By e-mail, Rove told Bush adviser of interview

Associated Press ^ | July 15, 2005, 10:25PM

[popdonnelly]

It's a coverup, I tell ya! A Bush Administration coverup!

[popdonnelly]

Yeah, the Sandy Burglar story has definitely gone down the MSM Memory Hole. Could it be because it makes the Clinton Administration look bad? HMMMMM, could be.

[wildbill]

You may be right, but it's doubtful that anyone will ever see the 'heads on his wall.'

These stories have a rhythm and the popular perception is being shaped by the MSM against Rove. Just look at some of the false headlines and reporting in the stories.

You can never get those perceptions out of the public mind by the use of conservative blogs and the few people who'll be honest in the MSM and report the outcome(on page 27 of section B)

As the guy said, "where do I go to get my reputation back?"

[Dems_R_Losers]

Rove doesn't care about any of that. That's why he drives the left and the MSM so batty. He really doesn't give a crap about what is written about him or said about him. He can't be mau-maued by nasty stuff in New York Times editorials or Chuck Schumer press conferences. He doesn't frequent the Georgetown cocktail party circuit and could not care less about it. He cares about winning elections and creating a majority Republican Party for the next hundred years, and that's exactly what he is doing. This kerfuffle won't faze him a bit. Joe Wilson isn't even a pimple on his butt.

[wildbill]

I think you're right about Rove in the sense that he doesn't care about the Dems sniping at him personally.

However, they aren't after Rove;they're after Dubya and the GOP. Whatever they can do to drive down our popularity in the polls by creating doubts about the Administration's honesty/credibility will help them at the polls.

And in that sense, Rove should be attuned to the fact that Dubya is dropping in the estimation of the general population.

[FReethesheeples]

Could minor Ambassador Joe Wilson himself have been the source in blowing his own Wife's cover?

It is distinctly possible, (though it may be unlikely that Joe Wilson himself directly was NY Times Judith Miller's source), since Joe Wilson himself evidently routinely bragged openly to strangers about her CIA employment, prior to such "cover" being "blown" in the press.

Here's an example of Joe's apparently routine and open bragging about Valerie being a "CIA agent," which became known directly to me over a year ago:

He certainly bragged about it per a famous and highly reliable source's (named below) account of his own face-to-face encounter with Amb. Joe Wilson prior to Valerie Plame's "outing" as a CIA agent/employee.

Based upon a personal conversation (we were in a small group eating; it was NOT an "off the record") I had with eminent historian Victor Davis Hanson (we were at a luncheon table together during a trip to Europe), it appeared entirely possible that Joe Wilson himself was the (or one source, if not the original one) possible source in revealing his own wife's status as a CIA agent or employee.

Victor Davis Hanson (Wilson presumably knew Victor Davis Hanson wrote regularly for NRO (National Review Online), had done OpEds for the Wall street Journal, and other publications, and had his own Website with a widespread following) said he (VDH) & Joe Wilson were both in the same "Green Room" before a televised debate-discussion on Iraq, etc. and Joe first warned the TV make-up person not to get powder on his $14,000 Rolex watch, then he bragged to Victor about several things (possessions and trips to Aspen, etc.), like his expensive car (I think it was a Mercedes), and then bragged about his beautiful wife who, Joe Wilson said (braggingly) was a CIA operative.

I asked Victor Davis Hanson Why he didn't write up this account.(?) He replied that Joe Wilson would probably simply deny it, since only he (VDH) & Joe Wilson were in the Green Room together before the broadcast.

However, it is now easy to surmise that Joe Wilson is a crass, materialistic, self-promoting, vain, egotistical, bragaddocio-opportunist, so this account is perfectly consistent with Valerie Plame's TWO photo shoots in Vanity Fair. (Or was it Vogue? No, probably too crass for Vogue, n'est pas?)