Sometimes I feel like I’m living in a Twilight Zone episode. You know, the one where you wake up one day and everything is opposite. Night is day, this is not my beautiful house, this is not my beautiful wife kind of thing. Because each time I read the latest piece that seems to suggest the dominoes are about to fall for Karl Rove, a strange sensation resembling a lighting bolt shoots through my head. That strange feeling actually turns out to be my brain telling me that, in fact, I am presently living in the year 2005, not 1995. Because if it were, Karl Rove would have been toast a long time ago.
Lost somewhere in the fabric of space and time is the idea of a media that actually helps hold the government accountable. The last time we saw the media act in this manner, the action needing accountability was a blow job. Fast forward ten years later, we couldn’t have more serious issues to get to the bottom of, and accountability has gone out the window. This is precisely the reason why I read something like this and think, no fucking shit.
Hello, Washington Press Corps. What is the thirty year rule that has defined every White House scandal since Watergate? It is not the crime, it’s the cover-up that gets you in trouble. And this White House has been actively covering up Karl Rove’s role in the Plame leak since 2003.Karl Rove and Scott McClellan have been lying to you for two years about Rove’s involvement in the Plame leak. Okay? Lying. For two years.
Scott McClellan said “the president knows that Karl Rove wasn’t involved.” Not that “the president knows Karl Rove told Matt Cooper that Ambassador Wilson’s wife was a CIA agent working on weapons of mass destruction but slyly didn’t tell Cooper Plame’s name” — he said “the president knows that Karl Rove wasn’t involved.” That is not true.
Scott McClellan said “There’s nothing, absolutely nothing, brought to our attention to suggest any White House involvement.” He said it was a “ridiculous suggestion” to say that Rove had any involvement in the leak.
In 2003, Karl Rove denied to ABC news about even having any knowledge about the leak. Later he told CNN that “I didn’t know her name and didn’t leak her name.”
Those are statements that would make Lanny Davis blush. Are you really going to let Rove get away with that?
Yes. If it wasn’t for the fact that time, inevitably, moves forward, the Karl Rove story would never see the light of day. As investigations gather speed, all it takes is reading court transcripts to get the big picture. Nowadays, those transcripts are a hell of a lot more informative then anything resembling journalism.
So the reason Karl and Scottie have been able to lie for two years and get away with it? Because sex sells, this story ain't sexy, and most people don't give a shit about the outing of a CIA agent. If you think that’s not the case, then you either lived on Mars during the 90s or you smoke too much weed.