According to WaPo's David Broder, the media should be apologizing to Karl Rove. "These and other publications owe Karl Rove an apology. And all of journalism needs to relearn the lesson: Can the conspiracy theories and stick to the facts."
Whatever. The piece reads like this, "Wah, wah, wah." Karl Rove is a snake and everyone knows it. Now that the tides of public opinion on GWB, GOP, etc. are turning, suddenly Rove is a victim? We think not! And this whole Plame blame game ain't over yet, in our humble opinion.
What doesn't come out in the wash, will come out in the rinse.
Anyway, here's more of Broder's cry-baby piece: One Leak and a Flood of Silliness
By David S. Broder
Thursday, September 7, 2006; A27
"Conspiracy theories flourish in politics, and most of them have no more basis than spring training hopes for the Chicago Cubs.
Whenever things turn dicey for Republicans, they complain about the "liberal media" sabotaging them. And when Democrats get in a jam, they take up Hillary Clinton's warnings about a "vast right-wing conspiracy."
For much of the past five years, dark suspicions have been voiced about the Bush White House undermining its critics, and Karl Rove has been fingered as the chief culprit in this supposed plot to suppress the opposition.
Now at least one count in that indictment has been substantially weakened -- the charge that Rove masterminded a conspiracy to discredit Iraq intelligence critic Joseph Wilson by "outing" his CIA-operative wife, Valerie Plame...."
