Quick how many times was Judith Miller's name mentioned on Lou Dobbs today?

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http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0510/17/ldt.01.html

LOU DOBBS TONIGHT

White House Launches Strategy to Push Miers; Bush Administration Braces for Charges in CIA Leak Case

Aired October 17, 2005 - 18:00 ET

<snip>SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT (voice over): Just days away from the federal grand jury deadline. Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald will decide whether he'll seek criminal charges against anyone for leaking the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame. Legal sources say Fitzgerald is also considering lesser charges like perjury or obstructions of justice.

Most of Fitzgerald's attention seems to be focused on Karl Rove, President Bush's top political adviser who testified for the fourth time on Friday, and Scooter Libby, the vice president's chief of staff, who's testified numerous times before as well.

Rove denies leaking but has admitted to talking with reporters about the fact that former ambassador Joe Wilson's wife worked at the CIA. According to "TIME" magazine, Rove already has a contingency plan if he's indicted to resign or to go on unpaid leave, a scenario the president refused to talk about.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Mr. President, would you expect a member of your administration to resign or take leave if they were indicted?

GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: We're not going to -- I'm not going to prejudge the outcome of the investigation.

<snip> (A few more paragraphs but no mention of Judith)


Poor Lou's producers must have went through some real gyrations to write a report on the Plame story at all without ever naming the only person who has spent time in the jug over it so far even once. And I thought Judith was Lou's big friend?

He was the only one that I know of to have her on their show since her release from stir. I don't think Fox news even had her on? You would think Lou would have gave some mention of his old friend who he kept saying Fitzgerald had been unfairly persecuting?

He is acting like she fell off the edge of the earth or something? Like she don't even exist. What kind of a fair weather friend is that? I don't think Lou even mentioned how looooong Fitzgerald's investigation has lasted today as he has been doing for months previous either?

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1. You mean he's not simpering about

poor little judy miller? Does he have egg on his face?

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2. Dobbs was smack talking Fitzgerald only a week ago--

"I will never forgive him for what he's put you through Judy" or some such nonsense as that.

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3. I think he knows he was suckered big time

and I actually like Lou. Maybe because he's a local from here in Seattle and I am a sentimentalist. But that could get me into wrong-thinking just as he did with Judith Miller.

Judith Miller, embedded with the Bush administration: why should she be protected? Why would the NYTimes put its reputation and millions of dollars at stake to protect someone who is protecting political appointees who are trying to discredit actual whistle-blowers?

I know that the Times has acknowledged that this was not a perfect case for protecting the principle concerning sources, but, they did not present a reasonable justification for not pursuing or printing the articles about the case.

I am very disappointed, and if they sever relations w/ Judith Miller, it will be to little too late..

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4. Lou Dobb is a power hungry white male Libertarian.

Just last night a DUer was applauding him for a diatribe Dobbs made where he stated that there is really no such thing as Truth in the news. DUers thought he was taking on FoxNews, but what he really was trying to do was justify the whoredom nature of the press, including his own.

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5. Ever think of this?

Maybe he is trying to garner national sympathy for Judy so that when the REAL TRUTH breaks, people may just feel sorry for the reporter who had to hide in jail from the government?

And, maybe he knows much more than has surfaced - don't be too quick to judge this matter.