Talking Points appear to be all over the MSM!!

[lyonn]

Referring to the usual repub talking point memo type thing. Ed Rollins was just on Mathews program emphatic about Libby's innocence. Now Scarborough is saying the same thing on Tucker's show. It is called deny and counterclaim. Also called BS.

Can't wait for someone to get a copy of the White House Talking Point Memo. We usually get word of it within 24 hours of the dispersement of the document. I'm lovin' it. They are nearly dribbling from the mouth with the denials.

[librechik]

1. did the word "travesty" make an appearance?

that meme is as good as "slow bleed--" And just as ubiquitous.

[lyonn]

2. Don't recall hearing Travesty but "He Did Not Lie"

was repeated over and over. And, the "he said, she said" is one they like. Saying the reporters words against Libby's.

[lyonn]

4. Also, they shout Fitz shouldn't have gone after him for lying to

the grand jury and that Fitz needs a life. They really think that the lying thing is nothing, which makes one wonder why Clinton was impeached for telling a lie about sex???

[emulatorloo]

5. Funny how they forget about the Govt Officials who testified they discussed Plame w Libby

and only focus on the reporters.

C'mon Libby had NINE conversations about Plame and he couldn't remember any of them except the one he MADE UP.

[Stinky The Clown]

3. Thanks! You saved me a post ...... the Great Wurlitzer is singing like it never sang before

[lyonn]

6. Maybe the bushies got smarter about their Talking Point Memo

and kept them a bit more secret, but I just know the memo is out there. The repubs are all in sync.

[C_U_L8R]

7. It's the mark of the Cheney

I'm now convinced Cheney personally writes most of the talking points

[spooky3]

8. Fabulous MediaMatters responses to all the TPs

http://mediamatters.org/items/200703060008?offset=80&show=1#comments

In anticipation of this misinformation, Media Matters for America has listed those baseless and false claims likely to surface in the coming days and weeks:

* No underlying crime was committed. Since a federal grand jury indicted Libby in October 2005, numerous media figures have stated that the nature of the charges against him prove that special counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald's investigation of the CIA leak case found that no underlying crime had been committed. But this assertion ignores Fitzgerald's explanation that Libby's obstructions prevented him -- and the grand jury -- from determining whether the alleged leak violated federal law.
* There was no concerted White House effort to smear Wilson. In his October 2005 press conference announcing Libby's indictment, Fitzgerald alleged that, in 2003, "multiple people in the White House" engaged in a "concerted action" to "discredit, punish, or seek revenge against" former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV. In August 2006, it came to light that then-deputy secretary of State Richard Armitage was the original source for syndicated columnist Robert D. Novak's July 14, 2003, column exposing CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity. Numerous conservative media figures subsequently claimed that this revelation disproved the notion of a "concerted" White House effort to smear Wilson. But to the contrary, David Corn -- Washington editor of The Nation and co-author of Hubris (Crown, 2006) the book that revealed Armitage's role in the leak -- noted on his Nation weblog that Armitage "abetted a White House campaign under way to undermine Wilson" and that whether he deliberately leaked Plame's identity, "the public role is without question: senior White House aides wanted to use Valerie Wilson's CIA employment against her husband."

much much more at MMFA

[Supersedeas]

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