This is brief, but I haven't seen anyone else talking about it, so I wanted to get it out there.
Most of the action in the Rove/Plame/WMD scandal over the past few days has involved various members of the press playing gotcha with Bush and other Administration officials--trying to force them to either confirm previous statements which are now demonstrably untrue, to disavow them, or to make commitments to some kind fof standard under which The Untouchable Man could get his walking papers.
That's all fun. I hope it continues, and I expect it will, since even the craven sycophants known as the White House press corps seem to have awakened from their hibernation and remembered how good blood tastes straight from the severed limb.
What's missing thus far is below the fold.
But what I HAVEN'T seen--and could pay off a lot more in the long term for progressives and Democrats--is any effort to force the talking heads of the right-wing punditocracy to make similar commitments.
Why isn't anyone asking Tucker Carlson if Karl Rove should be fired if he leaked classified information or confirmed it? Or Bill O'Reilly? Or Rush Limbaugh? This is a nightmare for them--to the man in the street, the leak is obviously an act of treason that undercuts the strongest supposed area of Republican dominance: defense. And the White House is obviously lying about it.
We can train-wreck the personal credibility of the talking heads that carry out the bidding of the likes of Karl Rove by forcing them to take a position, and they can't hide like the Chimp can. They're on talk programs. They have to talk. If asked point-blank, "Yes or no, should someone who leaks information that endangers American intelligence agents and operations be allowed to maintain a prominent position in the Executive Branch?", they're going to do the shimmy dance and, before the very eyes of the viewing public, dry up into the shriveled and soulless scum they really are.
Please recommend, to get the concept out. This egregious act and coverup is a righteous weapon with which to smite the corrupt conservative conspiracy. Let's use it to take down all who dare defend or excuse it, or who, by their silence, condone it.