{"id":167,"date":"2003-10-01T10:14:36","date_gmt":"2003-10-01T14:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=167"},"modified":"2003-10-01T10:14:36","modified_gmt":"2003-10-01T14:14:36","slug":"what-is-so-funny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=167","title":{"rendered":"What is so funny?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Timothy Noah at Slate writes<\/a> that calling for a reinstatement of the independent counsel statute into the Valerie Plame affair would be a mistake.<\/p>\n

Sam Smith at Progressive Review tells everyone to ‘calm down’<\/a> and concentrate on the more important matter of the lies told by the Bush administration in order to gather support for the pre-emptive strike on Iraq.<\/p>\n

I’m still seeing last night’s news feed and the impudent George smirkingly calling for the reporters to divulge their sources. <\/p>\n

Talk Left <\/a>on whether Novak can be ordered to do just that.<\/p>\n

Jack Shafer at Slate on how anonymous sources tie reporters in knots.<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n

Instead of George calling for the ruin of yet another professional why isn’t he demanding the person in his administration responsible for this ‘leak’ to come forward?<\/p>\n

And when he will wipe that smirk off his face? <\/p>\n

Addendum<\/b>: Yesterday, fantastic planet<\/a> linked to Atrios<\/a> who linked to this<\/a> Guardian audio report in which Julian Borger says reporters are privately naming Rove as the source. <\/p>\n

Josh Marshall on ‘classified information’<\/a> strategy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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