Why is the White House Press Corps...

[Van23]

so PO'ed about this Rove thing? They handled the administration with kid gloves on just about everything else--such as Iraq, W.'s selection by the SCOTUS, vote fraud in Ohio, etc,. etc. What makes this so different?

The anger is good to see, but I don't know what makes this so much different from other issues.

[Walt Starr]

1. Rove has lead them around by the nose for six years straight

They hate the fucker and want to see him go down. He's force fed them everything since Bush was a glimmer on the radar screens of the GOP.

[Wetzelbill]

8. great minds think alike, except I said 5 years

[Walt Starr]

17. I included the time befoe he even announced

when Rove was creating "George W. Bush" in the media.

[Wetzelbill]

21. see that's what separates you geniuses from us mere mortals

:)

[Beaver Tail]

2. Rove burned one one of them and is letting her hang for his crime

[Vickers]

3. "They have been secretly replaced with real journalists."

Jon Stewart said something like that the other day. :rofl:

[BlueIris]

19. HAH! Jon might win back my viewership for this.

And he and I have been on the outs for some time now.

[KeepItReal]

22. If you see his new set design you may decide to drop him again

It looks like the Daily Show went through a round of budget cuts or something.

[halobeam]

24. ooo please don't say that...

my repub brother just bragged to me that Stewart's ratings are down. Way down, near cancellation. I didn't believe him. He's the guy that believes everything O'Reilly says. He thinks right wing gets more viewership because it's more exciting. Ugh.

[Richard Steele]

23. Then you need to see Wednsday's interview with Bernard Goldberg!

I think you'll really enjoy it.

[Wetzelbill]

4. after nearly 5 years of being Rove's punching bags they finally.....

have a chance to get rid of the asshole.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

5. They are shooting at Rove while aiming at the pretzeldent...

figuratively speaking..... they may feel that it is easier "safer" to attack the person closest to shrubber and hope some of it will rub off on him.... maybe not.

[Erika]

11. Rove is not being "attacked"

They are trying to hold him accountable. This administration has acted as if they were some poor victim of the big mean media. Not true.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

12. Agreed.

[Erika]

6. One of their own is in jail

for keeping her mouth shut on the sources while Rove is being protected and held unaccountable.

[Tamarin]

7. They're Pod People. n/t

[LaurenG]

9. They are afraid of pissing of the potus

he's not quite right. You saw what he did to that "bobby" in London.:yoiks:

[Fridays Child]

10. Some think it's because one of their own sits in jail.

She's exactly where she deserves to be for covering up a crime against our national security. But if it has galvanized the media, so be it.

[Erika]

14. Rove is the one who threatens our national security, not her

As a reporter and a believer in the freedom of the press, she kept her mouth shut and protected her sources.

[Fridays Child]

15. I'm with Greg Palast on this one.

http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=444&row=0

[0rganism]

13. This is revenge, sweet sweet revenge for five years of mental sodomy

Sure, we know at least some of the WH press corps have been, literally and/or figuratively, GOP whores. But a fair number have, or perhaps once had, aspirations to become legitimate journalists in their own right. It's a tough ride to live through five long years of tongue-biting lip service under the most outrageous circumstances with various & sundry threats to your job, livelihood, health and family hanging overhead. Finally, a tiny glimmer of a chance to challenge and overcome one of the greatest journalistic bêtes noire to inhabit an administration!

I can but wonder what sort of purge will transpire if they fail.

[GoBlue]

16. Maybe it's a triple super secret

plan to get Rove off. They all live on a different planet from you and me.

[housewolf]

18. Because this time it's personal to them...

Scottie lied TO THEM... that makes it personal. It's not the president doing his political thing of lying to the nation, it's someone they know, have dealt with on a daily basis, who lied directly to them. It's personal.

And now he's stonewalling them, refusing to talk about things he talked about before. It's personal.

[jmcon007]

20. I've wondered to. Could it be that this is the one man they can bury

to make their own lives better? They know Rove doesn't discriminate when it comes to spreading rumors and slandering people and they've always had that hanging over their heads. The Plame case is a case in point.

......they see their chance to help get rid of him and they're jumping on it.