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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (37205)	7/20/2005 9:42:07 AM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

Then and now The TV networks ran 58 stories on the Karl Rove-Valerie Plame-Joseph Wilson flap from July 10 to yesterday, although the special prosecutor has never said Mr. Rove is even the target of the investigation, the Media Research Center's Rich Noyes reports at www.mediaresearch.org. "Even though the morning shows often eschew esoteric political stories, there have actually been 32 morning-show segments devoted to Rove, compared with 26 on the evening newscasts," Mr. Noyes said. "Flash back seven years ago to the Lewinsky scandal, when the New Yorker ran an article attempting to discredit Linda Tripp by announcing that she had been arrested for shoplifting as a teenager, but hadn't noted the arrest when she applied for a Pentagon security clearance (because the judge had expunged the arrest from her official record). "Bill Clinton's Pentagon spokesman, Kenneth Bacon, eventually confessed to leaking Tripp's confidential personnel file to the New Yorker's Clinton-friendly reporter Jane Mayer, but his 'apology' could be described as less than contrite: 'I'm sorry that I did not check with our lawyers or check with Linda Tripp's lawyers about this,'?" he said at a May 21, 1998, briefing. "But when the victim was an anti-Clinton whistleblower, the networks didn't seem to care that a high-ranking government official had used an illegal leak (violating the Privacy Act) to a reporter in an effort to discredit a critic. From March 1998 to November 2003 (when Tripp was awarded $595,000 from the Defense Department), the ABC, CBS and NBC morning and evening shows ran just 13 stories on Clinton's 'Leakgate' over five-and-a-half years. Much of the coverage was downright hostile to Tripp, not those who violated her privacy."