I sent the
Wall Street Journal feedback on their infamous
Karl Rove, Whistleblower op-ed. Chances are they won't put it up, and in any case I thought I'd share it.
If I knew a more forceful way to say "shame on you" I'd do it, but this was my best effort.
Subject:
Re: Karl Rove, Whistleblower
It would take Juvenal, Jonathan Swift, Mark Twain, and H. L. Mencken together to pen an
adequate response to "Karl Rove, Whistleblower". It is brazen, conscious mendacity. You
employees of the Wall Street Journal are educated, sophisticated men and women, and you know
perfectly, perfectly well that Karl Rove was not acting disinterestedly in the service of
his country whatever the precise nature of his role in the Plame leak. At the very best, he
was "playing hardball politics as it has always been played," in the words of an NBC News
piece I heard last night.
But "whistleblower"? That is a form of the Big Lie. That is speaking flattery to power. It
is toadyism so undisguised that it would make an Elizabethan courtier blush.
David Sewell