Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] [POLITICS] Novak: No Bush Administration Effort to Discredit Joe Wilson

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:

> Novak: No Bush Administration Effort to Discredit Joe Wilson
>
> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,203234,00.html
>
> I tried looking for this story on the CNN and MSNBC websites as well, 
> but none of them told it like this article does.  So either FoxNews is 
> dressing up the story, or the other news organizations are dressing it 
> down, or both.
>
> Basically it comes across that Novak tricked the information out of the 
> White House - Rove's comfirmation of Plame's identity seems more a slip 
> of the tongue than a concerted effort to endanger her.  All in all it 
> seems to me that the media attention, and the attacks on the credibility 
> on the White House now seem like an extremely shoddy and dishonest 
> political attack. Novak comes out looking like a sleezeball if ever 
> there was one, and all this talk of "protecting the 1st ammendment" 
> comes across as pure hypocracy.


Basically, Novak is a lying sack of s___.  Why would you believe him even 
for a second?  What makes you think he is trustworthy?  You say that he is 
"a sleezeball" but you believe his story -- there is nothing to back it up 
except for his word.  Novak is getting inside information from the White 
House and he is using it to promote himself as a columnist, so he has 
plenty of reason to lie to defend The Administration.  Here are some facts 
that contradict Novak:

http://mediamatters.org/items/200607130012

1. Novak's assertion -- in his new column -- that the leak was 
"inadvertent" appears to conflict with an earlier assertion he made: ... 
in a July 22, 2003, Newsday article by reporters Timothy M. Phelps and 
Knut Royce, Novak was quoted saying that his sources leaked Plame's CIA 
employment because "[t]hey thought it was significant":

    Novak, in an interview, said his sources had come to him with the
    information. "I didn't dig it out, it was given to me," he said. "They
    thought it was significant, they gave me the name and I used it."

2. even before Novak received the information from his primary source, 
administration officials had reportedly disclosed Plame's CIA employment 
to other reporters

Based on this information, I agree with Stephen:  Novak is a sleazebag. 
He is also a liar.

Question:  Why is Novak lying now?  Well, maybe it is to manipulate public 
opinion before a jury is selected for this civil suit:

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=2192318
http://mediamatters.org/items/200607130010

Mike

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