Weisberg on Plamegate: "Hold the schadenfreude, blue-staters"

[BurtWorm]

Hold the schadenfreude, blue-staters. Rooting for Rove's indictment in this case isn't just unseemly, it's unthinking and ultimately self-destructive. Anyone who cares about civil liberties, freedom of information, or even just fair play should have been skeptical about Fitzgerald's investigation from the start. Claiming a few conservative scalps might be satisfying, but they'll come at a cost to principles liberals hold dear: the press's right to find out, the government's ability to disclose, and the public's right to know.

http://slate.msn.com/id/2128301/



I'd like to ask Weisberg how any of these principles applies in a case in which members of the upper reaches of government used a "rogue" reporter to spread disinformation about a critic of the administration's cynical misuse of "intelligence" to kill debate on a badly planned war it was determined to have no matter what. Whose civil liberties does Weisberg care about? What are the words "fair" and "play" doing paired in a piece having anything to do with this administration's rape of justice?

[texpatriot2004]

1. Judy's no journalist.n.t

[Pithy Cherub]

4. neither is Weisberg. Bush press apologists unite!

:puke:

[montanacowboy]

2. What a crock

he can stuff it

[Arkana]

3. WTF is he talking about?

This is about selling out a CIA agent as revenge. WHERE THE FUCK DOES THIS COME FROM?

[HootieMcBoob]

5. BULLSHIT! n/t

:freak:

[berni_mccoy]

6. B.S. She was NOT PROTECTING A SOURCE

She was protecting a CRIMINAL.

It's EXACTLY the same as if she had witnessed a MURDERER COMMITTING MURDER. She would be COMPELLED TO TESTIFY. PERIOD.

[blm]

7. Weisberg has certainly proven to be a mixed bag.

Although obviously talented, sometimes he's just unbelievable.

Please don't be another Operation Mockingbird, Mr. Weisberg.

[AlCzervik]

8. if Miller really went to jail to protect the 1st. ammendment, she'd still

there. She sullied the 1st amendment by pretending thats what she was going to jail over.

[Justitia]

9. HAHAHA - They get caught, and WE'RE "unseemly" - HAHAHA

I smell fear.

[Cha]

16. I caught that, too!

weisberg is "unseemly" for suggesting that we hold the friggin schadenfreude!

[longship]

10. Hey, Mr. Weisberg...

Cheering and taking joy when criminals meet their comeuppance is *not* schadenfreude. So get it right, you stupid shit.

[Me.]

11. Blah, Blah, Blah

For years they've been playing dirty and now that they've been caught they want to talk civil rights!

[Bob3]

12. Weisberg has been inside the beltway too long and has

had too many nice lunches at nice restaurants. Do that and you get this kind of gibberish flowing out from your typewriter.

You know in the old days newspapers would take reporters off of covering a baseball team after a couple three years - the idea being that after a while the reporter would come to consider himself part of the team and he would start seeing things their way rather than reporting on what happened. What we have in washington is an entire group of reporters who have been seeing things the government's way for years. Time to shake things up I think. People need to leave the DC and beat and earn their living as reporters again (that is if they ever did)

[incapsulated]

13. Kiss my blue ass, Weisberg n/t

[Zynx]

14. What. A. Load. Of. Bullcrap.

So I suppose it's okay for the press to engage in the disclosure of all covert activities? I guess in WWII we should have told the press that we were landing at Normandy instead of Calais so Hitler could have known?

[NV Whino]

15. Me, I want Rove's head on a platter...

along with a few others. Weisberg's spin don't spin.

[meow mix]

17. "public's right to know?" aw isnt that sweet he wants to protect us

if we pursue the truth we are losing our "right to know"
bwahaha ok guy
so its ok to know as long as we only know the lies they told us in the first place.
(with the fabricated documents.. of course)

[fooj]

18. It's called treason. What an asshole.

Peace.

[glitch]

19. git. nt