Rove's Attorney Thumps The Blogosphere

Karl Rove's attorney, Robert Luskin, takes a victory lap with Anna Schneider-Mayerson of the NY Observer.  He is not kind to the blogosphere:

Actually, it’s the media—not the prosecutor’s office—that he’s angry at, and especially the bloggers. Mr. Luskin was eager to portray the suffering of his client as a function of media attention and speculation, rather than real danger of a conviction.

 

Mr. Rove, Mr. Luskin said, had fallen victim to partisans and—more importantly—the bloggers who became their enablers.

...“That is a function of the tension that there is now between the mainstream media and the blogosphere. On the one hand, it seems to me that the CBS National Guard stories were the poster child for the principle that sometimes the blogosphere keeps the mainstream media accountable, and it seems to me that this story is, if you will, the poster child for the fact that the blogosphere is itself often not accountable, and that there are a universe of folks out there who have got personal or political agendas who were masquerading as news sources. That is just as destructive in its own way, or more than the mainstream media’s insularity is on the flip side.”

Meanwhile, the Wash Times names names in the mainstream media:

Unfortunately, at times, some in the media sounded more like cheerleaders for Mr. Wilson, who said in 2003 that "it's of keen interest to me to see whether or not we can get Karl Rove frog-marched out of the White House in handcuffs." In October, New York Times columnist Bob Herbert referred to Mr. Rove as "the administration's resident sleazemeister, who is up to his ears in this mess but has managed so far to escape indictment"; in November he declared that Mr. Rove and Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, were "clowns" who had been "playing games with the identity of a CIA agent."

Keith Olbermann of MSNBC turned his TV show, "Countdown," into a veritable repository of misinformation: A Lexis-Nexis search shows that the subject of Karl Rove's demise was discussed 26 times on Mr. Olbermann's program. In an Oct. 28 appearance, Jim Vandehei of The Washington Post quoted "people close to Rove" who "are telling us that there's still a distinct possibility that he could be indicted, and that they probably will know soon." On the same broadcast, NBC News Correspondent Norah O'Donnell said that Mr. Rove "has come within a whisker of being indicted." But even though Mr. Rove had escaped indictment, Mrs. O'Donnell said it was still bad news, because he was still working at the White House: "In a way, it might have been even cleaner and more helpful to the president if Rove had gotten nipped with some minor level of indictment, so that you could just get rid of both of these people [Messrs. Rove and Libby] today." On the May 8 "Countdown" broadcast, MSNBC correspondent David Schuster said flatly, "I am convinced that Karl Rove will in fact be indicted."

How Chris Matthews escaped their lash I don't know.

Comments

[verner]

How much you guys wanna bet Joe's blackberry is singing!!!

Well, let's knock another 100k off Val's book deal--assuming she ever gets one.

[topsecretk9]

--LOL. Larry won't know what hit him. You think he will be happy he let me back in? ::grin::--

HAT TIP, SUPER HAT TIP SUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Scary's worst nightmare!

[topsecretk9]

---TM can not be blamed.---

Well I certainly think he walks pretty close on water -- he is after-all a "cult" master -- but I think even TM knows that even though Al Gore invented it - TM does not control the "internets"

well, a bit...wai, well now stop...did you guys get the beamed in message when you woke up too? ::grin::

[clarice]

Because PW is blog of the week, it's on the top of powerlineblogline's list..HEH

[Chants]

Someone wake up Seixon.

[verner]

OK, Lucianne, Sweetness-Light, Byron York at the Corner, Free Republic, Protein Wisedom, Hot Air...have I left out anyone?

I can see a Britt Hume grapevine in the making. And a long piece in the Wall Street Journal on Larry, the VIPERS and their close personal relationship with Joe Wilson.

Fingers Crossed.

Sue, Larry is going to rue the day he messed with you!

[Bill in AZ]

Sue, verner, ya'll better be careful... scary larry and his buddies have "done things"... er... scary things, I think.

[Sue]

Bill,

That's why I call him Scary Larry. ::grin::

I ain't afraid of Scary. He doesn't have the brains to be dangerous. 'sides, I sleep with a sawed off shotgun and a mountain of a man. ::grin::

[verner]

Oh Really? Scary things Bill?

Did I mention my close family member--a registered Republican--in the FBI?

[Lurker]

Yeah, more like the conservative, accurate, and correct 60-minutes about the VIPSers, et al.

