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

snitsnat snitilicious at tampabay.rr.com
Fri Jul 15 14:08:40 PDT 2005


At 04:35 PM 7/15/2005, B. wrote:
>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.

Keep your eye on the bouncing ball and avoid the lyrics. :) See, if she wasn't really an agency operative, whose cover should have been protected, then WHY exactly has the CIA kept silent on this for a couple of years. They could have ended all this years ago by saying, "She wasn't an undercover operative with NOC status. She was an agent, a desk jockey at Langley. No law was broken, no cover blown." Keep pressing them. Oh, so if she was a NOC, if knowing her name wasn't important, then why all the hullabaloo. Why did Pere Bush express outrage to Wilson? Why have all these conservatives expressed outrage. No one could figure out over a year ago that no crime had been committed? HEy what?"

No one would have sent Miller to Jail. Rove's name never would have come up. No investigation.

Learn about logical fallacies, spot them, and don't address them. Kerry is a red herring, ignore it. Don't give credence to an unethical mode of discourse.


>They are getting their claims from statements made by Wilson in an
>interview with Blitzer. IT's at atrios.blogspot.com. But, if you read it,
>the context makes it clear that he's not saying she wasn't undercover.

They are also getting their spew from Wilson's book.

Wiki has an OK entry. The blog that's been most into this was Kevin Drum, IIRC.

Otherwise, if they are mushrooms, just don't waste your time. It's like banging your head against a concrete wall and, I don't know about you, but I don't like wallhead?!

Kelley

"Finish your beer. There are sober kids in India."

-- rwmartin



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