emptywheel‘s post on The Next Hurrah, Debunking the Runaway Prosecutor Claims, points up one of the receurrent media problems we’ve faced over the Bush years. As she points out, the revelation that Richard Armitage was Robert Novak’s source has nothing to do with Patrick Fitzgerald’s investigation. It certainly doesn’t exonerate Cheney, or Rove, or Libby who were hot on the case in outing Valerie Plame. But, they got that claim in the Press, runaway prosecutor. They got William Kristol saying it on T.V. Now it’s silence. So only the already converted read the truth. The "spin" made the papers, then came silence.
BushCo has done this over and over. Get something ridiculous on the news, then never mention it again, or never acknowledge the misinformation. We rale about it for months, but the retorts are never heard, and the misinformation becomes embedded. The biggest version is the Administration’s connecting 911, Terrorism, and the War in Iraq. Those connections have been known to be absolutely wrong for literally years, but they are still part of every speech – so strong these misinformation bonds.
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