Scotty Gets Spanked
I was very busy this weekend with The New Hampshire Review, thus the silence. The release date for our first issue is July 23rd, and I'm incredibly excited about it. Much more to come as we get closer to that date.
Today, your mission is to go watch reporters from the big three networks take Scott McClellan over their knees and whoop him hard for comments he made regarding Karl Rove's (non)involvement in the Valerie Plame affair. Link: rtsp://video.c-span.org/60days/whpb071105.rm.
You can also read about it in the New York Times. (With thanks to Josh Corey for the link.)
I wonder if any of this will force the Times to reconsider the decision they made recently to tack to the right in their news pages?
And where the hell is Robert Novak these days? How is it he's not sharing a cell with Times reporter Judith Miller? Or rather, why isn't he sitting in jail instead of Miller, who "never wrote an article about the affair..." (NY Times).
The White House is in a real pickle here, because there's simply no way they can abandon Rove. Oh, the secrets that man can tell if they hang him out to dry! That's why Scott McClellan can't stand by earlier statements in which he said the source of the leak should be fired.
Anyway, if I sound gleeful it's not because I like the corruption or drama. It's because this administration is guilty of so many wrongs for which it has not been held responsible--most significantly the illegal and immoral war in Iraq. After the last election it became clear that nothing short of an impossible-to-ignore scandal was going to remove this blight from power, and perhaps this is the beginning of the end for Bully Conservatism.
Comments
Nah, Rove isn't the type to dish the dirt. Too much of it is his.
I expect the White House will continue to express full confidence in Rove right up to the point where he falls on his sword to spare Bush further humiliation.
Posted by: Steve S | July 12, 2005 02:53 PM
I don't entirely disagree, Steve. On the other hand, I think it's difficult to predict how people will behave at these levels of power. Take, for instance, Fox News pundit Dick Morris who was an advisor to Bill Clinton for 20 years and now makes his career bashing the Clintons. I don't think Karl Rove is a true believer so much as a ruthless sleaze-bag, and for that the White House must be terrified of him. If he does fall on the sword, I imagine it will be a calculated decision on his part, and not the result of any urging from Bush.
Posted by: Ginger | July 12, 2005 03:59 PM