Lede Buried …
… but the dead horse lurches on like a quadruped zombie. NYT, eager to flog it some more, reckons Cheney’s got a reckoning still to come, because the dark lord’s innate evil badness has been revealed.
In legal terms, the jury has spoken in the Libby case. In political terms, Dick Cheney is still awaiting a judgment.
This is appears to suggest that the Democrats might stop liking him or something.
“There is a cloud over the vice president,” the prosecutor, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, told the jury in summing up the case last month.
There’s an unimpeachable source. Fitzgerald, after all, is the one who revealed to the world that this scoundrel would dare to engage in politics, and respond to critics. Even go so low as to scrawl notes on the margins of Joe Wilson’s NYT op-ed …
asking “did his wife send him on a junket?”
The Times notes that we live in a litigious society.
Now, Mr. Cheney faces a civil suit from Mr. Wilson.
But fails to note that there may be a reckoning in store for Mr. Wilson and Ms. Plame. Depositions can be a bitch. Any way,
Ms. Matalin said Mr. Cheney remained as influential as ever where it counts — with Mr. Bush.
Still, liberal critics of the administration had a field day with the trial. They are hoping the Democrats who now control Congress will use the case to investigate Mr. Cheney’s role further.
And there’s your lede. The all-Sturm, no-Drang Democratic Congress, having discovered it can’t end the Iraq War, is going to need something to do for the next two years, if it wants to appear like it is doing something.
Or, seeing as this is really a mood piece with no meaningful information in it at all, then maybe this, currently located at the bottom of this meander, is the lede:
With a career in politics that goes back to the Nixon White House, Mr. Cheney is no stranger to Washington scandal and how to weather it.
Meanwhile, Howard Kurtz notes that a tour of the sausage-making factory can cut, grind and mince both ways.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:05 am Comments (9) on Wednesday, March 7, 2007
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March 7th, 2007 at 9:10 am
Why do journalists/bloggers spell ‘lead’ ‘l-e-d-e’?
March 7th, 2007 at 9:34 am
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March 7th, 2007 at 10:21 am
But they soooo desperately want to see Cheney “frog-marched out of the White House”! Please, please, please, PLEEEEEEEEEZ, why can’t they have that? They wouldn’t ask for anything else, ever again, please?
March 7th, 2007 at 10:26 am
So as not to confuse it with “lead,” which is what type was made of. That’s the ancient lore, anyway.
March 7th, 2007 at 11:44 am
Okay…we have Cheney with a cloud over his head and some health issues…or so the MSM would have us believe.
Last I checked, Connecticut has a Republican Governor.
Cheney resigns…then in a historic hands across the aisle love fest…GWB appoints Joe Lieberman as his new Vice President, Governor Rendell appoints a Republican to replace Lieberman.
Lieberman gets to make the 2008 presidential run from the Vice Presidents chair, which is the best place to run from.(For which party..who knows).
The Republicans regain control of the Senate.
NYT should be careful what they wish for.
March 7th, 2007 at 1:10 pm
My disgust with this obcenity is such that I can barely articulate it. Sandy Berger and his pants get away with a major felony, while Libby’s life is ruined because he didn’t say “I don’t remember” enough.
Now we know what is so “special” about this special prosecutor. Frankly I’ve had it with the breed. Between Starr and Fitzgerald, all I see accomplished is a monumental waste of taxpayer money and a political landscape strewn with wrecked careers and lives, all in the name of a vindictive persecution. As much as I disliked Clinton, I didn’t like it when they went after him this way, and I don’t like it now. Only the media wins.
The Lady Justice that stands over the Justice Dept. needs to be reworked–with the blindfold and scales removed, let her stand with her hands on her hips, and a scowl on her face; rename her Madam Scold.
March 7th, 2007 at 1:23 pm
Saltydog, and give her a great big wooden spoon. Or a hairbrush.
March 7th, 2007 at 6:06 pm
Gee, did anyone else just hear, that Denis (with one N, as he stated) Collins, juror in the Libby trial, was an acquaintance of Tim Russert?
Did anyone know that Denis (with one N) Collins has commented and has wriiten posts at Huffington?
Wonder if he was the jury forman, or that the real reason this bullshit went past 1 hour, is that Denis (with one N) needed 10 days to convince, other weak minded left thinkers?
March 7th, 2007 at 6:38 pm
Aplogize if my above post is old news. Have been out of pocket all day and just heard the above on Fox News….then went to HuffPo as Fox indicated..
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
WHAT THE JURY THOUGHT:
“I Think They’re Lying. Every One Of Them”
Ari Fleischer: “Slick Willie. Not Believable”…
Dick Cheney: “We Would Have Liked A Good Look”…
Judith Miller: Defense Attacks Created “Sympathy” For Her…
By Denis Collins, Juror #9