Wow, I can't believe how fast people are linking to that LJ post from their own sites. Kudos to all of you hot-tippers.

[Sue]

I just hope everyone mentions Scary's close, personal relationship with the Wilsons when they discuss him.

[Chants]

http://www.kono.com/vault/further.jpg

I think we need another.

[Lurker]

LJ just called topsecret:

:Preacher Lady,
Save your breath dear with topsecretk9. He is in a junior college and is not likely to graduate. He lacks the mental tools to excel but has chosen to comment on blogs as a way to compensate for his many inadequacies. A truly sad soul. Karl's mom would have put him in a home.:

[Chants]

TSK9 is so pathetic she broke the Larry/Wilson/Leopold connection. Here, on this blog.

[Sue]

Come on Chants, I wasn't going to out my source until Jason did. ::grin::

[Lurker]

ROFL!

Has anyone sent a screen copy of the entire article...to Luskin?

[verner]

Update from Allahpundit! Larry's trying to change the post!!! Too Late honey. We got it for ever and ever:

Update: Amazing Larry has more to share with us. Not content to accuse Rove of having driven his mother to suicide, he’s added some new stuff (a) comparing him to Josef Goebbels, (b) calling him fat — twice, for emphasis, (c) reminding us that his mom “would not be proud.” He tosses the “chickenhawk” shit in too for good measure.
Inexplicably, he’s also changed his original smear from “Small wonder his mother killed herself” to “This could help explain why his mother killed herself.” Why? Is this douche so removed from reality that he thinks the new phrasing mitigates it any? It’d be like a mental patient telling you “I went potty in my shoes today,” walking away, then coming back to say, “Actually, I went doody in my shoes today.”

[Lurker]

And how many posts will Larry delete AND how many posters will Larry end up banning by COB tomorrow?

[Lurker]

Poor Tim having to ask Sue who Scary is....

[topsecretk9]

---topsecretk9. He is in a junior college and is not likely to graduate. He lacks the mental tools to excel but has chosen to comment on blogs as a way to compensate for his many inadequacies. A truly sad soul. Karl's mom would have put him in a home.:---

Larry is soooooooooo f*&*ing sexist. Apparently, Larry thinks it takes A MAN to do what I do!!!

[AMDG]

Clarice Says:
[I]AMDG, It may be.Whisper the name in my ear, and I'll tell you.[/I]

AMDG Responds:
Tried to e-mail you but it bounced back.

I don't want to get too specific since I do not want to be the cause of you being stalked. I was going to link to one of your pieces in American Thinker but I thought better of it.

Let me ask you this - Does the term "Notorious MOI" mean anything to you

[JM Hanes]

tops

What about a continuous series of screenshots tracking the changes hour by hour to be made into tomorrow's video for Malkin's Hot Air?

[Lurker]

Hot Air should include some posts as part of tomorrow's video. Especially the ones of anti-Bush tirade.

[JM Hanes]

Have I told you guys lately that you rock? Talk about a field trip! The Field Trip of Field Trips.

[Chants]

TSK9,

Larry Johnson: prejudiced against canines!

[Lurker]

Here's cowboyneck's post:

"God, you trolls need to just give it a rest. Your collective chastising of Larry Johnson for mentioning Rove's mother's suicide is going nowhere. Its not like Republicans have some sort of ethical higher ground, and the rest of us haven't figured out we have to fight fire with fire. Yeah, thats right, anything is fair game anymore, including Rove's dead mother. Who taught us to fight that dirty? Well, it was none other than that filthy pig, Karl Rove, himself. So, give your weeping and gnashing of your teeth over Larry's post a rest... your patronizing diatribes don't work around here. In other words, go tell it to your Mama's.

Like Larry said, "We are fighting for the soul of our nation..." When things get this serious, then "being nice" doesn't cut it anymore. "Being nice" is what got us into this trouble in the first place. "Being nice" let Karl Rove and George Dubya Bush happen."

All the more...to prove Ann Coulter was right after all.

[topsecretk9]

---tops

What about a continuous series of screenshots tracking the changes hour by hour to be made into tomorrow's video for Malkin's Hot Air?---

Oh you!!! Too tired, but you are soooo right!

[Sara (The Squiggler)]

TS - did you post the Protein Wisdom link on the Larry Johnson Rove remarks? His entire post is worth reading, especially the changes to LJ's orig. post.

