Incestuous Relationship - the Press and the White House

[kentuck]

Josh Marshall is pointing out a story on his blog about a senior official telling Walter Pincus of the Washington Post that Wilson's wife worked for the CIA. Earlier today, Matthew Cooper confessed in a Time magazine article that he had tried to get Libby to waive his confidentiality agreement and that when he went to the Supreme Court, he got his "other source", Karl Rove to release him. So I guess he did not have to say what Libby had told him - only what Rove had told him? Also, today, Tim Russert, of General Electric Corp, gave a detailed time log of different dates of meetings, etc of reporters and Lewis Libby. Matt Cooper even confessed that he was "rebuked" by Libby for not printing an entire quote in one of his articles. And we are all familiar with the 85 days that Judy Miller covered up for Libby in a Virginia jail. So, just how incestuous is this relationship between the press and the White House? How could they accurately report anything of importance on these criminals when they were inbed (embedded) with them?

[Faygo Kid]

1. Hear, hear. You are so right.

Love the way they fawn over Bush at his barbecues for the press. The "upper class," well off Washington and New Yawk "reporters" are more Judy Miller than Woodward-Bernstein. They are of the same "class," i.e. wealthy, educated and totally out of touch. They, too, were shocked at the poverty in New Orleans. Had no clue. Would sure like to see some brass knuckle, up from the working class reporters instead of the elites from only the finest families and journalism schools who have contacts, family or otherwise, with the editors of, say, The Washington Post or New York Times.:yourock:

[pretzel4gore]

2. the true criminality is in the boardrooms of the pigmedia

even during watergate, the washpost was the player who threw bush (nixon) his lead parachute, yet noone ever raised the issue with the herd that the news media, the effective news media, is political gangster run.

[kentuck]

3. And Ted Olsen was Cooper's lawyer?

The same Ted Olsen that Chris Matthews has been pushing the last few days for the next Supreme Court Justice? Was Tweety interviewed by the Special Prosecutor also?

[pacalo]

4. Consider NBC's Pete Williams, who was a Pentagon spokesman in 1991...

during Poppy's administration. Now he's working as a "watchdog for the People", analyzing what goes on in Junior's administration.

[pearl]

5. Filth, sheer filth

all of them :puke:

[pacalo]

6. It's no wonder we're placing huge hopes on Patrick Fitzgerald...

he's the only checks & balances we have for getting at the truth.