One of the small satisfactions of the Libby trial has been getting certain things that we all already knew confirmed by various former White House officials.
Q & A of Ari Fleischer's testimony follows.
The reason hearing all this is only a small satisfaction is because the real satisfaction would be if the media stopped accepting these punts -- if, in fact, they stopped playing this game altogether.
Does anyone in the press corps -- not to mention the planet -- not know that Tony Snow is still up there "punting," day in and day out? Why, then, do they still play the game? Why don't they call the punting what we all know it is: deliberate deception -- even...gasp...lying?
The media's willingness to take punt after punt, and allow the administration to "control" its "message," is part of what got us into this historically disastrous debacle, and what's still allowing Bush to punt this entire war down to the next president.
It would be a lot harder for the administration to play games with the lives of other people's children if the press refused to play along.
Like, DUH! The "press" owes us big time for their dereliction of duty. They better start payin' up. It's easy - just start telling the truth about this administration. When their journalism results in film at 11 of Bush in tar and feathers being ridden out of town on a rail, well, that'll be a good start on payback.
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