FDL on Degrees of Feloniousness: Cheney and Scooter Go To Court

[Coexist]

I have nothing intelligent to add to this analogy. It is perfect.

According to GOP-pushed media logic, someone who steals three of your hubcaps, strips your car down of all the valuable parts, take the license plate and steals your registration should not be charged for all of those crimes because someone else took the first hubcap a little earlier in the day.

Um…yeah. Try again. You lie repeatedly to a federal investigator, you pay the penalty, and no amount of after-the-fact ass-covering obfuscation gets around the fact that Libby lied, repeatedly. If he didn’t need to do so because he and those around did nothing wrong, then why did he lie on multiple occasions? And why did a federal grand jury find it troubling enough to indict him on five felony counts for doing so?

It seems to me that someone is pushing awfully hard to keep Dick Cheney and Judy Miller and all the rest of Scooter’s peeps from having to testify publicly under oath.

(H/T to a smart person who came up with the hubcap analogy — I think it’s a great way to explain something that ought to be obvious to people who are being deliberately obtuse while trying to cover their complicit media asses. I’m talking to you Fred Hiatt and Bill Keller.)

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[Missy Vixen]

1. Oh, my GOD, look over here!

But Clinton got a blow job! We can't distract the Bush administration with this! It's wartime, and he is the Decider! AaAaaaaaaa! Scooter Libby is being persecuted by an out of control partisan prosecutor! We're spending too much money on this investigation! Shiny things that make noise when we play with them! AaaAAAAAAAAAA!

I'm exhausted. I think I need to lie down for a few minutes.

In the meantime, it's a joy to read firedoglake.

Julie

[Coexist]

2. lol

I felt your pain!

[Missy Vixen]

3. Thank you

And the agony goes on and on and on.

Remember, it's only a crime if a Democrat does it.

Julie