Tom Tomorrow CARTOON SKEWERS NYT role in Treasongate & NYT STILL doing it

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Sat Nov-05-05 04:06 AM
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Tom Tomorrow CARTOON SKEWERS NYT role in Treasongate & NYT STILL doing it

Edited on Sat Nov-05-05 04:15 AM by Nothing Without Hope

As I'll post below the cartoon, the New York Times is STILL - to this day! - pursuing the same policy of publishing Bush Administration propaganda and choreographed "leaks" and labeling it news.

This great cartoon is hosted at Working for Change: http://www.workingforchange.com/comic.cfm?itemid=19818

Now, featured on the DU home page is a truly shameful NYT article in which unnamed sources - who are surely Rove's lawyers and/or Bush Administration propagandists, spinning for all they're worth - are quoted as showing that Rove is cooperating fully and that the Fitzgerald investigation is almost over. This is pure Bushie propaganda and they are claiming it is news - shades of Judith Miller's Chalabi articles. Here's the thread on the article:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1899334
thread title (11/3): NYT: Prosecutor Narrows Focus on Rove Role in C.I.A. Leak

Here is my take on this sorry piece of deliberately misleading rubbish:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1899334&mesg_id=1901277
post title (11/4): This shameful article: a prime example of what's rotten at the NY Times

And best and most delightful of all, as pointed out by DUer No Exit in another reply to that post on the NYT article, here is the debunking of that sorry, deliberately misleading NYT article at Firedoglake. She (the brilliant lady at Firedoglake) added the text in caps to the original NYT text in lower case. (BTW, be sure to check out the lead-in photo montage at Firedoglake - it's toast with a faint but recognizable superimposed image...)

http://firedoglake.blogspot.com/2005/11/toast.html
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The prosecutor in the C.I.A. leak case has narrowed his investigation of Karl Rove, the senior White House adviser, to whether he tried to conceal from the grand jury a conversation with a Time magazine reporter in the week before an intelligence officer's identity was made public more than two years ago, KARL ROVE'S FURIOUSLY SPINNING lawyers in the case said Thursday.

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Mr. Fitzgerald no longer seems to be actively examining some of the more incendiary questions involving Mr. Rove ACCORDING TO ROVE'S WANKY LAWYERS WHOSE WARES NOBODY THIS SIDE OF MICHAEL ISIKOFF IS BUYING. At one point, he explored whether Mr. Rove misrepresented his role in the leak case to President Bush - an issue that led to discussions between Mr. Fitzgerald and James E. Sharp, a lawyer for Mr. Bush, an associate of Mr. Rove said, IN AN ATTEMPT TO FLOAT A MORE PLAUSIBLE STORY AFTER THAT ONE ABOUT FITZGERALD STOPPING BY TO TELL SHARP EVERYTHING THAT WAS GOING ON IN HIS CASE WENT OVER LIKE THE HINDENBURG.

Mr. Rove's lawyer, Robert D. Luskin, declined to discuss his client's legal status, BUT HAD SOME MINION ON SPEED DIAL WHO WAS HAPPY TO DO THE HONORS, but AND THEN TRIED TO THROW EVERYBODY OFF THE SCENT WHEN HE referred to a statement issued last week in which he expressed confidence that Mr. Fitzgerald would conclude that Mr. Rove had done nothing wrong, AT LEAST NOT IN THE PAST FIVE MINUTES.

Mr. Fitzgerald's spokesman, Randall Samborn THE MAN WITH THE WORLD'S SLIMMEST JOB DESCRIPTION, declined to discuss Mr. Rove's legal status AND COULD FOR ALL WE KNOW BE SCUBA DIVING IN THE BAHAMAS. If nothing else, the uncertainty that continues to surround Mr. Rove's legal case has led to intense speculation about his standing within the White House LIKE SHARKS TO CHUM. People with close ties to Mr. Bush and Republicans who work with officials in the top ranks of the White House staff said there had been no discussion about Mr. Rove stepping down if he is not indicted AS THEY TRIED TO MUFFLE THE GUFFAWS.

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