Fineman: The physics of unaccountable power (Media and Rove)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8562223/

The White House press room is a dump of a place, with rickety lecture hall seats, photographers’ ladders piled high in the corners, frayed carpeting and a floor that feels hollow, which it is, since the old presidential swimming pool is under it somewhere. In recent days the room also seems like a battleground — the way it used to be in the old Clinton days.

The ferocity with which the presidential press corps went after the Karl Rove story is startling, but it shouldn’t be surprising.

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Third thoughts on pre-Iraq reporting
Take my word, there has been a lot of soul searching in the so-called Main Stream Media (MSM) over its performance, or lack of performance, in the months leading up to the American-led ouster of Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq. Specifically, did we replace what should have been professional skepticism with a certain mindless credulousness in assessing the reality of the Bush administration’s claims of imminent danger to the country and the world from Saddam’s supposedly vast stash of weapons of mass destruction, including — only months away, it was said — the nuclear kind?

If we failed, was it out of a misplaced sense of patriotic duty, or political cowardice or sheer incompetence — or all three? The press corps was spring-loaded with self-doubt over the WMD issue, and ready to snap over any story that would allow it to revisit what now looks to have been a massive — and embarrassingly successful, from the press’ point of view — propaganda campaign.

So Rove was a spinner on the WMD front? After him!

He owes us all a huge apology and he ought to retire himself so he can't do any more damage.

Like Murdoch, Jack Welch, and Sumner Redstone.

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Does this loser actually think there's a doubt?

Hey, Fineman, the blood is on your hands -- no sense trying to wash it off it now.