Just in case, here it is again. Now I'll scroll back and try to catch up.

http://www.proteinwisdom.com/index.php/weblog/entry/20542/

[Rick Ballard]

Lurker,

A swing through the rest of nutroots land might be worthwhile. I can't afford any more bleach but I'm curious as to the number of times "over the line" might be mentioned. Or not.

[verner]

Oh Man. What is the Cowboy smoking? Doesn't he realize that Byron Yorks Corner post will be all over DC by tomorrow morning's coffee--and Larry will never get a serious media gig again--ever.

He'll be relegated to the fetid swamp of moonbatdom--right next to George Galloway. You think the Wilsons will admit to knowing him after that little screed?

[topsecretk9]

---Posted by: AMDG | June 15, 2006 at 09:23 PM

---

Cough up the name or let it go.

[JM Hanes]

Lurker

"Your collective chastising of Larry Johnson for mentioning Rove's mother's suicide is going nowhere."

ROTFLMAO! Someone should tell him that it's going, going, gone.

[topsecretk9]

JM-

I have before and afters (and afters include all comments (give or take 3) to the minute....

[clarice]

AMDG--Yes, it does..And yes, you got it right. I don't know why the email bounced back, my email was acting up for a bit.

[Bill in AZ]

I went dumpster diving at kos. There are a few comments, and some agree that scary larry crossed the line. Some are whining that FreeRepublic altered his words, not realizing that scary larry changed his words.

[Bill in AZ]

nothing at StrewthOut...

[JM Hanes]

tops

And to think that just today I was http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/15/technology/15video.html?ex=1150603200&en=a961e9b3c30fa1c5&ei=5087%0A>reading about some new video-for-dummies type websites where you can apparently "self-produce" a video from just about anything!

[AMDG]

It will have no impact at all. One of the benefits of being a moonbat is that you don't have to pay a price for hateful speech.

[topsecretk9]

--I went dumpster diving at kos. There are a few comments, and some agree that scary larry crossed the line. Some are whining that FreeRepublic altered his words, not realizing that scary larry changed his words.--

pity screnn shots.

AMDG

I don't why I don't get you.

[AMDG]

Topscret -

The same reason why I sometimes don't get my 6 year old daughter - You are a heck of a lot smarter than I am.

FWIW I was responding to Verner's post regarding what would happen to Johnson as a result of his screed.

[topsecretk9]

--FWIW I was responding to Verner's post regarding what would happen to Johnson as a result of his screed.--

Do tell...what do you think?

BTW

I just posted Larry's nice email he sent to Tom Christian...you know the one his lefists whorshipers cringe at the idea of ...EXCEPT if they are listening to Al Queda...

From : lcjohnso
To : "tomchristian@juno.com"
Subject : Re: And just like George Bush.
Date : Wed, 24 Aug 2005 22:28:00 -0400 (GMT-04:00)

Well, I'm keeping track of you phone conversations. Friends on the inside,
you know. You really shouldn't be so rude to telemarketers

-----

Oh, I am sure there are SOOOOO many lefties just downright despondent that Larry woudl even TEMPT someone on the OUTSIDE with -------listening-------to their-----phone------calls------------!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[topsecretk9]

---EXCEPT if they are listening to Al Queda...--

I meant to say they would like to PROTECT this right.

[topsecretk9]

As described recently in NR (see "Mr. Counterterrorism Guru," June 5, 2006), former CIA analyst Larry Johnson is much admired on the left for his criticism of the Bush White House in the CIA leak affair. A high-profile participant in the last week's YearlyKos conference, he is quoted widely in the press — in recent months, he has been cited in the Washington Post, the New York Times, Associated Press, National Public Radio, CNN, MSNBC, the New York Daily News, Knight-Ridder, and other outlets. But on his own website, No Quarter , he is able to express himself more, well, directly, about news of the day. This evening, for example, he offered his thoughts on Karl Rove:
Leave it to the Porcine Draft Dodger — Karl Rove — to impugn the character of combat veterans. Can't blame him for trotting out the same playbook that worked so well in 2004 against the candidacy of John Kerry. If it worked once it should work again.

Of course I am referring to Karl's speech Tuesday night to Republicans in New Hampshire. According to a piece in Wednesday's Washington Post.
In a speech to New Hampshire Republican officials here Monday night, the White House deputy chief of staff attacked Democrats who have criticized the U.S. war effort in Iraq, such as Sen. John F. Kerry (Mass.) and Rep. John P. Murtha (Pa.), who he said advocates "cutting and running."

