Joe Conason: "Rove on the Ropes"

Rove on the Ropes

Sure, let’s gloat: The president’s guru has been flirting with this kind of scandal for years. It’s time the bill came due.

By Joe Conason

Issue Date: 08.01.05

From the very beginning, the white house propaganda assault against former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV and his wife, Valerie Plame Wilson, a longtime officer in the CIA, looked like the work of Karl Rove. The malicious leaks against the Wilsons -- which have led to the appointment of a special prosecutor and the imprisonment of a New York Times reporter -- displayed the style Rove has developed ever since his youthful apprenticeship with the Nixon gang: false information, whispered and broadcast, designed to damage reputations of “enemies” and to divert attention from substance, to further partisan advantage and to exact personal vengeance.



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The cult of Bushevism is fighting for its life. The pressure of Fitzgerald to let Rove off the hook must be enormous. And Janice Brown and the rest of Bush's Washington, D.C, Federal Circuit Court of Appeals hack judges are just waiting for a wink and a nod to overturn any Bush Administration convictions if there are indictments and findings of guilt.

So the obstacles to holding Rove and other White House officials accountable for their treason are formidable, even though their guilt is hidden in plain sight.

Everyone knows that the Rove "counterattack" (even though the White House lies again when it claims it can't talk about the case but unleashes Rove to furiously impugn Joe Wilson and throw up enough flak to keep the press befuddled) is about three things: 1) Saving Bush's Brain, Karl Rove, from the slammer, which would leave Bush with a frontal lobotomy; 2) Keeping the dam of Bushevik lies that led us into the Iraq war from bursting forth and finally being understood as a treason and betrayal unto itself; and 3) protecting the one-party power base of the Bush dynasty, the rabid Republicans, and the Fundamentalist Christian Jihadists.

Just remember these two words: Rove and treason. Repeat the truth five times and people might finally understand it's the truth.

From GOP Goes for Broke in Defending Treason: The Withering Republican Assault on Truth, Justice and the Rule of Law

A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL

July 18, 2005

Link:
http://www.buzzflash.com/editorial/05/07/edi05058.html