When it comes to investigating Dems, the MSM is all Moveon.org. But when a Republican is potentially in the crosshairs, the liberal media suddenly goes Eliot Ness . . . Posted on 08/14/2007 3:56:43 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
When it comes to investigating Dems, the MSM is all Moveon.org. But when a Republican is potentially in the crosshairs, the liberal media suddenly goes Eliot Ness . . .
Take the New York Times editorial of this morning, Mr. Rove Gets Out of Town, which amounts to an extended plea to Democrats to investigate Karl Rove on matters sundry. Huffs the Times:
The American public needs to understand the full story of how this White House — with Mr. Rove pulling many of the strings — has spent the last six and a half years improperly and dangerously politicizing the federal government. Mr. Rove is already defying one Congressional subpoena to testify about the United States attorneys scandal. He should be made to respond to that one, and should also be subpoenaed to explain his role in several other cases of crass politicization.
Some "scandal," one in which no one has denied the right of the president to have fired the attorneys in question. But never mind. A scandal is in the eyes of the beholder, and for the Times, this is apparently big stuff.
Let's consider what might happen if the Dems follow the Times' advice. Between now and election day 2008, the headlines and cablewaves will be charged with the profoundly unilluminating spectacle of a bunch of Dem committee members in various states of manufactured outrage inveighing against the mild-mannered Rove about something in which the American people are largely uninterested.
And rather than the Dem presidential contenders and ultimately the party's candidate, the face of the Democratic party will be Senate Judiciary chairman Patrick Leahy and House Judiciary chairman John Conyers, along with fellow Senate committee members like Ted Kennedy, Joe Biden and Chuck Schumer, and Jerry Nadler, Robert Wexler, Sheila Jackson Lee and Maxine Waters of the House committee.
It might be an uncomfortable episode for Mr. Rove. But I'm guessing Republican strategists might well be thinking: by all means, throw us in that briar patch!
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Bring on Pat Leahy ping to Today show list.
such a biased, lying politically motivated communist gossip rag should NOT be given press pases, invited to press galleries, allowed to be embedded in military actions, or given ANY privilege reserved for legitimate press. They are co-conspirators with the enemy, out to ruin the nation with the Democrats. They ignore the corruption within the democrat party, not a peep about democrat brides, Clinton frauds, Kery frauds lies and traitorous acts, but Carl Rove quits, and accusations fly, or accusations that there must be ,i>something wrong, they don't know what, but an inquiry should be held to find out....
What a joke of a "newspaper"
It’s strange reading a hatchet piece on Rove without seeing the phrase “outted Plame”.
Keep it up Leahy, maybe you can get those negatives down even
further to appease the KOS and DU jerks!!
Thank God the New York Times is dying.
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DU is a google news source?
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