E&P's Greg Mitchell: "As Aspens Turn: Scooter Hearts Judy, and No Wonder"

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E&P's Greg Mitchell: "As Aspens Turn: Scooter Hearts Judy, and No Wonder"

http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/columns/pressingissues_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001261586

As Aspens Turn: Scooter Hearts Judy, and No Wonder
By Greg Mitchell

(October 06, 2005) -- After its starring role Wednesday night on "The Daily Show," the Sept. 15 letter "aspens are already turning" letter from "Scooter" Libby to "Judy" Miller has now reached a new level of infamy. Next stop: "SNL," a book of Libby poems, then the movie, starring Harrison Ford and Annette Bening.

On his show last night, Jon Stewart graded Libby�s prose a �D,� on merit, and suggested that he might flunk Miller, on general principles. David Ignatius of The Washington Post probed the letter�s journalistic meaning, a New York Observer headline referred to it as a �love letter,� while others suggested Libby could be indicted for coaching the witness, even if he didn�t out Valerie Plame.

I�m proud to say that I was the first to print the full text of the letter, at E&P Online, early last Saturday. It had appeared until then only in PDF form on The New York Times site. Within hours, the blogs were linking, and posters were finding codes and conspiracies in Scooter�s suggestion that the aspens that Judy supposedly knows and loves out West would be �turning� together this fall because they are, after all, �connected at the roots.�

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Fridays Child

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Thu Oct-06-05 01:20 AM
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1. Notice Mitchell's error in the final paragraph? Liddy instead of Libby.

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Dudley_DUright

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Thu Oct-06-05 06:24 AM
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7. Stewart was also giving him a D- (not a D) for his prose

Edited on Thu Oct-06-05 06:35 AM by Dudley_DUright

I am a college professor, and so I am careful to give correct grades for these things. :evilgrin:

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longship

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Thu Oct-06-05 01:21 AM
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2. Damn right bizarre letter.

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opihimoimoi

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Thu Oct-06-05 01:33 AM
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3. Many believe it was code that some are TALKING TO THE FEDS and ROVE GONNA

BURN

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Fridays Child

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Thu Oct-06-05 01:41 AM
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4. If B*sh had to say that he didn't know Karl as well as he thought...

...I wonder what that would do to his nomination of Harriet Miers.

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opihimoimoi

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Thu Oct-06-05 01:53 AM
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5. LOL, that made me chuckle....:smile:

Miers going down...too close to W...not good for the Nation...

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longship

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Thu Oct-06-05 02:09 AM
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6. I agree. Miers is not going to be a SCOTUS justice. Not ever.

Thanks for playing, Chimpy.

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