Thursday, July 14, 2005
Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha
America now knows that Rove told a reporter that former ambassador Wilson, an official in the Clinton administration, was sent to Niger to investigate reports that Iraq had tried to obtain uranium for nuclear weapons -- and on the recommendation of his wife, who worked for the CIA. After Wilson wrote an op-ed for The New York Times about his mission, Rove questioned his credibility.
Rush: Let me just tell you who Matt Cooper is married to just so we can connect all the dots here. Matt Cooper is married to Mandy Grunwald, and Mandy Grunwald is one of these high ranking Democratic Party operatives, and she currently is on Hillary's staff.
A popularity contest between the president and the press, or a popularity contest between Karl Rove and the press, the press is going to lose every time -- and this is also, by the way, Michael Goodwin's point, that no matter what the press does here, they're going to lose.
"It's a war the media can't win and shouldn't wage," he says. "The intense grilling that White House reporters inflicted on Scott McClellan Monday was no ordinary give-and-take. It was a hostile hectoring that revealed much of the mainstream press for what it's become: the opposition party.
Debra Saunders: That Times editors saw the Quran story as top-of-the-page material is a sign of pure hysteria. Torture at Abu Ghraib was front-page news; a damp Quran is not.
Here’s an example of how tone-deaf the Times has become: Its magazine wanted a photographer to depict the abuse of prisoners at Iraqi facilities and Gitmo, so the editors hired Andres Serrano, the photographer who angered America with his photograph of a crucifix in urine.
Call the Quran and Rove stories examples of a new trend: We-told-you-so journalism. Gotcha journalism has a new name: Gotcha this time. No, gotcha this time. No, really, gotcha this time.
If a new story reinforces an old story that the public didn’t care about before, it lands on page one.
Guaranteed.
America now knows that Rove told a reporter that former ambassador Wilson, an official in the Clinton administration, was sent to Niger to investigate reports that Iraq had tried to obtain uranium for nuclear weapons -- and on the recommendation of his wife, who worked for the CIA. After Wilson wrote an op-ed for The New York Times about his mission, Rove questioned his credibility.
Rush: Let me just tell you who Matt Cooper is married to just so we can connect all the dots here. Matt Cooper is married to Mandy Grunwald, and Mandy Grunwald is one of these high ranking Democratic Party operatives, and she currently is on Hillary's staff.
A popularity contest between the president and the press, or a popularity contest between Karl Rove and the press, the press is going to lose every time -- and this is also, by the way, Michael Goodwin's point, that no matter what the press does here, they're going to lose.
"It's a war the media can't win and shouldn't wage," he says. "The intense grilling that White House reporters inflicted on Scott McClellan Monday was no ordinary give-and-take. It was a hostile hectoring that revealed much of the mainstream press for what it's become: the opposition party.
Debra Saunders: That Times editors saw the Quran story as top-of-the-page material is a sign of pure hysteria. Torture at Abu Ghraib was front-page news; a damp Quran is not.
Here’s an example of how tone-deaf the Times has become: Its magazine wanted a photographer to depict the abuse of prisoners at Iraqi facilities and Gitmo, so the editors hired Andres Serrano, the photographer who angered America with his photograph of a crucifix in urine.
Call the Quran and Rove stories examples of a new trend: We-told-you-so journalism. Gotcha journalism has a new name: Gotcha this time. No, gotcha this time. No, really, gotcha this time.
If a new story reinforces an old story that the public didn’t care about before, it lands on page one.
Guaranteed.
