Does Tweety really have a moral compass ?

[steve2470]

Apparently he called Wilson after getting off the phone with Rove. I thought Tweety was one of "them", the dark lords of evil.

[knowbody0]

1. and this is the first time i heard this. You?

[steve2470]

2. read it last night and again today here at gd p nt

[eleny]

11. tweety said it on his show long ago, too

[Democrat 4 Ever]

6. I've heard Tweety's name bounced around on the Plame deal.

Read somewhere that Tweety has testify before the Grand Jury. I do know he has really been toting water for BushyCo even more than usual the last few weeks.

First Tweety thought he needed to celebrate his show's 8th (8th!) anniversary (afraid he wouldn't make it to nine and didn't want to miss out on a party?). Then he spends several weeks spending show after show about religion. And now he is lobbing softball questions to the repugs and then sitting back and letting them rant on ad infinitum without anyone on the other side to even rebut the lies.

Tweety is a severely conflicted person - he has sold his soul (Tweety and Rove sitting in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g...) to the devil and the devil is now getting his due so where does that leave a "journalist?"

Hopefully without a show and up a creek without a paddle.

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

3. He's a switch hitter

Some days he is aggressive against the RW puppets and other days he sides with them. Can't figure him out.

[The Backlash Cometh]

9. The only time I've seen him aggressive against the RW is on

escalating the war in Iraq. And that's because his son is in his draftable years.

[emulatorloo]

12. He inviscerated the Swifties, dismantled Zell Miller's hate speech @ RNC

and tore up a Bush Bot because the RNC used out-of-context clips from hardball to smear John Kerry.

and after that, Rove blackballed him. Then he played nice to get back in Rove's good graces.

[gratuitous]

13. I don't recall him "dismantling" Zell Miller

I do remember an clearly-off-his-meds Zig Zag going absolutely nuts and challenging Tweety to a duel. Tweety sat there with a little smile on his ovine mug, let Zell blow himself out, then Tweety made some conciliatory noises and invited Zell to come back on Hardball anytime.

[emulatorloo]

14. paraphrasing "Senator Miller, do you seriouslybelieve Kerry would have our

troops defend themselves with spitballs?"

And then you are right, when questioned Zell went wacko, tweety was taken aback and let Zell blow himself up.

And ROVE was very upset, and Tweety was blackballed -- I remember him saying it on the Daily Show, and it was written up here and there. . .a google would probably turn up a reference but I am too lazy after a day of googling stuff on Fitzgerald for all the DUer who are worried he was hand picked by Bush or something.

[gratuitous]

15. Maybe it's just semantics

But one less-than-fawning question does not a "dismantling" make -- at least where I come from.

[neuvocat]

4. Yeah and it keep pointing south.

[peace frog]

5. Tweety was approached by the leaker

just as several other journalists were, and given the treasonous tidbit of info in hopes that he would find a way to broadcast it. So, I give him credit for not only declining to do so but also for alerting Wilson that his wife was "fair game".

Novak, the snake, was the only one to go public with the story.

[Double T]

7. Tweety is the grand bandwagon jumper of ALL time

[PurityOfEssence]

8. Yes. It unerringly points to large concentrations of money.

He's a real smorgasbord of nasty personality traits: he's vain, pompous, arrogant, superior and snide. As such, he loves siding with the Republicans because of their alleged competence.

His primary loyalty is to his own self-promotion, and as such he'll fire a volley or two at the reactionaries when it suits his purpose.

Like most intellectual thugs, he respects winning more than anything, and that's the root of much of his sneering at the left.

To make a game out of what are life-and-death decisions about the future of humanity is despicable, and that's why letting true scoundrels off the hook is so galling.

[leftofthedial]

10. his only compass points right at his bank account

I guess he has a small one that helps him to find mirrors too

[La Coliniere]

16. He's a smug, self important fool..

who loves himself far too much. I don't watch his show often because I simply don't trust him and his fake aggressive style which seems to be as much about himself as the topic or issue at hand. He sucks.

[marlakay]

17. Isn't his brother in politics and repub??

I always wondered if that was his influence. Sometimes I like him and sometimes I don't. Most of the time for the last 6 months totally on repubs side. I figured going along with the right like most of the other journalists.

[applegrove]

18. At the time - Wilson said it was someone he ran into on the street

who told a friend that "wife was fair game according to Rove". They certainly hid that well. Rove would have had no idea who the leaker to Wilson was (or if he had used those words only with Tweety) how many witnesses were involved in it.

Interesting to hear that it was a direct phone call. Talk about Wilson keeping his sources under cover.