What's Your Favorite RW Talking Point to Minimize Treasongate?

[Stevendsmith]

Mine's from Tucker Carlson:

This is just a “coastal issue.” Middle America neither understands nor cares about the CIA leak investigation.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. background noise

not important to the running of the country (into the ground imho).

[Tennessee Gal]

2. Tucker is a twit.....

"Criminalization of politics" is a biggie for them. Too bad they elected the biggest two criminals of all and endorsed the appointment of many others.

[Democrat 4 Ever]

5. World O'Crap took apart a WSJ editorial of all the repug talking points

This blog tears the Wall Street Journal's editorial board a new a$$hole over their latest attempt to defend Chimpy & Co. The writer takes apart the editorial line by line with devastating results. Really good read.

I Hate, Hate, Hate this Editorial

Okay, we've been informed that "allies of the White House have quietly been circulating talking points in recent days among Republicans sympathetic to the administration, seeking to help them make the case that bringing charges like perjury mean the prosecutor does not have a strong case" and that "indicting would amount to criminalizing politics and that Mr. Fitzgerald did not understand how Washington works."

And making full use of those talking points is the Wall Street Journal, whose unsigned (although we suspect it was penned by Taranto) editorial can be summed up as, "Would it be criminal to leak the name of a CIA officer during in war time? Hell, it would be criminal not to!"

While this editorial makes full use of Karl Rove's "Rovegate Talking Points for Dummies," it's noteworthy for it's liberal (in the lowercase sense) use of lies, dubious claims, and unfair implications. So, just for fun I thought we'd go through it, chunk by chunk, and identify some of these "rhetorical devices." (I numbered the chunks for convenience sake only.)

1. Rampant leaks notwithstanding, no one but Patrick Fitzgerald knows all of the criminal evidence the special prosecutor is considering against senior White House officials. Our hope is that he also understands that the job of a prosecutor is not to settle what at bottom is a political and policy fight over the war in Iraq.

Lie by implication: There's not even the possibility that a crime was committed -- it's clear that all that occurred was some spirited political debating (on the part of both sides).

(snip)

Read the rest at: http://blogs.salon.com/0002874/2005/10/24.html#a1941

[Norquist Nemesis]

6. Tucker's out of touch with the mainstream

but then so are most of the Cons that think Corporate Entitlement is hunky dorey.

[JAbuchan08]

3. The "coastal issue" thing paints Tucker as what he is

the true elitist.

[the_spectator]

4. At least no-one got a blow job...

Which probably isn't true, we just don't know about it yet: where there's Judy Miller, there's blow jobs!

[Catrina]

7. *rotfl* ~ and it seems, Libby the poet!

'There's no underlying crime' therefore 'let's hope we don't see indictments for technicalities, like perjury'

[schmuls]

8. To Tucker Carlson: You wish!

As a member of "middle america", I know a hell of a lot more than you think I do. I like his comment though...the more arrogant they are, the harder they'll fall when the shit hits the fan!