Thursday, November 17, 2005
Woodward
Just in case there was any doubt he's been a GOP water carrier for the last 20-plus years; from Editor & Publisher:
"He has called Patrick J. Fitzgerald a 'junkyard dog prosecutor' and said in interviews this year that the damage done by Plame's name being revealed in the media was 'quite minimal.' He told NPR this past summer, 'When I think all of the facts come out in this case, it's going to be laughable because the consequences are not that great.'" (http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001480714)
Exactly wrong. Fitzgerald has gotten it just about exactly right -- as far as he's gone.
But as a journalist, being a GOP hack whore is more important than, well, journalism.
From later in the article, Woodward quoted from a Larry King Live appearance 10/27/05:
"Now there are a couple of things that I think are true. First of all this began not as somebody launching a smear campaign that it actually -- when the story comes out I'm quite confident we're going to find out that it started kind of as gossip, as chatter and that somebody learned that Joe Wilson's wife had worked at the CIA and helped him get this job going to Niger to see if there was an Iraq/Niger uranium deal...."
Journalism or RNC talking point? (Rhetorical question.)
"He has called Patrick J. Fitzgerald a 'junkyard dog prosecutor' and said in interviews this year that the damage done by Plame's name being revealed in the media was 'quite minimal.' He told NPR this past summer, 'When I think all of the facts come out in this case, it's going to be laughable because the consequences are not that great.'" (http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001480714)
Exactly wrong. Fitzgerald has gotten it just about exactly right -- as far as he's gone.
But as a journalist, being a GOP hack whore is more important than, well, journalism.
From later in the article, Woodward quoted from a Larry King Live appearance 10/27/05:
"Now there are a couple of things that I think are true. First of all this began not as somebody launching a smear campaign that it actually -- when the story comes out I'm quite confident we're going to find out that it started kind of as gossip, as chatter and that somebody learned that Joe Wilson's wife had worked at the CIA and helped him get this job going to Niger to see if there was an Iraq/Niger uranium deal...."
Journalism or RNC talking point? (Rhetorical question.)
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