I was asked if I could do another of these, so here it is. Rove's leaving and Cheney's changing his tune. Democracy Now did some real reporting on what's going on in Iraq and we had some argument on whether there should be a draft brought back or not. The White House tried to get away with Petraeus not testifying on Iraq and our soldiers' suicide rates are going up. Fox, the CIA, Diebold and others thought that no one would know they were messing with Wikipedia, and Melanie Morgan and Bill O'Reilly as usual look like they've long ago lost their minds. We've got some Worst Persons and more, and then we've got this. Rudy actually managing to one up himself with the drag queen outfits. Here's Rudy of the Jungle in his lion king outfit attacking welfare recipients.
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David Shuster gives his report on Karl Rove's announcement that he'll be leaving his job at the end of August.
Matthews asks if Rove is leaving his job to try to avoid testifying before Congress. Melanie Sloan and Joe Digenova and weigh in.
Keith discusses the reasons which were given about why Karl Rove is leaving now. Newsweek's Howard Fineman weighs in on why he's really leaving, what Karl Rove might be doing next and how he might be involved in the next Presidential race.
Keith speaks to former Nixon counsel John Dean about the end of the Bush Presidency and the Rove resignation and the Congressional investigations into Rove. They also discuss whether Bush's policies on terrorism and preemptive strikes will continue or not after Bush is gone.
Keith discusses Rove's history with Bush going back to his college days. Author of "Bush's Brain" James Moore weighs in.
Worst Person for August 13th. And the winner is....Bill O'Reilly. Runners up Rev. Gary Simons and Michael O'Hanlon.
Amy Goodman's report on Rove resigning in the face of subpoenas, the Sunni's accusing the Shiites of genocide in Iraq and that government falling apart, Al-Maliki calling for an emergency summit, the US raids in Sadr City, the chaos in Diwaniya and the War Czar saying that a draft is worth considering.
Chris Matthews discusses the issue of the draft with Mark Finelli an Iraq War veteren and John Bruhns from Americans Against Escalation in Iraq. Finelli actually says that we needed to go into Iraq to establish military bases there since the Saudi's were kicking us out.
Worst Person August 14th. And the winner is...John Gibson.
The LA Times reports that the Patraeus Report which was supposed to be delivered to Congress by him will instead be written by the White House. Craig Crawford weighs in.
Keith speaks with PJ Crowly about Gen. Petraeus' report and what the Bush report will stay instead and how the administration has been hiding behind Petraeus for political cover and to keep the occupation going in Iraq. Keith also reports that the Rumsfeld resignation was disclosed a day after he actually resigned.
Worst Person August 15th. And the winner is...Melanie Morgan.
News reports have come to light showing that the White House had no intentions of letting Gen. Petruaus and Ambassador Crocker deliver the Iraq progress report. They instead wanted to give them a closed door report and allow Condoleeza Rice and Robert Gates testify to Congress. Johnathon Alter weighs in.
Keith gives his report on the number of suicides that have increased since the tours of the troops have been extended and that the number of suicides that have increased since the tours of the troops have been extended and that the rate of suicide is at it's highest rate in 26 years. Brannon Friedman weighs in.
Worst Person August 16th. And the winner is....Bill O'Reilly.
Keith gives his report on how a computer scientist has developed a program called Wikipedia Scanner that can show who makes changes to articles there by tracing their IP address. Anyone from Diebold to the CIA to Exxon to Fox news has been editing entries they don't like there about themselves and others. Fox "News" reported the story and left themselves out of it. Kevin Poulsen weighs in.
FBI Director Robert Mueller's notes about the warrantless wiretap program differ from the testimony Gonzales gave before Congress. Michael Isikoff and Mark Green weigh in.
A video of Dick Cheney from 1994 has him contradicting himself about why we should or should not have gone into Iraq. Melanie Morgan proves once again that she's willing to say anything or attack anyone to defend this administration when the "panel" of Morgan, Craig Crawford and Naomi Wolf discuss the matter. Morgan tells Matthews that he's got a gleam in his eye while and just wants to attack Cheney and tells Wolf she'll look great in a burka.
Worst Person August 17th. And the winner is....Melanie Morgan...again!
Keith talks to The Nation's John Nichols about what might have caused Cheney to change his views from some of the earlier statements he's made on why the US should have never gone into Baghdad.
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And last but not least, here's Bill Moyers' take on the Rove resignation courtesy of PBS: