How the Mainstream Media Created Rovegate

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How the Mainstream Media Created Rovegate (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1453105/posts)

<SMALL>Accuracy in Media ^ (http://www.freerepublic.com/^http://www.aim.org/media_monitor/3876_0_2_0_C)| July 28, 2005 | Cliff Kincaid</SMALL>


In a July 17 story, Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen of the Washington Post had to admit, in recapping White House statements about the Valerie Plame case, that White House spokesman Scott McClellan was usually careful to disavow involvement "in any illegal leak, though his public statements clearly left an impression of a White House aloof to the affair."

This is the key to understanding White House statements about the case and the reported White House role. If you read the transcripts of McClellan's briefings, it is clear that McClellan had denied a White House role in a criminal disclosure of classified information.

But in order to make it seem that the White House was not leveling with the American people or that it was caught in a contradiction, reporters at press briefings misrepresented the McClellan position as one that had denied any White House involvement at all in even mentioning or discussing the case with journalists.

But that's of course ridiculous. Officials leak information all the time and many journalists rely on that information. The issue is whether officials were involved in an illegal leak of information. But when McClellan then took the stand that he would not comment any more on the case because of the ongoing investigation, members of the White House press corps descended like sharks in the water, creating the impression that there was a cover-up.


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[DesertFox]

The Left invents shit all the time. All they do is look at what the NY Times yellow journalists publish and jump aboard.

[Venus de Smilo]

The NYT is a radioactive bomb in the center of a centrifuge with journalists orbiting around it, attached through physics but each moving independently. If American journalism had an Olympics where each journalist could prove he'd made his bones, this is it. Each yearns for his own Deep Throat and his own Watergate.

So far, there's nothing on the administration - no dirt, no "There, gotcha!" Any person with one objective brain cell can see how they foam at the mouth to bloody the nose of this administration where there's nothing, yet bent over backwards to NOT report the Lewinsky story and, when forced to report on it after Drudge broke the story that Newsweek wouldn't, refused for .....what?....two years?......to explain the nexus between Lewinsky and perjury in the Paula Jones case. Nope, they couldn't connect those tangible dots, but now rage on because they're seeing spots before their eyes. Not only that, unlike the impeachment of Bubba, this case isn't even about the president, yet the way they're after Rove one would think he is the president.

They still win some battles now and then, but they're losing the war. No longer do they control the dialogue in this country, and it's their own doing.

[Wyatt_Junker]

The NYT is a radioactive bomb in the center of a centrifuge with journalists orbiting around it, attached through physics but each moving independently. If American journalism had an Olympics where each journalist could prove he'd made his bones, this is it. Each yearns for his own Deep Throat and his own Watergate.


Classic.

and very true

[DesertFox]

The NYT is a radioactive bomb in the center of a centrifuge with journalists orbiting around it, attached through physics but each moving independently. If American journalism had an Olympics where each journalist could prove he'd made his bones, this is it. Each yearns for his own Deep Throat and his own Watergate.

So far, there's nothing on the administration - no dirt, no "There, gotcha!" Any person with one objective brain cell can see how they foam at the mouth to bloody the nose of this administration where there's nothing, yet bent over backwards to NOT report the Lewinsky story and, when forced to report on it after Drudge broke the story that Newsweek wouldn't, refused for .....what?....two years?......to explain the nexus between Lewinsky and perjury in the Paula Jones case. Nope, they couldn't connect those tangible dots, but now rage on because they're seeing spots before their eyes. Not only that, unlike the impeachment of Bubba, this case isn't even about the president, yet the way they're after Rove one would think he is the president.

They still win some battles now and then, but they're losing the war. No longer do they control the dialogue in this country, and it's their own doing.That's as good a post as I've seen here since the days of Sniper. :claps:

[Bluemoon_Rising]

Wow! Venus, I'm at your feet. Ann Coulter, move over.

[Warlady]

Venus is one sexy brainiac.

[Pendragon_6]

Venus:

An intuitive, thought-provoking post. Well done.

[UnkHiram]

Wow, I wish I had written this. (I am referring to Venus's response)

[Naturalized-Texan]

Wow! Venus, I'm at your feet. Ann Coulter, move over.
Now you know why I voted for her for POM.

[Warlady]

It should be renamed "Nadagate" instead of Rovegate. Or Plamewilsongate or wilsonplamegate.

[DesertFox]

Plamegame.