"They may be with you for the first shots," Rove said of such opponents. "But they're not going . . . to be with you for the tough battles."

Karl is a shameless bastard. Small wonder his mother killed herself. Once she discovered what a despicable soul she had spawned she apparently saw no other way out. It would be one thing if his vile tactics were simply mere smears of politicians like Kerry and Murtha. They are big boys and should be able to defend themselves quite ably against this turd.
Posted at 11:07 PM

round 2..DING ...DING...

LARRY JOHNSON, IN HIS OWN WORDS, PART II [Byron York]
Update: Larry Johnson has now amended, slightly, his post on Karl Rove. There are no major changes, but apparently Johnson realized he had forgotten to compare Rove to Joseph Goebbels, and he has now corrected that oversight.
Posted at 12:43 AM

http://corner.nationalreview.com/

[Syl]

Extraneous

I accept that there's an upside to the Republicans framing their resolutions, but why not just give them a length of rope and see what they do with it? What's the worst that can happen?

Actually, this prevents the Dems from being able to throw red meat at their base. They can't pretend to promise bringing our troops home.

[ordi]

Top,

It's nice to see that Rove's exoneration is driving scary larry CRAZY. Of course we knew it was a short drive. LOL

[noah]

Reminds me of the same sort of unhinged reaction to a Rove speech about a year ago when he pointed out that some on the left called for understanding of Al Qaeda following 9/11!

[PeterUK]

Rbert Luskin should make a statement pointing up this is exactly the pusillanimous and scabrous kind of comment emanating from the blogs sinister.
Karl Rove should also speak,in a dignified but grieved fashion.
Then they should sue Larry's arse into a cardboard box.

"Like Larry said, "We are fighting for the soul of our nation..." When things get this serious, then "being nice" doesn't cut it anymore."

Are they trying to create the Crips Nation?

[Jane]

Nice job everyone! There was something magnificent about watching the whole thing unfold. You guys rock!

[PeterUK]

Larry the registered Republican billed here as a CIA ANALYST.

again analyst

Analysts dont't train at the Farm

Where is all this leading? Scary Larry is in fact Larry Dogsbody,so......where exactly did Larry meet Val and observe her skill with an AK47?

[Tom Maguire]

Was even Tom Christian banned?

DON"T SAY THAT NAME! /Scary Larry impression.

Anyway, no, and neither has our OJ fan, Super Mario 111.

[sbw]

Cleo: Now that I'm offically persona non grata @JOM, guess I'll have to peddle my lefty wares at this site.

Recall recent euphemisms:
- Fake but accurate.
- Ahead of the news cycle.
What phrase will Cleo invent to apologize for his particular misrepresentation?

"Lefty's Disease" is easily understood, if you know where to look. Find a copy of Richard Mitchell's Less than Words Can Say.

Words never fail. We hear them, we read them; they enter into the mind and become part of us for as long as we shall live. Who speaks reason to his fellow men bestows it upon them. Who mouths inanity disorders thought for all who listen. There must be some minimum allowable dose of inanity beyond which the mind cannot remain reasonable. Irrationality, like buried chemical waste, sooner or later must seep into all the tissues of thought.

Our responsibility is to recognize it, identify it, and laugh it into submission, for our own safety's sake.

[Charlie (Colorado)]

Please do not misunderstand...I am not advocating "cut and run"...call it the "in-country over the horizon strategy".

Would that be something like "Iraqi forces take the front positions, with US logistical support and as backup forces, and with major operations including roughly 10 percent US forces"?

[Semanticleo]

"Cleo: Now that I'm offically persona non grata @JOM, guess I'll have to peddle my lefty wares at this site.

Recall recent euphemisms:
- Fake but accurate.
- Ahead of the news cycle.
What phrase will Cleo invent to apologize for his particular misrepresent"

sbw;

Huh!

[Jane]

Michael Barone's take on the last 10 days:

http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110008527

[Semanticleo]

Since we're all 'sharing'....

Leo--

Perhaps TM adopted Larry's approach...when asked why he deletes comments he emailed:

I don't delete comments. I delete junk mail and mindless blathering.

Posted by: topsecretk9 | Thursday, 15 June 2006 at 14:00

'Banning' is such an ugly word. It's easier to just f...over using the little tools available at typepad. Now, that's a republican ethic you can all get behind. You know, like putting lipstick on a pig and calling it Miss America. But....it's not
BANNING, is it? You know like, because if Leopold got WHEN Rove was gonna be indicted,
then Rove must not be the sociopathic endomorph everyone says he is.

