WSJ: Karl Rove deserves Truth-Telling Award

[quaoar]

Rather than admit that one of their own might have done something unethical or criminal, the right wing has decided to lash out at those who are oppressing poor martyred Karl Rove.

They are not only defending him -- they are actually praising his actions. It is a new low in shamelessness.

http://opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110006955

Democrats and most of the Beltway press corps are baying for Karl Rove's head over his role in exposing a case of CIA nepotism involving Joe Wilson and his wife, Valerie Plame. On the contrary, we'd say the White House political guru deserves a prize--perhaps the next iteration of the "Truth-Telling" award that The Nation magazine bestowed upon Mr. Wilson before the Senate Intelligence Committee exposed him as a fraud.

For Mr. Rove is turning out to be the real "whistleblower" in this whole sorry pseudo-scandal. He's the one who warned Time's Matthew Cooper and other reporters to be wary of Mr. Wilson's credibility. He's the one who told the press the truth that Mr. Wilson had been recommended for the CIA consulting gig by his wife, not by Vice President Dick Cheney as Mr. Wilson was asserting on the airwaves. In short, Mr. Rove provided important background so Americans could understand that Mr. Wilson wasn't a whistleblower but was a partisan trying to discredit the Iraq War in an election campaign. Thank you, Mr. Rove.

[swag]

1. Recall when that same rag's editorial page informed us that the

California power crisis was not due to Enron's trading schemes, but to "failed deregulation."

Though some good reporting occasionally slips into WSJ, that paper's editorial page is a shitrag.

[MnFats]

2. Jesus. This is just becoming surreal, like some fantasy...

It's "Newspeak" taken to levels Orwell couldn't have imagined...

War is Peace
Ignorance is Strength...

...Liars are Truth-Tellers
...Criminals are heros
...Traitors who endanger lives are honorable leaders....

what next????

[Vogon_Glory]

3. Another Blow To WSJ's Credibility

Such editorials are yet more blows to the fraying credibility of a once-trustworthy--if highly conservative--business and investment journal. I wonder how much of the WSJ's readership still trusts what the Dow Jones periodical reports away from the op-ed pages and how many of the WSJ's genuine journalists really like the fact that their employer has become a "Conservative" movement propaganda organ.

[emulatorloo]

4. WSJ Op-Ed pages have always been **insane** - most people ignore them

and read the rest of it. . .

[quaoar]

5. Actually, if you read the WSJ editorial page

You get a jump on that day's Republican groupthink.

The WSJ is quite influential in setting the Republican agenda.

[Eloriel]

6. Or does the Republican agenda inform the WSJ editorial page?

I think it's the latter.

[brettdale]

7. This is satire right?

I have emailed them and asked them that.

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[Clark2008]

8. I still laugh when I think of the time Keith Olbermann told me that

the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal was written by the Brothers Grimm! :rofl:

I guess this makes his case for him, doesn't it? It's quite a yarn!