Just to follow up on a post from earlier this week, I continue to be amazed at the lack of media interest in the controversy surrounding Joseph Wilson, the outing of his CIA agent wife, and the White House.
As I mentioned on Tuesday, Wilson believes that White House political svengali Karl Rove was responsible for leaking his wife’s name to conservative newspaper columnist Bob Novak, which not incidentally, is a felony.
“At the end of the day, it’s of keen interest to me to see whether or not we can get Karl Rove frog-marched out of the White House in handcuffs,” Wilson said last weekend. “And trust me, when I use that name, I measure my words.”
Now, I understand that political reporters are busy. There’s a lot going on. If teams of investigative journalists don’t feel like pursuing this right now, fine.
But I can’t help but marvel at the fact that the media isn’t at least reporting on the accusation itself. Forget digging to see if Wilson’s right; that’d be nice, but I don’t want to ask for the moon here.
I mean a straight-up news story that tells the public that a former U.S. ambassador has accused the president’s senior political advisor of leaking classified information to a conservative ally in the press. That’s all I want. It’s a factual description of what happened.
So far, the combined number of articles/stories about this simple but important accusation in the Washington Post, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, USA Today, Philadelphia Inquirer, Los Angeles Times, Houston Chronicle, Miami Herald, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Cleveland Plain-Dealer, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, CBS, and PBS?
Zero.
Let’s all say it together — What liberal media?