5 of the top 10 NY Times stories from the past 2 weeks

[kittenpants]

are about Rove and one of the stories is about CostCo being the anti-WalMart! And this is over two weeks in which we've had a Supreme Court nominee & terrorist attacks in London. Yay, people are still paying attention! Links to some of the stories...

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/15/politics/15rove.html?ex=1137902400&en=e9e0549ceae3d95c&ei=5087&nl=ep&emc=ep&rd=hcmcp?p=0491Bk0491EG4_$Aq012000mfmNafmQw

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/24/opinion/24rich.html?ex=1137902400&en=15fff3677f4404ce&ei=5087&nl=ep&emc=ep&rd=hcmcp?p=0491Bd0491EG4_$Aq012000mfmNafmQw

costco piece - http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/17/business/yourmoney/17costco.html?ex=1137902400&en=884f5bd4ddc88acb&ei=5087&nl=ep&emc=ep&rd=hcmcp?p=0491Bh0491EG4_$Aq012000mfmNafmQw

[bryant69]

1. That's why bumping up the Nomination seemed so pathetic to me

I mean come on - there's only one way out of your current situation Bush - you are going to have to admit an error! I know the thought of admiting error makes you go a little crazy, but once you try it, it's not that bad.

Bryant
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[Mairead]

2. No, people aren't still paying attention: the DSM was the story

Rove was the first-order distraction. Roberts was the second-order distraction.

And it worked.

[kittenpants]

3. I don't think Rove is a distraction from the DSM.

It just reinforces the DSM because Rove was paying back Wilson for exposing the "fixed intel" of the yellow cake. That's actually mentioned in a lot of the NYTimes stories & helps tie the stories together IMHO.

[Mairead]

4. Then where's the press on the DSM? I don't see any, do you?

It's all about Rove, and people are congratulating themselves on not letting Roberts distract them.

It's like the spying trade: one plants a bug that is easy to find, a better bug that's quite hard to find, and finally one or more top-technology bugs that're made as hard to find as possible. The naive give up after finding the first bug, but the clever go on searching til they find the second bug. Then they congratulate themselves on not being fooled by that first bug, all unwitting that both those bugs were throwaways.

[kittenpants]

5. YES, I understand what you're saying, but what I'm saying is

that the stories are inseparable. The DSM is a written record by our allies that the admin fixed intel for the war. The Plame affair is anecdotal proof of it. The DSM doesn't necessarily need to be mentioned for people to hear the story that Plame was exposed as revenge for Wilson telling the truth about the yellow cake & Niger.
Don't tell me I'm "falling" for a distraction! A hell of a lot more people are interested in this story that leads to the same end--that the administration lied & to me that's good news, but maybe not to you.

[Mairead]

6. Okay, but I bet the practical outcome is that once the Rove thing

dies out or gets resolved or whatever happens, that will be the end of it; the DSM thing will have got lost in the shuffle, as intended. It'll be nice if I'm wrong, but I bet I'm not.