Naturally, as the oft-cited architect of much of President Bush’s political success, the left would love to be rid of Karl Rove, President Bush’s senior political advisor.
Those of you who are following the current phoney left-wing-invented “scandal wannabe” involving (they hope!) Karl Rove, are well served by the lead editorial in today’s Wall Street Journal. It reflects my sentiment—which is that Karl Rove deserves an award, not the left-wing and their media’s hilarious effort to discredit him. But of course because he deserves an award, the liberal media see that as all the more reason to attempt a character assassination of him. That’s the way liberals work. Sound familiar, Canada? It aught to. Liberal media in Canada work by the same playbook.
Democrats and most of the Beltway press corps are baying for Karl Rove’s head over his role in exposing a case of CIA nepotism involving Joe Wilson and his wife, Valerie Plame. On the contrary, we’d say the White House political guru deserves a prize—perhaps the next iteration of the “Truth-Telling” award that The Nation magazine bestowed upon Mr. Wilson before the Senate Intelligence Committee exposed him as a fraud.
For Mr. Rove is turning out to be the real “whistleblower” in this whole sorry pseudo-scandal. He’s the one who warned Time’s Matthew Cooper and other reporters to be wary of Mr. Wilson’s credibility. He’s the one who told the press the truth that Mr. Wilson had been recommended for the CIA consulting gig by his wife, not by Vice President Dick Cheney as Mr. Wilson was asserting on the airwaves. In short, Mr. Rove provided important background so Americans could understand that Mr. Wilson wasn’t a whistleblower but was a partisan trying to discredit the Iraq War in an election campaign. Thank you, Mr. Rove.
And over at the New York Daily News, Michael Goodwin writes, in “Civil War, D.C.-style”, that Rove is facing a battle from the opposition—the same battle that any conservative in Canada faces: from the opposition, which is to say the media (in addition to the other liberals in official “parties”—or are they exactly one and the same? Why yes, I do believe they are.)
[…] The intense grilling that White House reporters inflicted on presidential spokesman Scott McClellan Monday over whether political guru Karl Rove leaked the name of a CIA operative was no ordinary give-and-take. It was a hostile hectoring that revealed much of the mainstream press for what it has become: the opposition party.
Forget fairness, or even the pretense of it. With one of its own locked up – Judith Miller of The New York Times – much of the Beltway gang has declared war on the White House.
Reporters apparently have decided Democrats aren’t up to the job. Can’t blame them. With Dems reduced to Howard Dean’s rants and Hillary Clinton’s juvenile jab that President Bush looks like Mad magazine’s Alfred E. Neuman, somebody has to offer a substantive alternative. The press has volunteered.
That the mainstream media are basically liberals with press passes has been documented by virtually every study that measures reporters’ political identification and issue positions. But bias has now slopped over into blatant opposition, a stance the media will regret. Instead of providing unvarnished facts obtained by aggressive but fair-minded reporting, the media will be reduced to providing comfort food to ideological comrades.
Already held in lower esteem by the public than lawyers and Congress, the press risks looking like a special interest group. Its claims to represent “the American people,” as one McClellan inquisitor did, are easily ignored when it serves as an echo chamber for the anti-Bush.
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