If it’s Sunday, I’m cooking breakfast - and it’s “Meet the Press.”
I was in the kitchen when Sunday’s edition came on, with guest host David Gregory. As I settled down to eat, I heard the guest’s machine-gun pom-pom of Republican talking points.
“WHO is this guy?” I asked out loud. He had the talking points down pat! I walked to the TV to try to catch his voice.
Of course, he did – he wrote them.
Karl Rove.
Most of Monday’s media reports on the Rove appearance concentrated on what he had to say about Sen. Hillary Clinton’s candidacy.
Overlooked was Rove’s “he said, I said” tap dance around what he told columnist Robert Novak about outed CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson.
NOVAK: “I mentioned I had heard that Wilson’s wife worked at the CIA in the counterproliferation section, and that she had suggested Wilson be sent to Niger. I distinctly remember Rove’s reply, ‘Oh, you know that, too.’ “
That, Novak said, was “a confirmation” for what he was about to do – out a covert CIA operative.
Was it a confirmation?
ROVE: “No. And, I, I remember it slightly differently. I remember saying, ‘I’ve heard that, too.’ ”
As Gregory pursued the point, Rove then ducked behind the “ongoing legal matter” shield.
Did he owe Ms. Plame an apology? “No.”
Drum roll. Later in the program, enter Conde Nast Portfolio’s Matt Cooper, formerly of Time magazine.
COOPER, commenting on Rove’s earlier appearance: “Yeah, I think he was dissembling, to put it charitably. Look, Karl Rove told me about Valerie Plame’s identity on July 11, 2003. I called him because Ambassador Wilson was in the news that week. I didn’t know Ambassador Wilson even had a wife until I talked to Karl Rove, and he said that she worked at the agency, and she worked on WMD. I mean, to imply that he didn’t know about it, or that this was all the leak ...“
GREGORY: “Or, that he had heard it from somebody else ...”
COOPER: “... by someone else, or he heard it as some rumor out in the hallway is, is nonsense.”
GREGORY: “But, he makes no apologies to Valerie Plame.”
COOPER: “Karl Rove never apologizes. That’s not what he does.”
TRANSCRIPT, Meet the Press, NBC, 19 August 2007
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George W.Bush, with his hand in the air, promised to "restore honor" to the White House. He gave us, in his own words, "Turd Blossom."
Texans! How much better off we'd be had we lost that War to Mexico.
I think, in my mind, the whole of the current presidency and his entourage harkens back to the phrase "shine on" and own agenda. I really do think it's been a team assembled long before it was in power and millions and millions of dollars have changed hands. Whole lines of income have been set up. These people don't care what we think--and they do not have to care. That wasn't the program. Eowyn the right wing, I guess.
Eowyn:
The American eagle needs both wings to fly.
I'm glad you commented.
BJ AKA "Merry"
Actually, I have commented other times but it doesn't show up because I haven't figured out this blog thing yet. I am only making this comment to say that it is a really interesting world and procedure. I have figured out by looking at Frodo's responses that I must respond as anonymous but say in the text who I am. Otherwise, it vanishes. Thank you for being part of the world of words. It has always been my world. How strange to know people so far away you will never see them.
Actually, leaving a comment is pretty easy.
Click on "comments" under the post. Then, click "yes" on the security screen that comes up.
Type comment.
Then, you can choose:
If you have a blogger user name and password, your user name will appear, or
you can click on "other" and type in a name, or
you can choose "anonymous."
After you hit "publish," you have to click "yes" on the security screen again.
Your comment should then show up on the left of screen.
That's it, distant friend.
BJ
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