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"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." --C.S. Lewis

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:: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 ::

Lorie Byrd has an excellent post on the Plame/Wilson/Rove affair with emphasis on the pretentious White House press corp. And here's Cliff May's perfect assesment:

"Two possibilities and a world of difference between them:

1) Rove knowingly exposed a covert CIA agent as a way to "punish" Joe Wilson.

2) Rove was asked why the Bush administration would send someone like Joe Wilson to Africa on a secret mission for the CIA. Rove answered: "We didn't. His wife works at the CIA. She got him the assignment."

If it's (1) Rove did wrong and probably deserves to be prosecuted.

If it's (2) Rove was merely telling the truth to a reporter about a curious situation -- unusual perhaps, but hardly criminal or even scandalous.

I know which I think is more likely. I'm not sure that will matter much to the MSM which smells blood in the water.

This is exactly right - they hate Rove so much they'll twist truth-telling into a "White House scandal". Anymore, I actually enjoy it when the main-stream pundits make complete fools out of themselves on national television. Thankfully, Polipundit watches it so I don't have to.

Best Plame/Rove post goes to Roger L. Simon:

"I certainly don't know the answer to that, but if he wasted even a minute of his time bad-mouthing Joseph C. "Our Man in Niger" Wilson and his hemi-semi-demi covert agent wife, he's not the cold-blooded strategist he is reputed to be. (But who is?)

Now the reified libs over at the NYT are reported to be riding forth in high dudgeon to support freedom of the press or their own anonymous sources - or something - in the pursuit of the nefarious presidential adviser. Off with his head, so much for Rovingham! The great game of the Administration vs. the Media goes on while in the real world people are still being unearthed from the smouldering remnants of the Underground."

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