ABC Blames Karl Rove for Swift Boat Ads, All Nets Scold Him for Plame Leak

Newsbusters ^ | August 14, 2007 | Brent Baker

[Recovering_Democrat]

[Steve_Seattle]

"Even after Armitage has come out and said he dropped Plames name, even after Robert Novak backs that up, the lamestream media still says it was Rove who did it."

The way I remember it, Rove confirmed the info about Plame when asked about it by a couple of reporters - Matt Cooper was one of them.

But those contacts were initiated by the reporters, not Rove, and Rove just confirmed what they already knew. There was nothing in Rove's actions, or Armitage's, to suggest that this was "payback" to "punish" Wilson. Rove and Armitage were just setting the record straight, to counter published claims that Joe Wilson was sent by, and was directly reporting to, Dick Cheney. Cheney, in fact, had never even been briefed on Wilson's report until after Wilson published his op-ed piece.

[RobbyS]

If he didn’t encourage it, he should have. After all, Kerry’s military record was mostly a lie.

[Steve_Seattle]

"It’s almost criminal that such warm and cuddly Dem saints as James Carville, Paul Begala and Bob Schrum have to deal with a vicious bloodsucker like Karl Rove."

Precisely. I don't know if any of the "dirty tricks" attributed to Rove actually happened as claimed, but I have no doubt that the Clinton White House perpetrated more dirty tricks against Kenneth Starr in one year than Rove has perpetrated in his entire life.

[ozzymandus]

Hey ABC, where’s kerry’s Form 180??

[denydenydeny]

Since then, he's been on the defensive over the leaking of a CIA agent's name as political payback against her husband,

They are so invested in this lie that they can't not repeat it.

and for his part in the fired U.S. attorneys scandal, in which he has rejected Congress' right to subpoena him.

Um, no, it's the CONSTITUTION that does that.