Arthur Silber - July 13, 2005

TERRORISM: BUSH’S BEST FRIEND

July 13th, 2005

A post under that title by yours truly over at Crooks and Liars.

As I mention in the P.S., here’s a related post: The Destroyed Capacity for Thought.

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KARL ROVE ENDANGERED AMERICA

July 13th, 2005

Echoing the major theme of my posts on Rove (here, here, here, here, and here), Evan Derkacz writes:

Okay, keep your eye on the ball: Karl Rove endangered America.

But, you’ve been keeping up, reading, watching TV, and you’ve undoubtedly heard (or will hear) that Karl Rove didn’t say the words “Valerie Plame,” or he didn’t mean to blow her cover—or was her cover too threadbare to even matter?—or Joe Wilson’s claims weren’t true, or else he was trying to save a reporter from printing a false story, or….

...Hey, look over there: MoveOn.org is unpatriotic!

I WANT WHAT THEY’RE SMOKING, OR WHY I LOVE KARL ROVE

July 13th, 2005

So many lies in so little space:

Democrats and most of the Beltway press corps are baying for Karl Rove’s head over his role in exposing a case of CIA nepotism involving Joe Wilson and his wife, Valerie Plame. On the contrary, we’d say the White House political guru deserves a prize—perhaps the next iteration of the “Truth-Telling” award that The Nation magazine bestowed upon Mr. Wilson before the Senate Intelligence Committee exposed him as a fraud.