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To: Elroy who wrote (242180)	7/19/2005 12:54:09 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574002

Feeding frenzy "Clearly, there is blood in the water" in the Karl Rove-Valerie Plame affair, syndicated columnist Pat Buchanan writes. "To listen to and look in the gleaming eyes of the liberal media on cable news, you can see they smell it," Mr. Buchanan said. "Clearly, when Scott McClellan said no one in the White House had any connection with the outing of Joe Wilson's wife as a CIA operative, he was misled by White House colleagues. For we now know, from Matt Cooper's notes, that Rove cited Plame -- if not by name -- as promoting Wilson for the CIA-sponsored visit to Niger to check out the yellowcake story. But the White House press corps has begun treating McClellan not like a man who misspoke, but like some defiant inmate at Guantanamo. "What is causing the beginnings of a press feeding frenzy is a sense -- and probably correct -- that something big is coming down. After all, Patrick J. Fitzgerald has likely not spent two years turning over rocks without finding at least one lizard. And he and Judge Tom Hogan would probably not be sending journalists to jail unless they were onto something serious. "And if Judy Miller went to jail rather than reveal a source, why did the source not release her rather than have her go through this? Is she covering for a high White House aide with a criminal liability? "But with the baiting of McClellan and the 'death watch' of TV cameras outside Rove's home, the press should know it is not perceived here as simply advancing 'the people's right to know.' Everybody knows this is about what Watergate was about and Iran-Contra was about: bringing down a Republican president the left could not defeat at the ballot box. "New York Daily News columnist Michael Goodwin calls the mainstream media 'basically liberals with press passes,' who have become the opposition party. "But if the White House wins this fight, the media will be the losers. And even if the White House loses this fight, Middle America will say the press crippled another president. Lose-lose, as they say."