Originally Posted By DlandDug Please understand I'm no fan of Karl Rove (too divisive), but the CBS coverage SLAYS me. While everyone else in engaging fairly straightforward coverage, with equal time given to the Democratic party response, CBS has helpfully inserted commentary in their "news" copy. EXCERPTS: >>Karl Rove Dodges A Bullet Top Bush Aide Won't Face Charges In CIA Leak Probe<< (He wasn't cleared! He dodged a bullet!) >>"Prosecutors have ethical obligations not to indict someone when they don't think they can win at trial and I suspect that may be what happened here," CBS News legal analyst Andrew Cohen says. "For whatever reason Fitzgerald the prosecutor didn't believe he could take a case against Rove to a jury and win it." << (I can just hear the sigh accompanying the phrase "For whatever reason...") >>"I've never seen, frankly, someone involved in an investigation of this kind given so many chances to continually correct and amend prior testimony. There are many prosecutors who would have indicted Rove on his first statement," George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley told CBS Radio station WBZ. "He was given a great deal of deference and quite frankly, assistance, by the prosecutor."<< (Sour grapes, thy name is CBS News.)
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Originally Posted By DlandDug >>Yeah, let's still get in a few digs at Fitzgerald...<< I'm confused. Who's getting in digs at Patrick Fitzgerald? If anyone will be villifying Fitzgerald, it will be the usual suspects on the left. Not that I blame them. It's like asking cats not to chase birds.
Originally Posted By Eric Paddon I'm happy to stay on topic. This news reminds me of what Reagan's Labor Secretary Ray Donovan went through after a similar ordeal resulted in an acquittal on all counts. The first thing he said was "Where do I go to get my reputation back?" For Howard Dean, the man who refused to condemn instinctively Saddam Hussein or Osama Bin Laden of the crimes they are guilty of, to say it's somehow bad for America when a private citizen is *not* indicted only shows how the DNC chair has a very shallow understanding of the Constitution of the United States.
Originally Posted By DlandDug >>He did an investigation and found nothing on which to indict. That's all anyone asked, that he look into this and make a call. To make more of this is to just want to further the rancor.<< Yeah, it would be... WRONG... to prejudge anyone. (Sorry, but I just couldn't help thinking of all those threads and posts about how Karl Rove was GOING DOWN, BABY! But I won't bring them up, as it would, you know, further the rancor. So we'll just pretend the whole unpleasantness never happened.)
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder "Sorry, but I just couldn't help thinking of all those threads and posts about how Karl Rove was GOING DOWN, BABY!" That would be beau, presupposing to put thoughts in other people's heads and then arguing with himself over it. Talk about furthering rancor....
Originally Posted By DlandDug Gotta love the 24/7 TV nets. I just tuned in to see how they're handling this story. Fox (surprise) is wall to wall on Bush in Iraq. CNN is talking about Karl Rove. And MSNBC... MSNBC cut abruptly away from THEIR Karl Rove story to bring us live images of actress Daryl Hannah being pulled out of a tree by peace officers in California. What a country!
Originally Posted By friendofdd I hope Daryl didn't get any twig scratches. Was she wearing her clan of the cave bear outfit or her splash outfit?
Originally Posted By DlandDug I would suppose Daryl is wearing her serious-California-intellectual-in-full-protest-mode outfit. It's the one with the horn rim glasses.
Originally Posted By woody Now that Rove is cleared, what next? Will Libby's case get dismissed? The Bush Administration scandals are more miss than hit.
Originally Posted By woody >>MSNBC cut abruptly away from THEIR Karl Rove story to bring us live images of actress Daryl Hannah being pulled out of a tree by peace officers in California.<< The mainstream media does like environmentalists.
Originally Posted By DlandDug >>Now that Rove is cleared, what next?<< The devil collects his due...?
Originally Posted By Dabob2 FWIW, I predicted Rove would skate. I think SPP's right; only Beau was sure that anyone was saying he was going down. Maybe a couple of people did, but I remember Beau putting words in people's mouths (fingers??) more than any actual such words.
Originally Posted By DlandDug >>I think SPP's right; only Beau was sure that anyone was saying he was going down.<< Some blasts from the past: <a href="http://mb.laughingplace.com/default.asp?WCI=MsgBoard&WCE=T-64303-P-1&Refresh=0613124324" target="_blank">http://mb.laughingplace.com/de fault.asp?WCI=MsgBoard&WCE=T-64303-P-1&Refresh=0613124324</a> >>Is Karl Rove In Trouble? >>Rove should at least step aside temporarily while he's embroiled in the "ongoing criminal investigation" - to use the white house's phrase.<< >>"Whoever leaked the information should be fired. However, there's no evidence that it's Rove." Keep saying it and maybe it becomes true. As has been pointed out to you already, when Rove's lawyer admits Rove did talk to the reporters, and now the White House to take comments, there's more evidence that it's him rather than you.<< <a href="http://mb.laughingplace.com/default.asp?WCI=MsgBoard&WCE=T-64302-P-1&Refresh=0613131613" target="_blank">http://mb.laughingplace.com/de fault.asp?WCI=MsgBoard&WCE=T-64302-P-1&Refresh=0613131613</a> >>Is Karl Rove In Trouble?<< (mirror thread) >>Follow through and fire up??? What was I thinking? Whoa. Let's try follow through and fire HIM. << <a href="http://mb.laughingplace.com/default.asp?WCI=MsgBoard&WCE=T-67988-P-1&Refresh=0613130036" target="_blank">http://mb.laughingplace.com/de fault.asp?WCI=MsgBoard&WCE=T-67988-P-1&Refresh=0613130036</a> >>Pay No Attention to That Man Behind the Curtain!<< >>And by the way, Rove went back for the fourth time to the special prosecutor, this time after they heard from Judith Miller. When someone goes back that many times all is not right at home.<< <a href="http://mb.laughingplace.com/default.asp?WCI=MsgBoard&WCE=T-68692-P-1&Refresh=0613123448" target="_blank">http://mb.laughingplace.com/de fault.asp?WCI=MsgBoard&WCE=T-68692-P-1&Refresh=0613123448</a> >>Predictions<< >>Rove indicted for obstruction of justice and perjury.<< <a href="http://mb.laughingplace.com/default.asp?WCI=MsgBoard&WCE=T-68784-P-1&Refresh=0613122149" target="_blank">http://mb.laughingplace.com/de fault.asp?WCI=MsgBoard&WCE=T-68784-P-1&Refresh=0613122149</a> >>It's OFFICIAL: No Rove Indictment Today<< See: Reactions <a href="http://mb.laughingplace.com/default.asp?WCI=MsgBoard&WCE=T-75671-P-1&Refresh=0613114516" target="_blank">http://mb.laughingplace.com/de fault.asp?WCI=MsgBoard&WCE=T-75671-P-1&Refresh=0613114516</a> >>...rumors are flying around the Internet about Patrick Fitzgerald finally indicting Karl Rove. Fitzgerald has said nothing publicly about it and neither has Rove, but that hasn't stopped people from talking about nor making posts about it, kinda like mine here.<< But hey, what do I know? Here's what I had to say last October, in the "Predictions" thread: >>My prediction: Karl Rove takes over AirAmerica and makes it into a great conservative institution, and is then eaten by baby sharks.<<
