One more down

Posted on October 28, 2005 by Gene

How nice that the media is taking notice of the corruption of the Bush administration at last — they’re not a liberal media as the conservatives would have you believe; but they are simply quick to pounce on any event or person that has some element of crime or pain.
Anyway. I’m not gonna talk the whole Plamegate thing to death, partly because it’s been made so complicated that I can’t quite figure out what’s going on; secondly because everyone else is covering it.
I do want to point out one thing that seems obvious to me: if it was Cheney who told LIbby about Plame, then isn’t it obvious that Cheney — the architect of the whole Iraq boondoggle — gave Libby his marching orders?
Now here’s one significant omission: no indictments on the actual leak itself, the naming of a covert operative. What’s up with that?
Meanwhile, this “Situation Room” format on CNN is rather annoying. We already have too much stuff scrolling, blinking, and rotating on the screen. Now we have a dozen screens in the background as well, and it’s all too much. Plus, while Wolf Blitzer is blathering, you can clearly see a news conference going on at the Justice department on one of the screens — but they don’t go to it, they just keep letting blowhards talk about it, including one guy who keeps hammering home “innocent until proven guilty” and that perjury is not that bad. Thankfully, the guy next to him pointed out that it would have been nice to hear the same platitudes from him back during the Clinton scandal.