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

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Mike Miller wrote:
> 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

Fair enough.  I'll accept your explanation as plausible if not definitive.

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Stephen Montgomery-Smith
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