What's the Frequency, Kenneth! Thank you, Dan Rather! Re: Rove.

[McCamy Taylor]

The Press is acting like the Press (to quote John Stewart from the Daily Show last night) for one simple reason. Karl Rove has been all over the press for years, using and then abusing journalists for political gain. However, his ambition took him too far when he set up Dan Rather and his 60 Minutes Producer Mary Mapes for a fall last summer. The press watched in horror as one of its heroes was tossed out with the bathwater by his own networks in order to please the * administration. The press knew quite well who was the blame. Rove enjoys letting everyone know that he is the one pulling the strings. It increases his prestige.

Stupid Rove. He should have known that this day would come.

It does not matter how high they escalate the terror warnings or how many bombs explode. * can pardon him and award him a dozen medals of honor. From here on out, the Press will be referring to Bush' Brain as Karl "The Traitor" Rove.

It is the least they can do for Dan Rather and Mary Mapes, whom they did not have the guts to support in their hour of darkness.

http://www.grandtheftelectionohio.com/050206.htm

[mtnester]

1. When there is blood in the water...the barracuda will turn on the bleeder

and strip him clean to the bone. Such is life, and so it will always be.

Somtimes it is ALL about timing, and the sweetest dessert of them all...revenge

[sunnystarr]

2. Didn't Jon Stewart say

last night that someone removed the WH Press Corp and replaced them with REAL reporters? I spit out my coke laughing at line lol ... I just LOVE Jon Stewart!! His Rove/Plame/Wilson coverage was great last night.

[REACTIVATED IN CT]

8. Yes - he whispered ...

" we have secretly replaced the White House Press Corps with REAL reporters" - like it was an episode of Candid Camera! It was priceless!

[mitchtv]

3. I haven't seen it yet

karl, the traitor, that is. You expect too much from these simpering stenographers. I hope to be proven wrong

[Eloriel]

7. Oy! Not only that, PLEASE don't count any chickens before they're

hatched. Whoooeeee. Makes me very nervous. Of course, I'm not one who has particularly expected this to come to anything, really, but I still have a slimmer of HOPE. Talk like this takes it away.

[mitchtv]

11. My mother used to say

" If wishes were horses, beggars would ride".
Whatever happened to the DSM?

[GreenPartyVoter]

16. The opening is there. It ties into the Plame affiar.

[NVMojo]

4. they are slamming down finally, thank heaven!

[LSparkle]

5. This was the straw that broke the camel's back for the press

You're absolutely right -- the WH has been able to lie to the American people for the past 4+ years but now they've stooped to lying to the PRESS. No wonder Bob Franken considered it "not worth it" to ask McClellan one more question the other day.

It's now become obvious that it's the White House -- not the "liberal media" -- that has a SERIOUS credibility problem.

[bobbieinok]

17. I think they have always lied to the press; press is just a conduit to the

people.....so thinketh the bushco gang

cartoon bushco pours words into press's ear and the words come out the press's mouth

[lateo]

6. That is giving the press too much credit.

They don't need Rove to have their strings pulled.

[MsTryska]

9. to quote Jimmy Cliff.....

"the harder they come, the harder they'll fall, one and all"

[Matariki]

10. Benedict Rove

it has a certain ring to it

or considering his favorite food is 'eggies': Roves Benedict :P

[JNelson6563]

12. Consider too that two "journalists" faced prison

with one of them actually going to the slammer. That's gotta be the clincher in this deal. Set up a media member and leave 'em swingin' in the wind when the boom drops. If that doesn't serve as a wake up call to the complicit press nothing will. Seems it was effective.

Yes, nothing upsets the prima donnas of the press like watching their own get screwed. It's ok that Team Bush has slaughtered over 100,000 innocent Iraqi's but go after fellow media members, well that's where they draw the line!!

I'm glad to see 'em acting like "the press" again but they are due for some heavy reckoning.

Julie

[calimary]

14. Also, I think Mike Isikoff is still smarting for being hung out to dry in

the Koran-flushing story, as is "Newsweek" in general. After all, this White House had the gall to blame "Newsweek" for the bad reputation America has in the Islamic world. Um... gee, like our illegal, immoral war and our torture chambers had NOTHING to do with it... I think Isikoff got a cold, hard, slap in the face by reality as to what users these "people" are, and he decided he's through being their good little boy. He sure chased that stained blue dress business like a starving dog on a bloody bone, and look what it got him. He's learned the hard way that loyalty with these people is a one-way street - they expect it unconditionally, but unless you're really in the inner circle, you are utterly expendable. I think Mr. Isikoff is taking this personally, because he does seem to have something of a taste for this story, and he isn't coming on the talk shows to "put it in perspective" (like the completely useless Dana Milbank does) or sand the rough edges off.

I remember the deafening silence when Helen Thomas was "put in her place" for asking too many "uppity" questions. And NOT A SOUL in the White House Press Corpse stood up for her or expressed outrage or protested her being banished to the back of the room. NOT A SOUL.

I can hear Isikoff's mind working now...

When they came for Helen Thomas, I didn't say anything, because I wasn't her. Besides, I'm untouchable because they loved me on the Monica thing.

When they came for Dan Rather and Mary Mapes, I didn't say anything, because I'm not them. Besides, I don't want to screw up my access.

When they came for Judith Miller and Matthew Cooper - and sent Miller to jail, I didn't say anything because I wasn't them. Besides, I'm still in with the "in" crowd. Aren't I?

But then they came after me at "Newsweek" and screwed me royally, before the whole world. Maybe it's time I started paying attention...

[bunny planet]

13. Just wait until it gets back to them that a Republican (King from NY)

actually said that Tim Russert and other reporters should be SHOT and that KKKarl is the hero.

Let's see to it that they do hear about Representative King's remarks. I think I'll send Keith an email.

[McCamy Taylor]

15. Fitzgerald should add Rathergate, someone forged an Army document

That someone was probably a known forger working for Rove. If it could be proved that Rove was involved, this would show a pattern of criminal activity of this type making the Plame matter all the more sinister.

However, Fiztgerald would probably have to get Gonzales's ok to broaden the scope of the investigation, which is as likely as Hell freezing over---UNLESS some intrepid reporter does some snooping and then drops in the information in the Special Prosecutor's lap, so that he cant ignore it and its relevance to his prime suspect. (Hint, hint. I hear that Mary Mapes is working on a book. Maybe that book should be about how the forged memo got forged and by whom. The public would love a book like this right about now.)