MSNBC: Rove indictment anouncement causes standing ovation by 700

[Harper_is_Bush]

including Sen. Hillary Clinton.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12799420/

[redqueen]

1. YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!

:applause:

:bounce:

[Karenca]

2. Kick and Rec!!! ...... Thanks! .... eom

[gaspee]

3. Read the whole article (NT)

[Karenca]

5. Thanks....I got carried away .......eom

[Catherine Vincent]

4. He's making fun of the standing ovation.

[dogday]

6. Read the article...

this is misleading, please correct...

[Harper_is_Bush]

9. I read the article in it's entirety. How is it misleading?

From the article:
"At a Michigan Trial Lawyers’ Association dinner Saturday night in Dearborn, Mich., the group's vice president Robert Raitt announced — according to the Detroit Free Press — that President Bush’s longtime strategist had just been indicted. The announcement reportedly prompted a standing ovation by the crowd of 700, which included Sen. Hillary Clinton."

Given that, I think the post title is 100% accurate.

I'm open to suggestions though if you still believe a correction is in order.

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[liberalhistorian]

25. It's misleading and incorrect

because it implies that Rove has been indicted and not that it was just an announcement by a trial lawyers association president. It's very misleading because it has "MSNBC's announcement of Rove's indictment", and that is totally incorrect.

[Harper_is_Bush]

26. No, there WAS an announcement that caused a 700 person standing ovation

And that is what is reported by MSNBC.

The title does not state that MSNBC announced the rove indictment.

We'll have to agree to disagree, because to me the meaning is quite clear and accurate. If anyone is misled, I think they're just not reading it carefully enough.

[Dhalgren]

7. So Karl laughing at everyone and doing a little nose-thumbing

as well. Karl HAS NOT been indicted, at least, not yet. Whoopee...

[Spazito]

8. Actually, I like the REAL headline of this commentary

A final word from Karl Rove?


Seems like even while making fun, the author is still hedging his bets on whether it is true or not. Same chicken shit MSM kind of thing, imo.

[Harper_is_Bush]

14. Me as well, but the point I've highlighted demonstrates the impact

of the Leopold story. Some believe that if an indictment doesn't materialize, it's no big deal. No harm done. I think this stands in stark contrast to that belief.

[Spazito]

17. Oh, I understood, from the outset, what your point was

that was VERY clear and has been for some time.

[Harper_is_Bush]

18. sigh.

more silly sniping.

If you have a complaint or a conspiracy theory or whatever, take it up with admin please.

[Spazito]

20. LOL, I just agreed with you that your point was clear n/t

[Harper_is_Bush]

22. Sorry if I misunderstood

I've been the target of a bit of innuendo of late.

[bdamomma]

10. rove is as deadly as a snake

and totally arrogant. I wonder if he will smile like tom delay did in his picture. arrogant bastard.

[rodeodance]

11. National Public Radio’s Mara Liasson, “I love watching you on television

.....Strange then that a relaxed-looking Rove – not indicted, not out on bail, and wearing a business suit, not orange prison garb -- was in person at the right-wing think tank, American Enterprise Institute Monday morning.

Rove was, as usual, nerdy in his use of statistics, and was chummy and flattering with the reporters present -- just like in 2000 when Bush was first running for president. At one point in the question-and-answer session Rove told National Public Radio’s Mara Liasson, “I love watching you on television.”

If Rove is indicted soon, as some Democrats hope and expect, then this may have been Rove’s valedictory message and the essence of it was: things are better than you, especially you in the mainstream news media, think.

[Harper_is_Bush]

23. I always thought he looked like a perv. n/t

[rumpel]

12. I saw Rove's "valedictory message" on C-span

His Wonderland has no audience...

Interesting that it mentioned Detroit Free Press reported on the indictment.
Quick check could not find it there....

[Harper_is_Bush]

16. re: detroit free press, it reads badly. Read it this way:

The Detroit Free Press reported that Robert Raitt announced that President Bush’s longtime strategist had just been indicted.

[Taxloss]

13. And then 700 people checked the story and felt rather foolish.

It was a room full of senior Democrats, judges and lawyers. According to this report they all jumped to their Blackberries to verify the stor - and no one was able to. Not one of them was able to, with all their contacts.

Sunday, an embarrassed Acker told me he'd passed along the report of Rove's indictment after hearing it from Mark J. Bernstein, an Ann Arbor lawyer whose resume includes a stint in the Bill Clinton White House.

Bernstein told me he was meeting with Hillary Clinton and several members of her staff in a Hyatt Regency reception room early Saturday evening when "everybody began reaching for their BlackBerrys at roughly the same time."

He insisted that simultaneous e-mails reporting Rove's indictment were based on Internet speculation, not unauthorized disclosures of grand jury proceedings.

"Did anyone speak to the special prosecutor? No. Would I have published the report? No," Bernstein said Sunday. He learned the rumor had been disseminated only when his father, prominent personal injury lawyer Sam Bernstein, phoned from the banquet hall downstairs with an excited bulletin: "Karl Rove has just been indicted!"

[rodeodance]

15. “Nice try, though” he told Corn.

He parried a question from Liasson about why conservatives were so unhappy with Bush’s record on restraining spending. “It’s hard,” he explained, saying that Bush’s veto threats had kept Congress even bigger spending increases.

“It is hard to go up there on (Capitol) Hill and say, ‘We’re asking you to absolutely cut non-security, discretionary spending.”

There was only one reminder Monday of the investigation by special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald: Rove refused to answer a question from David Corn of the Nation magazine on whether he’s leaked information about former CIA employee Valerie Plame. “Nice try, though” he told Corn.

[Leopolds Ghost]

21. Why should they be embarraseed to cheer if this doesn't pan out?

Gosh, I really want to protect Hillary Clinton's reputation as a fence sitter by avoiding this kind of spontaneous outburst of popular political expression.

"Sure, I got up and cheered, and it's a damn shame the report was wrong. The man desrves to be indicted" is what they should be saying.

End of (meaningless) meta-story.

[ruggerson]

24. Because it makes Democrats look like idiots n/t

[robbedvoter]

27. Wanting justice is idiotic? Crooks&traitors belong in jail!

Sorry you fail to see the real issue.