Actually we have not gotten a “never mind” out of the mainstream media yet in the case of Valerie Plame. The mainstream media will probably never tell the true story behind Joe’s grand frog marching fantasy. It is an incredible story really -- amazing that so many in the media regurgitated Wilson’s conspiracy theories as if they were fact. It is amazing that the story took off at all in spite of contradictory statements from Bob Novak from the beginning, who claimed that Plame’s identity did not come from a partisan gunslinger and was only offered in response to his question about why Wilson might have been chosen for the Niger trip. Amazing that it continued in spite of revelations that those 16 words were not incorrect after all. Amazing that even after Joe Wilson’s statements were found to be inconsistent with documentation uncovered by a Senate committee, that the story remained the same.
The Wilson fantasy was reported for years, as fact, in countless set up pieces to fawning interviews with Wilson. That reporting had very real consequences. It was Joe Wilson's claim that Bush lied about the “16 words” that started the "Bush lied" mantra. We now know that many of the claims that "Bush lied" were actually lies themselves, but that has gotten scant little attention.
Democrats have a page in their playbook that they use often and it works almost every time. Make an assertion, even when it is contradicted by facts (in this case by Novak's statement from day one) and then repeat it over and over again until it becomes conventional wisdom. When the facts emerge and it is clear that most, if not the entire thing, was a liberal fantasy, the damage will have been done and since the media was so instrumental in spreading the misinformation, they will call very little attention to the correction.
which makes me want to drag out this little chestnut right about now from an eariler post .
Ode to Karl Rove
by the Mother of all Blog Pimps
There will be no frog march for Karl rove. No jubilant summer, no victory in the fall. No Goregasam on Hard Ball no Right wing Cabal. No sentence or note of resignation. No Panic in the streets. No report to Congress, no Speech on the step of the Supremes.
This is the cold hard truth and you don’t need Diebold to tell you the score. It’s done, get used to it, it’s gone get over it, Get happy, he ain’t going nowhere. Don’t be a hater you couldn’t win from the start. We will speak no truth to power no words work anymore.
There wasn’t any evidence you see of a crime so no indictment no time. No orange jumpsuit custom made for his once large frame and good luck on trying to ruin his name. It’s no crime some have come to find to state the facts from time to time or better yet just except your defeat and move along don’t try to make it a moral victory that cause is gone.
You got your investigation and “Scooter Libby’s resignation so be glad with that and I hope your friends the reporters don’t have to supply you as one of the sources of the name that shall live in infamy and be remembered in Encyclopedias maybe as the wife of Joe Wilson that king of all media. That sprung from the bosom of Africa and on the covers of Vanity Fair as the critic, the ace in the hole, the number one provocateur.
With an election time book, an October surprise, that is sure to please the masses in the beltway, and men who think themselves wise.
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