
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