I hate the inconsistencies on the Rove story ...

[FormerRepublican]

First we have the quote by Chris Matthews who says he was called by Rove and told that Valerie Plame was 'fair game.'

""It is very clear that Karl Rove has been part of this, as evidenced by his phone call to Chris Matthews in which he asserted that my wife was fair game."

http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/07/10/wcia10.xml

And then we're supposed to believe that Rove chatted nice things about Valerie with Cooper out of the goodness of his heart:

"Instead, Luskin said, Rove discussed the matter — under the cloak of secrecy — with Cooper at the tail end of a conversation about a different issue. Cooper had called Rove to discuss other matters on a Friday before deadline, and the topic of Wilson came up briefly. Luskin said Cooper raised the question.

"Rove did not mention her name to Cooper," Luskin said. "This was not an effort to encourage Time to disclose her identity. What he was doing was discouraging Time from perpetuating some statements that had been made publicly and weren't true.""

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8504290/

Somehow I doubt that Rove would suddenly change the story he was pushing at reporters - unless threatened with jail by the Grand Jury! (And then he'd do a little cover up to send reporters to jail and get off the hook himself.)

The way the press is reporting this burns me up!

[mirandapriestly]

1. I know what you mean

Totally different points of views from different sources. I suppose the goal is to confuse.

[eleny]

2. "discouraging Time from perpetuating some statements"

That's inconsistent with saying Plame was "fair game". Rove is hardly the good doobie of the White House.

[snowbear]

3. We probably just need to give it time..

And rememeber Chris Matthews is the only person in the universe who thought Bush won the first debate against Senator Kerry.

Even the R's he had on the panel directly after the debate told Matthews off for thinking Bush actually did a decent job.

Matthews doesn't know chit.

[NAO]

4. For chrissake, it's ROVE were talking about - the master of disinformation

ROVE is a master propagandist; a master manipulator of public opinion. His unique style is a fusion of the tactics of the advertising/PR trade and the techniques of psychological warfare.

The best place to hide the truth is right out in the open. Just surround it with a massive number of lies, some very obvious, some very close to the truth. The obvious ones will be instantly discredited and will by association discredit all the other lies and the truth. The subtle lies will be later discredited after rigorous research and will then convince even the die-hards that everything is lies. And then you can utter the plain truth, right out in the open, and no one will believe it. No need to deny it; no need to hide it or cover anything up. Just smile and move on...

[FormerRepublican]

5. Well...

Couldn't we spike his plans by pointing out all the inconsistencies in his stories? Isn't that what they'll do in the Grand Jury (hopefully)?

Perhaps we should start a campaign to flood the reporter who writes one of the inconsistent stories with email pointing out the inconsistent facts. Might make it a bit harder for Rover to fiddle the facts if he's consistently outed.

[snowbear]

6. Hey Former Republican..

Good point about the way the press is covering this story so far..

I just looked at all of the latest stories on Google news and most all of them seem to be echoing Rove's lawyer in their titles.

It's tough to find a story about how he was involved without seeing of "But....." tacked onto the content.

Scary! :o

BTW- Here's the guy defending the creep: http://www.pattonboggs.com/attorneys/detail.aspx?id=96ea6d2c-0a8f-4cac-9155-620a5fe0dbc4