Here's the Real Scandal
Check out Byron York's piece. It's a primer on how the press works. Note how self-dramatizing, self-congratulatory -- and how agenda driven -- Matthew Cooper (Profile in Courage) is. After HE called Karl Rove on welfare reform, they had a two-minute conversation about wmd, during which Rove warned Cooper against going out on a limb about Wilson's assertions (and indeed, the information did turn out to be wrong).
What did Rove get for his trouble? A story that wrongly implied that he had sought out reporters to wage "war" on liar Joseph Wilson.
What's more, apparently Rove "released" everyone from any confidentiality pledge in December of 2003. Cooper just created a dramatic, last minute story because it would sound better.
It seems that expecting journalists to be guardians of the truth is like depending on all lawyers to be the guardians of justice. Again, the real scandal in Washington is proven to be -- not what's illegal -- but how routine "business" is conducted . . . in this case, by the press.
Update: Check the comment below posted by angry lefty Jesse, who writes "Iraq really WAS trying to get uranium from Niger? No, it wasn't. Bush was the liar, not Wilson."
Hate to ruin your day, Jess -- but check out this 7/10/04 piece from The Washington Post, outlining the bipartisan Senate intelligence committee report that dispositively demonstrates that Wilson was a liar.
Money quote: "According to the former Niger mining minister, Wilson told his CIA contacts, Iraq tried to buy 400 tons of uranium in 1998." But thanks anyway for playing, Jesse.
What did Rove get for his trouble? A story that wrongly implied that he had sought out reporters to wage "war" on liar Joseph Wilson.
What's more, apparently Rove "released" everyone from any confidentiality pledge in December of 2003. Cooper just created a dramatic, last minute story because it would sound better.
It seems that expecting journalists to be guardians of the truth is like depending on all lawyers to be the guardians of justice. Again, the real scandal in Washington is proven to be -- not what's illegal -- but how routine "business" is conducted . . . in this case, by the press.
Update: Check the comment below posted by angry lefty Jesse, who writes "Iraq really WAS trying to get uranium from Niger? No, it wasn't. Bush was the liar, not Wilson."
Hate to ruin your day, Jess -- but check out this 7/10/04 piece from The Washington Post, outlining the bipartisan Senate intelligence committee report that dispositively demonstrates that Wilson was a liar.
Money quote: "According to the former Niger mining minister, Wilson told his CIA contacts, Iraq tried to buy 400 tons of uranium in 1998." But thanks anyway for playing, Jesse.
posted by LadybugUSA at 1:41 PM
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