I have now been turned into the story—again. Robert Luskin and Mark Corallo, Rove’s attorney and spokesman, are liars. Damned liars. I have five sources on this. In the news business when you want to discredit a reporter and an explosive report you call the spokesman and get him to issue a denial. My reports have gone way beyond the spokesman and the lawyer to get to the truth. I am SHOCKED that the mainstream have followed this up by simply calling a spokesman.
I am amazed that the blogosphere would lend credence to the statements of people who have consistently lied about Rove’s role in this case. This is a White House that denied Rove’s involvement in the leak. This is a White House that has lied and lied and lied. And yet the first question that people ask is “why would Rove’s spokesman lie?” Because they can, because they do, and because they have. This is an administration that has attacked and discredited their detractors. I am amazed that not a single reporter would actually do any real investigative work and get to the bottom of this story. Surely, their must be another intrepid reporter out there that has sources beyond a spokesman.
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
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"You can't believe what you read on the Internet."
I'm sure some folks are familiar with this argument. :) Of course, the easy rebuttal is...Judith Miller. I prefer Internet based journalism (warts and all) over the MSM manipulation that passes for "credible" news.
oldschool - he is way out there, huh. i'm rooting for him too.
noise - you are correct - there's much chutzpah wrt the msm. how dare they?
But why would they lie when it will all come out eventually? That's what doesn't make sense. I don't think they'd do it just cause they can.
Any ideas?
- Jiminy Cricket
Jiminy - i don't know the facts, but it's entirely feasible that they are lying to push the story out a few days (past bush's speech for example), or a few weeks or whatever.
There's an approach-avoidance phenomenon going on here. The more clear it becomes the MSM has been had the more stoutly they go into denial. To date it's been an exercise in dragging the feet. As more indictments and scandals come down the MSM will go proactive. I suspect stories will simply not be mentioned, scare campaigns by Bush will reported as holy writ. It's something of an historical 'saddle point' where the MSM can strongly go one way or the other. My bet is the Bush rapture will be too hard to resist and media compliance will become total. Watch out for them terrists now!
- oh, and get ready to blog from Yuma Holding Camp 1729.
You think they'd do that, lie to buy a couple of days, despite blowback? Why do they need a couple of days? Isn't it weird how quiet the MSM is? It's like we are in the eye of the storm.
- Jiminy Cricket
damien. Yuma Holding Camp 1729? that's my favourite camp of all. yippee.
i agree that we are at an inflexion point. unlike you, i'm slightly optimistic that the corpmedia will be more, rather than less, inclined to grow a spine - although their performance during the goss/foggo episode wasn't very promising.
jiminy - yeah, i dont doubt that they would lie to buy a couple of days (altho i'm not saying that they are in this case)
blowback? what blowback? for a lawyer and a spokesperson to tell some lies for their client? surely not. they have been largely given the benefit of the doubt this weekend despite all the lies we've heard over the last 18 months in this case...
why do they need a couple of days? dont know.
it really does feel like the eye of a storm. very spooky.
Pulling comments from a couple of threads:
"There's an eerie push/pull dynamic to the recent shrillness"
there sure is. not just for the righties, either. the whole environment feels like its about to explode.
and
why do they need a couple of days? dont know.
it really does feel like the eye of a storm. very spooky.
Like, with all of the events and revelations of the last couple of weeks and, IMO, an almost quiet franticness in the Fitz filings lately, something's coming to a head?
Quoth Scarborough: Be afraid.
"like something's coming to a head?"
actually, more likely THINGS are coming to HEADS - we've got factions trying to protect their own turf, people trying to save their own asses, people using the weakness to out each other, and gain more turf and, and, and... i'm thinking of the mafiosi massacres that occur after years of silence/stability as everything escalates into an all-or-nothing game.
be afraid.
They lie all the time. Why not now? It would stick out, if they were truthful. They needed their little uptick in the polls from Busholini's "protecting our borders from terrorists" speech. If you're drowning, why paddle? Because.
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