Rove -- Thug, Coward and Now, a Smoking Gun?: Margaret Carlson

[maddezmom]

July 14 (Bloomberg) -- On TV recently, I called him a thug, this then-unknown leaker who watched from his privileged White House perch as my friend and colleague, Matt Cooper, went through hell to protect him.

Now that I know that the person is Karl Rove, I would like to revise and extend my remarks. Karl Rove is not a thug; he is a coward. Two years ago, he could have come clean, orchestrated his own redemption, saved millions in taxpayers' dollars, and spared everyone a lot of agony.

Instead, we've had a two-year investigation to find out what President George W. Bush could have walked across the hall and learned.

~snip~

At least six reporters were leaked information suggesting that Wilson was a girlie man who needed his wife to get him a job. Rove and others were angry that Wilson had debunked their assertion that Saddam Hussein had tried to buy yellowcake uranium for his weapons of mass destruction, an assessment shared by George Tenet, CIA director at the time.

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[IndianaGreen]

1. What's the meaning of this????

Margaret Carlson , who was a columnist and deputy Washington bureau chief for Time magazine, is a columnist for Bloomberg News. The opinions expressed are her own.

I didn't know that Carlson is no longer working for TIME-Warner. Is this of her own accord, or did she fail to propagandize for Bush as she had in the past?

It's high time heat shifted to the West Wing where it belongs. But that doesn't mean the reporters who were used by their sources are off the hook. Ironically, the reporter in jail, Judith Miller, didn't even write a story, perhaps because she was burned earlier for relying on anonymous sources who used her to plump for war against Saddam.

Her New York Times colleague Frank Rich noted in his column one Miller piece in particular -- ``a notoriously credulous front- page story about aluminum tubes'' -- that fueled the hawks around Bush. When the Times took the unusual step of apologizing for its WMD reporting, 10 of the 12 stories cited contained Miller's byline.

Actually I believe that Miller is covering her own criminal participation in spreading the Plame leak. There have been reports that some of the leakers were reporters that contacted government officials.

[ClintonTyree]

3. Miller is now paying the price.....

for her whoring and enabling of the bush cabal in it's run-up to the invasion of Iraq. It couldn't happen to a nicer, old whore. Notice how the bush cabal is just RUSHING to your rescue, Judith? They played you like a fiddle, and now you're no longer of any use to them. If you lay down with dogs, you're going to get fleas. She deserves every minute she spends in that cell.

[ClintonTyree]

2. If it weren't for the fact......

that Rove allowed Miller and Cooper to take the fall for him our MSM would STILL be as silent as the Sphinx about this and every other issue regarding the White House.
It would have been business as usual for these journalistic cowards had one of their own not been involved in Rove's protection.
It's sad that THIS is what it takes to get the Press in our country riled up enough to pursue lines of questioning that should have been explored long ago.
I'm not complaining, well, yes I am, but I'm glad they're finally doing their jobs. It's been a long time coming, and I hope they don't defer to their old behavior and go into hiding again when the going gets a little tough. In the words of our fearful leader, "stay the course" on this, MSM.

[Auntie Bush]

6. Yes, "stay the course"...untill "mission is completed"...if not

you will be hunted "dead or alive".

[DoYouEverWonder]

4. How refreshing

a reporter telling the truth. Maybe Carlson's move to Bloomberg has given her some new found freedom?

She definitely nails it with this quote:

"Two years ago, he could have come clean, orchestrated his own redemption, saved millions in taxpayers' dollars, and spared everyone a lot of agony."

Yep, Margaret this whole thing would be over and done with by now, if he had just done the right thing to begin with.

[wakeme2008]

5. Carlson has been in DC way too long

"I would like to revise and extend my remarks" :rofl:

[newamericanpatriot]

7. Rove...

... is such a cock.