Cynical Nation

And, yet again, we have another grand jury leak which seems to bother absolutely nobody.

How sad.

Wonder what Bill Press, the liberal pundit, who called Rove's purported actions treasonous and claimed he should be jailed is feeling?

Or Terry Moran of ABC who was abusive of Scott McClelland earlier this week?

Old Chinese proverb:

He who lies down with dog, wakes up with fleas.

Let's rename Joe Wilson to Pluto or Rin Tin Tin Wilson!

Has it ever occurred to you that what Joseph Wilson was that once Bob Novak blew her cover, his wife ceased to be a clandestine officer?

I thought not.

You might want to read John Cole on this. He's on YOUR side, but he's not so blinded by Adoration of the Codpiece that he can't see that a double standard is being used here in which the Bush Administration is being absolved of everything you guys would be screaming bloody hell at the Clinton Administration about.

I swear, George W. Bush could be caught on camera sodomizing male infants, then dismembering them with a chain saw, then dining on them with fava beans and a nice chianti, and you guys would still continue to worship him, because to do otherwise is "treasonous at a time of war."

Well, it's hard to say what the right-wing would do in this case.

We do however know that the left-wing did when Bill Clinton was caught sodomizing a young intern and then lied to the nation about it: They marched out in front of the Capitol and called him the bestest president of all time forever and ever.

But I do love it when Jill posts here and accuses us of partisanship. It's so cute the way she does it with no hint of irony. :-)

Warden..

There was consequences to Clinton's behavior. He was impeached and tried in the Senate. He lost his ability to practice law. Yes, there were many who came to his defense, but the press did not stand back and just accept his "I did not have sex with that woman" nonsense. He was wrong to have sex with an intern in the Presidential office and he was a liar when he tried to parse words and act as if oral sex was not really sex.

Mal..

Scott McClelland was abused? Well, he did tell the press corp prior to the election that he personally was assured by Rove and others that they had nothing to do with the leak. Now, that it appears that they may very well have something to do with the leak, he wasn't talking. It is the job of the press to ask questions and it is his job to answer questions. The fact that the press got testy when he was no longer answering questions is not what I consider to be "abuse".

PE,

Indeed there were some consequences to Bill Clinton's words and deeds, though it can be argued whether they were appropriate in scale.

And if Karl Rove leaked the name of a covert CIA agent, there should also be consequences.

I do think the media feeding frenzy is a little hypocritical, however, given that the MSM is printing unlawfully leaked grand jury testimony, the New York Times "outed" a CIA undercover operation in it's own pages, and Joe Wilson went on air and lied about the contents of his own Niger report.

And no one got too worked up over any of that.

But hey, that's how the game is played - different standards for different people. I understand that the poor behavior of others does not mitigate poor behavior on the part of Karl Rove.

But, after all this is said and done, there is no there, there. Which, I think, was Barry's point -the left continues to howl even when evidence points to this being a non-story.

Also, PE, Clinton's "punishment" was in no way executed by his left-wing defenders, which was why I brought him up when Jill accused right-wingers of defending GW at any cost.

Mal - a friend of mine and I discussed the grand jury leak over the weekend. I don't know about everyone, but there are some of us who are very disturbed about it.

I'm just browsing around your site for the first time, interesting read