Posted on 09/18/2006 9:17:37 PM PDT by Checkers
There’s also this to add to Victoria Toensing’s persuasive response to David Corn’s tortured logic: Corn does indeed begin his now notorious piece with a question: 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 … But he doesn’t end the piece with a question. He ends it with an accusaiton and a slander:: The Wilson smear was a thuggish act. Bush and his crew abused and misused intelligence to make their case for war. Now there is evidence Bushies used classified information and put the nation's counter-proliferation efforts at risk merely to settle a score. It is a sign that with this gang politics trumps national security. Patrick Casey helpfully writes that Corn “is attempting to put the Rove 'outing' canard back together” but he “can't run away from what he wrote.” Casey suggests anyone who is not yet clear on what happened read.
1) Novak's original column of 7/14/03: Mission to Niger
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertDNovak/2003/07/14/mission_to_niger
2) Corn's column two days later on 7/16/03: A White House Smear
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/capitalgames?bid=3&pid=823
3) And Cliff May's NRO column of 7/15/05: Who Exposed Secret Agent Plame?
http://www.nationalreview.com/may/may200507150827.asp
Casey adds:
David Corn attempted to shatter the reputations of several important Republican political operatives in time for the 2004 presidential elections. Now it's his reputation and honesty that is irrevocably damaged. No one 'in the know' will ever be able to hear his name again without chuckling out loud. The irony is sweet. I think that Corn and Isikoff wrote about Armitage as a preemptive move. They knew it was going to officially come out (it was already out on the internet). By getting ahead of the story, they (or at least Corn) thought they'd be able to manipulate the coverage and frame it so that they could continue the Rove conspiracy theory.”
Posted at 9:53 AM
1) Novak's original column of 7/14/03: Mission to Niger
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertDNovak/2003/07/14/mission_to_niger
2) Corn's column two days later on 7/16/03: A White House Smear
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/capitalgames?bid=3&pid=823
3) And Cliff May's NRO column of 7/15/05: Who Exposed Secret Agent Plame?
http://www.nationalreview.com/may/may200507150827.asp
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"Toensing and Corn" sounds like a problem indigenous to Iowa or Nebraska!
They put it out for only one reason - so they could take credit for it and sell books. If you write a book with David Corn, you are officially admitting that you are playing for the dark side. No more pretending to be non-partisan for Isikoff just because he got in on the Monica fiasco.
One thing about Corn is there is always Cornhuskers!
I am sure he knows how to put it to very good use.
David Gregory, David Gregory, this is your bud..David Corn...Ok, Shep (Shep Smith), ok...I forgot...you're a friend too...David Brock, oh David...have you seen the Cornhuskers...
Nice goin', guys
National Review, June 6, 2005 by Mark Steyn
TO us old Fleet Street hands, Michael Isikoff will always be the guy who lost the Monica scoop. He had the Lewinsky story first, but his bosses at Newsweek killed it at the last minute.
"Flash-forward seven years to the spring of 2005: Isikoff is still at work at Newsweek, possibly still working on trying to nail down his Monica scoop. Suddenly, "a knowledgeable U.S. government source" tips him off on a hot story: At Guantanamo Bay, interrogators got prisoners to talk by flushing a copy of the Koran down the toilet."
"And then they ran the story. And, as we now know, it sparked riots in Pakistan and elsewhere that left 15 people dead. And, unlike the fact-checked-to-death Monica story, the Qu'ran-down-the-to'ilet story turned out to be--what's the word?--untrue."
These people always get caught and I think people are just tired of hearing their same old lies and distortions.
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