Double Super Secret Background: Karl Rove Scandal

Oh, mate, is this insane or what? Today on Democracy Now, Ole' Joe Wilson was talking with his - and my - favorite journalist, Amy Goodman:

AMY GOODMAN: The conversation that Robert Novak had with a friend of yours, it has been talked about before, but I think it's important to bring out again. You had also raised it on our show, as well as others, Joe Wilson. Can you talk about that meeting on the street?

JOSEPH WILSON: Sure. Well, several days before he wrote his article, Novak was walking down the streets of Washington, D.C., and somebody came up and said hello to him and engaged him in a conversation. Now, that happens to people who are sort of familiar figures who you see on television a lot. I'm sure, Amy, it happens to you. People come up and say, 'Hey, you're Bob Novak. Can we have' -- I suppose people don't call you Bob Novak, but people come up and say, hi, you're so and so, and let's – and strike up a conversation. That's what happened. And during the course of the conversation, this stranger raised, or the subject of Niger and the op-ed came up, and Novak said bluntly to him, 'Wilson is an asshole,' although I had never met Novak before, ‘and his wife works for the C.I.A.’ Well, it turns out the stranger to Novak was somebody that I knew. And he walked right over to my office. He said, I don't know what you wife does, I have never met your wife, but here is what Novak is saying on the streets. This was several days before his article appeared.

Oh SNAP! That's a small world!

Here's the whole interview.

This is a great post on the Daily Kos, detailing some of the more intricate nuances of the whole Rove / Plame / Public Distortion affair. Can you imagine if, say, NASA employed the same tactics as these assholes? Just saying something over and over until people think its true, then when its proven not to be, saying it is anyway and moving on to the next project. No, instead they put more cameras on the damn thing and are now fixing stuff that's probably not even broken -- because people are asking questions. And this is only, what, 7 people up there? And the commander-in-chief of those hundreds of thousands of military folk can't even acknowledge he's got a lying asshole in his whitehouse.