Another Lie From the New Pravda
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July 18, 2005
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Fleischer with the Special Notebook in AF1 Giving Novak BigBig Phone.
Plus Speculation Fitzgerald is hunting Elephant
all via Bloomberg of all places….
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=awksAN7mYRZY&refer=us
Posted by: TimR | Jul 18 2005 7:04 utc | 1
Well I guess that since this scandal is hitting too close to home for all news organizations, we may see a circling of the wagons soon, if not now.
What shocked me today on Press The Meat is this little back and forth between Woodward and Russert.
MR. WOODWARD: And you know what? The special prosecutor, Fitzgerald, in a way, has discovered that there is an underground railroad of information in Washington. [to Russert] You’re smiling because no one knows more about it than you.
[Russert does not respond and pretends he doesn’t hear what Woodward just said. Woodward continues,]
MR. WOODWARD: Well, you talk to people, you talk to somebody in the White House or the CIA or the Democratic Party, and you say, “I’ve heard or I understand; what are you hearing?” And one of the discoveries in all of this is that reporters, in asking questions, convey information to even somebody like Karl Rove. Where did he first learn important elements of this? From a reporter. Now, my view, and I think Carl agrees with this, this investigation, though properly empowered, is an assault on that process that we have not just in Washington, any other community in this country where we have a First Amendment, and he will wind up crippling that process by dragging reporters before the grand jury. And I wonder if he and the judge have really sat down and said, “Now, what are we going to gain here vs. what are we going to lose?” And the loss might be immense.
Italicized text my own.
The funny part was, Russert tried to feign like he had no clue what the hell Woodward was talking about. It almost made me howl. You see, according to Woodward, the biggest problem with this scandal is not a criminal Presidency, but the fact that Fitzgerald may be hurting the cozy relationship between politicos and the press.
Posted by: Bubb Rubb | Jul 18 2005 8:34 utc | 4
washington is its own little world and we are just the peanut gallery. they are in a fish bowl, kind of like high school. are we rocking their boat? making them uncomfortable? accountable? what’s that. forget the world turning this should be called ‘as the world spins’. consequences ?what are they. more than a rude awakening they need a reckoning.
as the blood pours
Posted by: annie | Jul 18 2005 8:48 utc | 5
Woodward disgusts me. He has his head up his fine first amendment ass while the thugs of the GOP use the Press to control the nation. The Republicans willing accomplices. “Good” Americans. The GOPs willing executioners. Collaborators.
Posted by: Scott McArthur | Jul 18 2005 13:28 utc | 6
With Rove now under the microscope, the word on the street is that Bush is going to announce his Supreme Court nomination sooner than expected to take some of the heat off of his old friend Karl. This site has some good info… http://www.supremecourtwatch.org/insider_scoop/index.aspx .
Posted by: Ali | Jul 18 2005 18:25 utc | 7
I tend to doubt that the shrub is making these decisions…
Posted by: rapt | Jul 18 2005 21:47 utc | 8