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On Friday, Editor and Publisher hyped this Sunday NYTimes magazine piece by Michael Crowley about the influence of conservative vs. liberal blogs.
Maureen Dowd and Paul Krugman offer stiff competition on a weekly basis, but Crowley’s embarrassing little squib (283 words) has to be one of most insipid, shallow, and uninformed wastes of space to grace [...]

***scroll for updates throughout the day…223pm EDT liveblogging Fitzgerald news conference…240pm EDT Fitzgerald: “We have not made any allegation that Libby knowingly/intentionally outed a covert agent…300pm EDT “This indictment is not about the war. Not about the propriety of the war…” 310pm EDT “We’re not quite done, but I don’t want to add to a [...]

Via Breitbart/AP, the federal grand jury investigating Plamegate met for three hours today with Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald and adjourned for the day without announcing any action.
Tom Maguire, who has covered every twist and turn of the story, posts his predictions. He thinks there will be no Karl Rove indictment.
If so, Chris Matthews’ [...]

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Another disastrous crony appointment in the making
This is Julie Myers, President Bush’s nominee to head the the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency under the Department of Homeland Security.
Her nomination is a joke. A bad joke: (via WaPo)
The Bush administration is seeking to appoint a lawyer with little immigration or customs experience to head the [...]

Bulldog Pundit at ABP noticed this at Daily Kos:
Two more weeks, folks, before we take them on, head on.
No calls for a truce will be brooked. The DLC has used those pauses in the past to bide their time between offensives. Appeals to party unity will fall on deaf ears (it’s summer of a [...]

The Associated Press is reporting this evening:
The husband of Cindy Sheehan, the mother camped outside President Bush’s Texas ranch to protest the death of a son in the Iraq war, has filed for divorce, according to court documents.
Patrick Sheehan filed the divorce petition Friday in Solano County court, northeast of San Francisco. His lawyer [...]

After 15 days of silence, the New York Times has filed a thin little report on the Air Scamerica/Air Enron fiasco. But you need a magnifying glass to find it. Go the the NYTimes.com homepage. Nothing there. Click over the National section. Nothing there. Find your way to the NY/Region section. Scroll way down past [...]

In response to questions from radio reporter Perry Michael Simon about New York City’s corruption probe involving the alleged diversion of public funds from two non-profit clubs that benefit poor kids and seniors to Air America, the liberal radio network put out a statement yesterday. Bottom line: Don’t blame us. Here’s the text via [...]

Weird. For some reason, Cafe Press just sent me an e-mail coupon–$5 off orders of $30 or more–on Karl Rove novelty items (mostly anti-Rove), including t-shirts, hats, buttons, and other junk. Check out the entire Rove product line here.
Here’s a Rove-bashing throw pillow. Here’s one of the few pro-Rove buttons.
The Left may be [...]

Ugh. The Plame games are making me ill. And it’s not just the rhetoric on the left that is causing nausea. I am now seeing many of my friends on the right invoke the “John Kerry did it” card to pooh-pooh Rovegate.
See here, here, and here, for example.
I addressed this incident back in April: Did [...]

Compare and contrast…
NY Times headline: Rove Reportedly Held Phone Talk on C.I.A. Officer
AP headline: Source: Rove Got CIA Agent ID From Media
The NY Times clings to the Evil Genius narrative, despite what its own reporting and follow-ups from other press outlets shows…
NY Times lead graf:
WASHINGTON, July 14 - Karl Rove, the White House senior adviser, [...]

White House press secretary Scott McClellan got grilled yesterday afternoon on Rove/Plame-mania and came under intense pressure from the MSM hounds, particularly NBC’s David Gregory and ABC’s Terry “The Royal” Moran:
Woof. Woof. Woof. Woof.
I actually have no problem with McClellan getting justifiably barked at during his daily briefings (if only we had more [...]

Bush-bashers have been in a tizzy all weekend over the latest Rove revelations. The Washington Post follows up; Pavlovian salivation ensues.
For a non-heavy-breathing perspective, read:
Betsy Newmark on the “scandalette.”
Lorie Byrd at Polipundit on “Some Of The Worst ‘Reporting’ I Have Seen – And That’s Saying A Lot.”
Tom Maguire at Just One Minute plays editor and [...]

From the Democratic Underground:
- Its (sic) a war. My country’s army is killing civilians; am I a “fair target?”
- the root causes of terrorism are what needs to be addressed in order to get a handle on changing these circumstances. There are myriads (literally) of terrorists who have reasons for what they are doing and [...]

There was a lot of heavy breathing over the weekend about Lawrence “Creepy Liar” O’Donnell’s claim that Karl Rove was the source of the Valerie Plame leak.
The Newsweek story from Isikoff is here.
O’Donnell blusters some more here.
Guest-blogger Rob Port at Wizbang deconstructs O’Donnell.
Charles Schumer huffs and puffs.
Guest-blogger Dafydd at Captain’s Quarters has a [...]

