Do They Know It’s Fitzmas Time At All?
All quiet on the Rovian front, much to the chagrin of the left. Jason Leopold has proven once again why he can’t be trusted – he’s either a liar or a dupe. Rove could still be indicted, but it won’t be today, that’s clear. My personal Rove indictment line has now swung back to marginally on the side of ‘not’ – I now put it at 17-13 against Rove’s indictment (don’t ask how I came up with that incredibly informed estimate, as it is beyond your comprehension).
Steve Clemons has a followup to yesterday’s report that Dick Armitrage is a target of Fitz; not so, he says he is reliably informed (though just yesterday he was reliably informed of the opposite). Blaahhh – we’ll know it when we know it…
If Rove isn’t indicted today, the blogosphere loses a lot of credibility. This Jason Leopold story will be pointed to by the mainstream media for why not to believe what you read on the blogs.
Well, true to an extent – it shouldn’t be used as an indictment of the blogosphere as a whole, though, that one guy is consistently wrong.
The difference in Leopold and most bloggers is that he ostensibly ‘reports’, whereas most of us ‘speculate’. If you’re going to say something as big as a Rove indictment will categorically happen, you better have your story nailed – and Leopold obviously did not…
Just the other day someone mentioned the possibilty of the Canary Trap being behind the NSA/phone records story: tell a suspected leaker something and see if it pops up in the press. Given the curious claims about Rove and now Armitage, I wonder if Fitzgerald is playing this game himself.
Maybe not – fevered speculation, wishful thinking and the freedom to spread the wildest rumors through the Internet may be enough to gin these stories up. But it makes me wonder.
Dennis, I think you are right on that and Angleton (he of “Wilderness of Mirrors”) would second your premise undoubtably. The NSA phone record program seems like another possible, possibly quite intentional muddying of the waters. Look at it from the admin’s side; if these are falsifying leaks (and if so, certainly the actual leakers are in the dark) it is a brilliant… may we say Rovian?… bit of political ju jitsu using the opponents percieved strengths against them. The big loser of course is the disseminating body for it is they who will be held accountable as their trumpeted revelations come acropper. The big winners are those the leaks, now discredited intoto, were harrassing. It’s not pretty, no sirree, but the art of leakage was really perfected by the Clintons much to their benefit, not the country’s. If dissinformatzi is the necessary weapon against dissinformatzi, so be it and a toast to Karl, the new master of this blackest of black arts.
Of course, there may be no “Karl”…