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...Karl Rove technically broke a law when he leaked the identity of cia operative Valerie Plame [wife of Administration critic Joseph Wilson] is beside the point [July 25]. Despite repeated denials by the White House, Rove talked about Plame to Time's Matthew Cooper as well as to Robert Novak, the reporter who blew her cover. So the President's deputy chief of staff was involved in revealing the identity of a covert cia officer because her husband disputed George W. Bush's claim that Iraq attempted to buy uranium from Niger. The President's right-hand...
Viewers expect pundits to dispense b.s. on cable-news debate shows. But it's considered poor form to use the actual word. Hence the big hoo-ha last week over conservative columnist Robert Novak's performance on CNN's Inside Politics. After Democratic commentator James Carville teased him for trying to show fellow right-wingers that "he's got backbone," Novak shot back, "Well, I think that's bulls___." He then pulled off his mike and stormed...
...Novak has been a fixture on debate shows for years without displaying such tender sensitivities. But the man has been under pressure lately. After all, it was his 2003 column outing CIA operative Valerie Plame--whose husband Joseph Wilson had publicly criticized the Bush Administration's use of prewar intelligence--that kicked off an investigation into whether officials broke the law by leaking her identity to reporters. Novak has stayed mum as to whether he is cooperating in a case that has sent one reporter to jail for not coughing up her sources. (After the Supreme Court refused to hear...
Inside Politics host Ed Henry, who said he had planned to ask Novak about Plame later in the show, won't get to any time soon; CNN quickly asked Novak to "take some time off." It may want to reconsider, though. People drop the b.s. word on HBO all the time, and the ratings are huge. --By James Poniewozik
Lost in the cacophony of media attention surrounding Rove's possible misdeeds is one basic fact: in the buildup to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, this Administration misled the American people regarding Iraq's development of nuclear weapons. That important fact is now virtually forgotten. Meanspirited Novak, a shill for the political right, publicly outed Wilson's wife Plame. That was the Administration's first parry to deflect public attention. And with the continuing diversion of the American people's attention from the central issue of deception, the Administration is having things just the way it wants...