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Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
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The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Back on Wednesday, I had written about the whole Karl Rove, Joe Wilson, Valerie Plame, Outing a Covert Agent, Treason blah blah blah scandal. Call it what you will. Interested readers — there are some, sometimes — had been nagging at me to work on getting more substance out while using fewer words to carry it. For quite some time now. Since the third or fourth grade maybe (I’m 39 today).
It is a complex thing, to try to say this: We do not know for a fact that Karl Rove is innocent of what he’s been accused of, but we should be nearly certain of it, because there are people who have access to privileged information we do not have. Those people probably know without a doubt whether or not Rove is guilty of a crime. If he were guilty, they would know, and they would not be behaving the way they are behaving. I believed that then, and I believe it now, but the point was simply a bunny-trail, a side-point, from what I was really writing about. The way I had chosen to impart this, was the following:
But other things are gathering dust while they’re [the press] trying to figure out if a crime has been committed — knowing that there are people who know if a crime has been committed or not, and that those people would be behaving differently if a crime had, indeed, been commited.
I don’t know if James Taranto, the esteemed editor of “Best of the Web,” the daily Wall Street Journal column, reads my blog. I would expect hardly anybody does. But how then do you explain this gem which appeared in his column this morning.
Let’s conduct a little thought experiment, shall we? Suppose that people in Washington generally had the sense that Karl Rove was soon to be indicted in the Valerie Plame kerfuffle. How would they react?
It seems to us the White House would be working to distance itself from Rove, possibly planning for him to make a quiet exit, much as John Kerry’s campaign “disappeared” Joe Wilson last summer when Wilson’s credibility fell apart. The Democrats, on the other hand, would act high-minded and talk of “letting the process work,” at least as long as Rove remained on the job. An actual indictment, after all, would do maximal political damage to the Bush administration.
Instead, the White House (which knows a lot more about the investigation than any of us) is confidently standing behind Rove, while the Democrats are waging a hysterical attack that would be premature if it were based on anything real. Partisan Democrats don’t want to talk about the facts of the case (facts are irrelevant, as a former Enron adviser insists) or about the law. They just want to pound the table and insist that Rove is metaphysically guilty.
I’ve been robbed, but I’m not calling the police. I’m quite flattered. What had been just a sideways remark in my Wednesday ramblings, has morphed into a central thesis within his Friday column.
But there are other people who know more than the average bear, who are doing things they probably wouldn’t be doing if Rove was guilty of a crime. Philip Heymann, Clinton’s deputy attorney general, probably wouldn’t be granting an interview to Knight-Ridder to say this: “He has to find somebody who would say Rove knew that she was covert, that he knew that the government was making an effort to hide her identity…without [that], you don’t have a crime.”
This is old news to anyone who has the balls to check out a “right-wing nut” web site or radio show once in awhile. If you thrive on ABC/CBS/NBC/CNN/PBS alphabet soup, it probably comes as a real shocker.
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