"Reporters were so frustrated that some of them even heckled Scott [McClellan] at the end of one press conference, shouting 'Karl Rove! Karl Rove! Karl Rove!' and 'Will Karl be on the space shuttle tomorrow?' as Scotty ran from the podium with his tail between his legs."- from DU's Top 10 Conservative Idiots.
'Restoring "honor and integrity" to a post-blowjob White House is hard work. Especially when more Americans than not think you're worse than the last guy.'- headline at Fark.
"I've already said too much"
Karl Rove was the first person to tell a Time magazine reporter that the wife of a prominent critic of the Bush administration's Iraq policy was a CIA agent, the reporter said in an article on Sunday.
Partisan political smear
Rove and Cheney chief of staff were intent on discrediting CIA agent's husband, prosecutors have been told.
Top aides to President Integritude and vp Dick 'dick' Cheney were intensely focused on discrediting former Ambassador Joseph Wilson in the days after he wrote an op-ed article for the New York Times suggesting the administration manipulated intelligence to justify going to war in Iraq, federal investigators have been told.
Prosecutors investigating whether administration officials illegally leaked the identity of Wilson's wife have been told that Bush's top political strategist, Karl Rove, and Cheney's top aide, chief of staff Lewis "Scooter" Libby, were especially intent on undercutting Wilson's credibility, according to people familiar with the inquiry.
Although lower-level White House staffers typically handle most contacts with the media, Rove and Libby began personally communicating with reporters about Wilson, prosecutors were told.
A source directly familiar with information provided to prosecutors said Rove's interest was so strong that it prompted questions in the White House. When asked at one point why he was pursuing the diplomat so aggressively, Rove reportedly responded: "He's a Democrat."
Prosecutors investigating whether administration officials illegally leaked the identity of Wilson's wife have been told that Bush's top political strategist, Karl Rove, and Cheney's top aide, chief of staff Lewis "Scooter" Libby, were especially intent on undercutting Wilson's credibility, according to people familiar with the inquiry.
Although lower-level White House staffers typically handle most contacts with the media, Rove and Libby began personally communicating with reporters about Wilson, prosecutors were told.
A source directly familiar with information provided to prosecutors said Rove's interest was so strong that it prompted questions in the White House. When asked at one point why he was pursuing the diplomat so aggressively, Rove reportedly responded: "He's a Democrat."
Changing the tone.
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