Wagners' '...Valkyries' played through
a 10 megawatt McIntosh Amp and
Altec Lansing 'Voice of the Theatre'
drivers and woofers cascading, and
not competing with the rotor clap
of the Hugheys as FitzZorro, cigar
clenched in his ivory keys; shouts
orders to his men "Nail that endo-
morph!"

Almost instantaneously, rocket pods
explode around the rotund Rove,
too absorbed in masticating his
T-Bone on a stick, to react to the
lightning attack. Nevertheless,
he scrambles, thinning hair
a'smolderin', to shelter under a side-
walk Bistro table, which conceals
little of his ample frame. Fitz
pulls the dogrocket out of his mouth,
and almost imperceptibly whispers;
"I love the smell of bacon in the
morning."
copyright;semanticleo

[Jane]

copyright;semanticleo

You afraid someone is gonna steal that?

[PeterUK]

Glad you put Leo at the top Cement,easier to scroll over,keep it up.

[Sue]

Y'all be nice to Leo. He didn't go over too well at Scary's place either.

[Semanticleo]

You afraid someone is gonna steal that?

Are you a republican? Ah, excuse me.

Are you a TYPICAL republican?

[sbw]

Cleo: Huh!

"Now that I'm offically persona non grata @JOM, guess I'll have to peddle my lefty wares at this site." - Posted by: Semanticleo | Thursday, 15 June 2006 at 13:10

That's not true. It's fake and not even accurate. It's ahead of the news cycle.

When one peddles an untruth, it is at enormous personal cost. Once exposed, such people can never be trusted again.

Wriggle with euphemisms as they might, they are the ones hurt most by the lie. People who lie don't value language. Language is the coin of the realm, the only means by which people relate. Liars don't see it. They cannot. They have not the language to see it. It's not pretty. It's sad.

[monkey trainer]

'Banning' is such an ugly word. It's easier to just f...over using the little tools available at typepad. Now, that's a republican ethic you can all get behind. You know, like putting lipstick on a pig and calling it Miss America. But....it's not
BANNING, is it? You know like, because if Leopold got WHEN Rove was gonna be indicted,
then Rove must not be the sociopathic endomorph everyone says he is.

Is this supposed to make some kind of sense in english? Why do you feel it is necessary to lie about being banned/censored? What do you hope to accomplish with that?

In fact, have you had a single actual point you are trying to make in this entire thread? If so, please, succinctly list it. I would love to know what your point / argument here is. I'm sure everyone would be interested. Rational debate can be fun!

[Jane]

You afraid someone is gonna steal that?

There are lots of words I could "steal" from here. I steal Tom's words constantly -but with attribution. I'd love to steal some of Clarice's velvet prose, and many others - PUK, Topsecret and Lurker come to mind.

But then again I'm inclined to steal stuff that actually makes sense - which is probably why I don't understand your concern.

[clarice]

I stole Ambassador Munchausen from Rick. I admit it. I'd like to think that's the first step in recovery, but, nah, I know I'd do it again.

Here's the latest on Hamdaniya and the no brass balls military. http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=5587

[Barney Frank]

"'Banning' is such an ugly word. It's easier to just f...over using the little tools available at typepad."

Paranoia: n. para-(beside)+nous (the mind) a mental disorder characterized by systemized delusions, as of grandeur or especially persecution.

[PeterUK]

Barney,
It is hard for a paranoid personality when nobody is out to get them.

[sad]

Sue and Tops

Thanks for the awesome joyride yesterday. I was a total lightweight in comparison to the two of you, but thanks for letting me tag along anyway. Scary's numbers are back up again so he's probably happy as well.

[Sue]

Sad,

I didn't do that much. My posse, however, kicked ass!

[Gary Maxwell]

Hey Leo

I called you a Liar yesterday. Now we know I was just being facetious. But as it turned I was in fact clairvoyant. You are a big fat liar. You claimed to be banned when you knew it wasn't true. You reappearance here make the prima facia case for you being a blad faced liar. The only thing I cant devine as yet was what was to be gained by the lie? Status with a bunch of paranoid nut cases? "Hey look at me, the JOMers banned me." How really pathetic a creature you must be.

[clarice]

He was performing a sort of internet version of touching coup.

[PeterUK]

"Banned at JOM" does that have the same cachet as wearing a thong in downtown Tehran?