RawStory: RNC Talking Points from Mehlman re: Rove

[Roland99]

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/RNC_RESPONDS_ON_ROVE_PARTISAN_POLITICAL_ATT_0712.html

Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman has issued a statement, acquired by RAW STORY, saying questions about Rove's role in leaking the name of a CIA agent are part of a 'partisan attack.'

The following is a release, along with RNC research they believe supports their position.
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"It's disappointing that once again, so many Democrat leaders are taking their political cues from the far-left, Moveon wing of the party. The bottom line is Karl Rove was discouraging a reporter from writing a false story based on a false premise and the Democrats are engaging in blatant partisan political attacks." -RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman

More at the link.


Rush was blaming this on a partisan attack today on his show (along with some other stuff)

[Hawkeye-X]

1. This talking point fails.

They can use the talking point all the want to death, but one undisputable fact remains. Rove did something, and it's gotten himself into a bowl of hot trouble along with his cronies and his puppets.

Hawkeye-X

[emulatorloo]

2. sadly though the media is running w it -- Wife Sent Wilson lie, etc

Rove's lawyer is repeating, AP, MSNBC, ETC are buying it:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4079209&mesg_id=4079209

[Zen Democrat]

10. They have a bit of a problem, SP isn't investigating Joe Wilson ....

eom

[emulatorloo]

16. watch for Ken Mehlman next work: "Out-Of-Control-Prosecuter"

I predict another week or so. . . .

[asjr]

4. They are all trying to protect themselves and it

just keeps getting worse. The "Brain" just might have bitten off more than he can chew.

[Roland99]

5. If you read through the list of articles/citations...

you find a lot of reports produced by Republicans or articles with some guesswork in them or just flat-out reaching on their conclusions. And then there's the whole red-herring issue of linking Wilson to Kerry's '04 campaign.

[emulatorloo]

8. Why Does Ken Mehlman Hate America?

Sorry, I just felt like saying it, and it makes me feel better to say it.

[rocktivity]

3. A false story on a false premise--like the Smear Boat Liars???

You Rethugs should certainly know a false story on a false premise when you see one.

But Karl did was "discourag(e) a reporter from writing a false story based on a false premise," then why didn't say so two years ago? Why didn't he simply stand up and say, "My bad"? Because he knew he wasn't supposed to have the information about Plame in the first place? Remember, Karl, you weren't a hoity-toity muckety-muck Bush cabinet official then, just an advisor. If you knew about Plame, it's because someone told you--in order for you to tell the press.

:headbang:
rocknation

[emulatorloo]

6. Karl and RNC conveniently forget that the "16 Words" were false

as they make up lies about Wilson.

[Julius Civitatus]

7. Talk about spin!!! He's playing Twister with the truth!

[aquart]

9. "Democrat leaders"?

I just love the way they arbitrarily decided that we are no longer the Democratic Party but the Democrat Party. You can only do that to somebody too weak to protest.

I think Mehlman would look great in orange.

[MaineDem]

11. I agree with you

I notice the use of "Democrat Party" all the time now and it's like fingernails on a blackboard to me. Sorry, many of you probably don't remember blackboards. :evilgrin:

But they certainly are consistent with it.

[warrens]

12. Gee, I read all those talking points that supposedly prove

That Wilson lied that he was sent by Cheney. Except he never said it. He said he was sent by the CIA who wanted to brief Cheney about the yellowcake. After he gave them his verbal report, he had nothing more to do with it. Evidently, he thought they told Cheney. Maybe they did, maybe they didn't, but that's what he was told.

They're desperate. You should see FRetard City today. They're screaming that Wilson is a convicted liar and a Clintonista (in fact, he worked under the elder Bush and Clinton) and blah blah blah. This one is going to take down a good chunk of the administration before it's over. And they know it.

[Roland99]

13. Hell, Wilson is the last man to have met w/Saddam before Gulf War 1

I would think he was sent by Poppy...not Clinton. ;)

[rniel]

14. From what I heard on npr this morning

from some girl on the right wing payroll is that Valerie Plame had nothing but a desk job anyway. She wasn't undercover. Which I'm sure is a bunch of bullcrap. I think they will try to spin it like that.

[Roland99]

15. She worked for someone on the Senate Intelligence Committee

Sounds like she was quite out of the loop and most likely talking out of her ass.

[emulatorloo]

17. So which is it, lowly secretary or Authorizer of Husband's Free Trip?

I am sure they will eventually get their spin straight. . .

[Roland99]

18. Blech! Saw that meelyman on the nightly news tonight.

:puke:

[paineinthearse]

19. Were H&C & O'Reilly waiting for the talking points last night...

... thus no mention of Rove on their shows?

Well, that's what John Conyers says Stephanie Miller said!

See http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=1923706&mesg_id=1923706

[paineinthearse]

20. DNC's counter points

See http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=1924136&mesg_id=1924136