September 1, 2006

Well, besides the normally expected and usual liberal vs. conservative ratio of 3 to 1 in this week's News Roundup made up of:

guest host Laura Knoy of New Hampshire Public Radio, Katty Kay, Washington correspondent, BBC, Doyle McManus, Washington bureau chief, Los Angeles Times and Andrea Mitchell, of NBC (it was hard to detect who was the conservative voice), you heard a lot about Iraq and Iran, the usual gloom and doom, followed in the next hour by "Blood Money" by T. Christian Miller, investigative reporter for the "Los Angeles Times" on more gloom and doom about Iraq. But you didn't hear anything (until the very last minute of the show and only because a caller sent an email):

• about the colapse of the Valerie Plame "outing"/CIA/"White House" scandal.

Remember that case? Yes, the one that was dragged, and frankly fabricated by the media to prove that "Bush lied and people died" and was discussed ad nauseum in this show.

The liberal media used the scandal as proof that the Bush administration acted in revenge against Joe Wilson for having gone against the grain of the President's case against Iraq. But more than anything the non-scandal was used to reinforce the argument that Bush lied about the reasons for going to Iraq.

But David Corn, the Ann Coulter of the liberal side, and a frequent member of the News Roundup, in his book amusingly titled Hubris, admits now that it was not Karl Rove, nor Scooter Lybby, nor VP Cheney who told Bob Novak about Wilson's wife identity as a CIA "operative" but Richard Armitage, an opponent of the White House in the State Department.

As we all now know, not only there was a small and disloyal cabal in State headed by Powell and in CIA which opposed the President, but that Joe Wilson and wife were sympathetic to John Kerry and ended up working in his campaign. Clinton appointed CIA Director George "is a slam dunk, Mr. President" Tenet headed the CIA cabal.

This non-scandal is very important because it was driven by the media to discredit the President during a time of war only for partisan purposes, credibility now needed as we face Iran.

Amazing! The last minute of the show dedicated to the media created "scandal" that was dragged on this show for two years? Don't expect this weekend, or for weeks to come, coverage of this, yet another egg in the face of the liberal media's own latest scandal. Yes, as Doyle McManus said, the revelation that there was no plot coming from the White House has made "no splash" on the media. The question is: why? The answer: it's obvious!

(Anyway, is Labor Day Weekend and am off to enjoy the last weekend of summer. For more information read: http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110008872 , http://www.slate.com/id/2148555/ , and http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/31/AR2006083101460.html)