The Daily Howler - 11/22/05

ALL TOO HUMAN! Gigot cherry-picked a Fitzgerald quote. Ditto Biden with Cheney: // link // print // previous // next //

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2005

ALL TOO HUMAN: Did the Bush Admin cherry-pick intel? You can bet your sweet bippy they did—and they did a lot more. But then, the human mind is deeply inclined to cherry-pick—to produce those facts which support one’s own case, and not a single fact more. On Sunday, for example, Paul Gigot cherry-picked a quote from Patrick Fitzgerald while guesting on Fox News Sunday: CHRIS WALLACE (11/20/05): Paul, what does this [the Bob Woodward matter] mean for the investigation in general, and what does it mean for the indictment in particular of Scooter Libby, the vice president's former chief of staff?

GIGOT: Well, I think it potentially helps Scooter Libby. I mean, here's a quote from Fitzgerald he made at his press conference about the Libby indictment. He said Libby was “at the beginning of the chain of phone calls, the first official to disclose this information outside the government to a reporter.”