[lbo-talk] The conservative spin on the Rove scandal

[B.]

The conservative spin on the Rove scandal ... ugh.
They come up with the weirdest ways to rationalize
what seems at face value to be flat-out wrong. Like
O'Reilly finding a way to blame Clinton and Gore for
the Enron scandals, a notion some members of my family
bought into.

Here is what one conservative net user told me in
response to the Rove leak:

"The fact that Plame hasn't left the country since
1998 makes it kind of hard to be undercover in Niger.
Besides, the 9-11 commission pretty much slammed
Wilson. Rove didn't break Plame's cover. Kerry said an
undercover agent's name several times on public TV
during a hearing."

Ihaven't been following the Rove scandal religiously
so I'm not even sure how to address this. The NY Times
"timeline" I thought covered it all.

-B.