MSM on Nadagate: A miserable failure
Just how many times were the words “shift in policy” or some variant of them (wrongly) used by the mainstream press in articles regarding the President’s comments today about Nadagate? Too many.
Plamegate: a retrospective
Rather than me attempting to put it all together, I’ll just direct you to a blogger who already has. Meet Fat Steve (that’s what he calls himself!), who’s put together a pretty comprehensive history of Plamegate, and how this story has pretty much collapsed in the faces of the Bush haters.
John Dean’s wishful thinking
Even in light of the revelation that Rove learned of Plame’s identity from another journalist, John Dean makes the murkiest case yet for Rove’s guilt. See if you can make sense of it. I can’t. What I can conclude, however, is that it sounds like wishful thinking on his part (like so many others who’ve been so hopeful this witchhunt would expose the true eeevilness of Karl Rove for all to see). You be the judge.
Rove and Novak: Pieces falling into place
Let’s do a little backstory here. First, Novak’s assertion from 10/1/2003 (emphasis added):
Plamegate: Has perception become reality?
The more information that becomes available about Rove’s conversation with the Time’s Matt Cooper, the more obvious it seems (at least to me, anyway) that not only did Rove not leak Plame’s name, but in fact, Cooper was the one who called Rove – suggesting that Rove wasn’t actively hunting for reporters he could use to help throw Plame’s name out into the limelight. John Podhoretz picked up on this, too:
More from the “Joe Wilson is a liar” file
The WSJ today continues the smackdown the conservative media is laying on Joe Wilson since the release of the Senate Intelligence Committee Report earlier this week.