When last we heard from the paranoid codger, he was blaming Karl Rove for Newsweek’s bogus Koran desecration story.
The NYPost’s Page Six brings us the latest Mailer-strom:
Norman Mailer is catching static over “Asiatic.” The literary lion offended the politically-correct crowd by denouncing New York Times critic Michiko Kakutani as a “kamikaze” and an “Asiatic, feminist [...]

Gratitude and good reads:
- Thank you, Mark Steyn!
- Thank you, John Hawkins!
- Thank you, Instapunk!
- A pro-American in Paris
- Andy McCarthy double: Making Karl Rove a prophet and It’s all about 9/11
-Austin Bay: Why the long war must be won
- FEC vs. bloggers round-up at Wizbang and all the latest at Red State’s FEC blog.
-Check [...]

My new column is up, taking off from this blog post yesterday on the insipid “Operation Respect: Don’t Laugh at Me” curriculum being introduced into the NYC public schools. Intro:
White House senior adviser Karl Rove caused a firestorm last week after observing that liberals favor “therapy and understanding” to fight terrorism in a post-Sept. [...]

Hot day ahead for the Supreme Court as it ends its term; hands down some highly anticipated rulings (including a Ten Commandments case and the Cooper/Miller confidential sources appeal); and prepares for a likely resignation.
Hugh Hewitt and Bill Kristol had dueling predictions last week. Hugh sez Rehnquist; Kristol sez O’Connor. We’ll know soon enough. [...]

From Karl Rove, quoted in today’s NY Times:
Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers.
Right. On.
Democrats are now calling on Rove to apologize. Apologize? For what?
For distilling [...]

According to Business Week, Howard Dean’s foam-at-the-mouth schtick is a dud with Dem donors (hat tip: Daly Thoughts and The Hedgehog Report):
One hundred days into his tenure as the high-energy, higher-decibel chairman of the Democratic Party, Howard Dean is in trouble with party moneybags. The former Vermont governor seems to be doing a better [...]

Meet Timothy Shortell, Brooklyn College’s recently-elected chairman of the school’s sociology department:

Shortell received 7 out of 12 faculty votes to secure his new position, despite (or perhaps because of) crackpot online rants comparing Karl Rove to Joseph Goebbels and attacking religious people as “moral retards.”
It says something that students are more outraged at Shortell’s election [...]

Democrat Maurice Hinchey, the N.Y. congressman who claims Karl Rove planted the CBS Rathergate memos, is still unhinged.
Now, he’s blaming “Republican spin” for his junket addiction.
The Federal Review takes down Hinchey’s excuses.

Confederate Yankee and GOP and the City weigh in.

My new column looks at increasingly unhinged Democrat leaders, seemingly inspired by Teresa “They hacked the mother machines” Heinz Kerry.
Here’s the story on John Kerry kvetching about “trickery.” James Taranto traced the origins of the “Vote on Wednesday” joke that Kerry complains about to…Al Franken. RedState reports on “Ohio’s not-so-odd numbers.”
Trey Jackson has video highlights [...]

One thing is clear from those who are cackling over news that Sen. Mel Martinez’s legal counsel, Brian Darling, is the author of the so-called GOP/Schiavo Talking Points Memo: Your reading comprehension level is lower than my 17-month-old son’s. And he’s just started reading picture books.
Giddy e-mailers are demanding that conservative bloggers, including myself, “retract” [...]

First, a new tidbit to report on the Schiavo talking points memo mess.
I spoke with the Seattle Times’ chief copy editor (4/3 1153 correction) National/Foreign Editor, Jim Mallery, yesterday. He confirmed that this article was excerpted directly from a Washington Post article distributed by the Los Angeles Times/Washington Post News Service. The statement that [...]

The chaos never ends. Today, the Seattle Times reports that as many as 660 provisional ballots in the governor’s election were counted without proper eligibility checks.
Democrats promise to do better next time, now that their candidate Christine Gregoire has been installed in office. They are also blaming talk radio–natch– for the mess:
Julia Patterson, D-SeaTac, [...]

Little Green Footballs has been all over the story of Democrat Maurice Hinchey, the N.Y. congressman who claims Karl Rove planted the CBS Rathergate memos.
Confederate Yankee, a constituent in Hinchey’s district, can’t get anyone from the congressman’s office to respond to his inquiry about the remarks. The local press has buried the controversy. E-mail [...]

From the “Malkin’s Believe It Or Not” file…
CAIR, the Muslim activist group that has at least three former officials who have been indicted on charges of terrorism, money laundering or fraud, was recently welcomed by the State Department to discuss foreign policy initiatives. From Islam Online:
CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad presented in the meeting — [...]

Over the weekend, Maureen Dowd demonstrated just how out of touch the MSM is with political reality in her column attacking Karl Rove. She cast him as a disgruntled nerd, avenging his Kennedy-era high school grievances against liberals by pandering aggressively to backward evangelicals in support of President Bush.
The truth? It’s much, much closer to [...]