GOP Caught in "Leak" Frame

[bettyellen]

Frameshop: GOP Caught in "Leak" Frame

With so much written about Democrats being caught in GOP frames, it sure is nice for a change to see a Republican thrashing around inside a Democratic frame.

Hats off to Talking Points Memo for catching Kenny Mehlman--GOP Chairman extrordinaire--try to punch his way out of the "leak" frame (the piece is posted here):

RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman, "visiting Iowa Wednesday, said senior Bush adviser Karl Rove rightly tried to steer a reporter away from a story about Iraq's nuclear intentions, but didn't illegally expose an undercover agent in doing so. ‘A leak is when you ask a reporter to write a story. He was discouraging a reporter from writing a false story,’ Mehlman…told The Des Moines Register during a trip to Iowa." Mehlman "said that Rove was complying with investigators and that Democrats who have called for the influential Bush administration adviser to resign are trying to tar Rove and the White House. ‘He has also fully cooperated with the special prosecutor,’ Mehlman added. ‘For Democrats to smear him by alleging that telling the truth about a false story -- not anyone has said he told her name or what she did -- in my judgment is inappropriate.’"

Everyone in the Democratic message network can stand up and take a bow: The Chairman of the GOP is officially trapped in the "leak" frame.

(applause)

© 2005 Jeffrey Feldman

http://www.frameshopisopen.com/

[Der Blaue Engel]

1. I think they will all soon be "leaking" in their pants n/t

[bettyellen]

2. :)

hi betty

[Der Blaue Engel]

3. Hi, Betty!

:hi:

[DURHAM D]

4. And there is nothing worse than leaking in your pants and

down into your cowboy boots. You have to walk around in your own shit for days.

[natrat]

5. not that elections matter much anymore-but

if this rove creep is indicted his defenders will look preety bad protecting treason

[Name removed]

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[ClassWarrior]

7. It's against DU rules to post Radical RW propaganda.

NGU.

[Name removed]

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[Beetwasher]

10. Take Your Head Out Of Your Ass

If no crime was committed, someone must have forgotten to tell Fitzgerald (a Republican) and the CIA who asked for the investigation. The investigation was not instigated by Dems, Dumbass.

[ClassWarrior]

11. I'm just citing the rules.

You know. Law and order and such.

NGU.

[LondonReign2]

13. Catapulting the Propaganda

This is another of the Repuke talking points...but thanks for dutifully repeating it.

Again, if no law was broken, why did the CIA ask for an investigation? Why didn't Fitzgerald shut down the investigation as soon as it was apparent there was no crime?

Nice propaganda, but endlessly repeating it doesn't work when you aren't talking to your Freeptard friends.

[nyhuskyfan]

14. Something wrong like...

fabricating and cooking intelligence in order to mislead the public into supporting a war of choice? That's pretty wrong.

So it looks like we both agree. Bush, Cheney, Rove and all should go.

Thanks for playing.

[Garbo 2004]

16. And what happened with the friend of the court brief? The court

disregarded it. Curious, that. What info does the court have that is not a matter of public record? Hmn?

'Ta.

[LondonReign2]

9. Buh-Bye!

Sure glad you find treason perfectly acceptable -- as long as your guys perpetrate it.

Why do you hate America's national security?

[Name removed]

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[ClassWarrior]

19. All I did was give you a friendly caution about the rules and...

...correct your grammar. I'm disappointed by your attitude, gary.

:shrug:

NGU.

[nyhuskyfan]

20. He NEVER said that Cheney sent him anywhere

He said that the CIA sent him to respond to questions from Cheney's office. Big difference.

Keep drinking the kool-aid.

[Garbo 2004]

22. Get your facts straight, Wilson didn't say Cheney sent him. Easy to find

since it's a matter of public record, as you like to say. Go to original sources.

And again, the court disregarded that brief because it has info that is not public record. Excised from its decision to pursue contempt of court charges against Cooper and Miller. Read up on that too while you're at it.

BTW, for anyone interested, here's the pdf of the Appeals Court decision. Judge Tatel's opinion in particular where he concludes:

"Were the leak at issue in this case less harmful to national
security or more vital to public debate, or had the special
counsel failed to demonstrate the grand jury’s need for the
reporters’ evidence, I might have supported the motion to quash.
Because identifying appellants’ sources instead appears essential
to remedying a serious breach of public trust, I join in affirming
the district court’s orders compelling their testimony."
http://pacer.cadc.uscourts.gov/docs/common/opinions/200502/04-3138a.pdf

[LiberalFighter]

27. He can't help getting the facts wrong...

he and his buddies only have rush windbag and others to give them the straight poop

[Beetwasher]

24. I'm Not Calling You Names, You Are, In Fact, An Idiot

You've read nothing but Roves talking points and that makes you a de facto idiot. Read what Wilson said, he never said Cheney sent him you moron. And there's no way his wife could have sent him you idiot. The CIA doesn't work like that, it's impossible. :eyes:

You're right, it's only the Repubs that offer hunger and poverty to Americans.

[ClassWarrior]

12. By the way, one "outs" Jeff Guckert. One "blows the cover" of a US agent.

NGU.

[kevsand]

15. So what you're saying is

that Jeff Guckert and the verb "blows" should not be in the same sentence. Does it matter if he's the subject or the object? And what about the intransitive case? I'm just askin...

[ClassWarrior]

21. Ouch! Good point.

NGU.

[IChing]

17. Was that Mehlman, that was just on this post? Posing as Gary trying to..

Punch his way out of a leak frame?? LOL

[vickie]

23. Kenny Boy Mehlman is noxious, despicable vermin. The

sight of him chronically bloviating and lying makes me sick.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

25. The New Meme (Frame) is: Bush Failed to Fire Rove . . . nt

[ClassWarrior]

26. Nice use of "failure"...

Language matters. Use words with impact, people.

NGU.