{"id":5593,"date":"2005-10-20T15:07:36","date_gmt":"2005-10-20T19:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=5593"},"modified":"2005-10-20T15:07:36","modified_gmt":"2005-10-20T19:07:36","slug":"i-hope-im-not-the-only-one-who-can-relate-to-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/i-hope-im-not-the-only-one-who-can-relate-to-this\/","title":{"rendered":"I hope I’m not the only one who can relate to this"},"content":{"rendered":"

William Rivers Pitt wrote a very funny item<\/a> for Truthout that I could really relate to. I hope I’m not the only one.<\/p>\n

8:12 am – Wake, sling blankets aside, startling cat into sudden flight.<\/p>\n

8:13 am – Pull up New York Times web site, scan for news of Fitzgerald indictment.<\/p>\n

8:14 am – Thump head repeatedly on desk, further confusing already-rattled cat.<\/p>\n

8:17 am – Make coffee, check CNN in case something was missed in walk from office to kitchen.<\/p>\n

8:22 am – Down coffee in single gulp, remember that the voices of CNN talking heads are like fingernails across the chalkboard of my soul, change channel.<\/p>\n

10:23 am – Hit refresh on Times web site. Sigh.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Pitt describes the rest of the day — it’s called “Diary of a Plamegate Junkie<\/a>” — which follows along this tack. Other than waking up way earlier that Pitt, I found myself nodding most of the way through.<\/p>\n

And speaking of Plame, here’s a handful of items from the past few hours:
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\n* The Today Show reported<\/a> that Rove told Libby that he learned about Plame from columnist Bob Novak, while Libby learned about her from Tim Russert. Neither claim makes a lot of sense.<\/p>\n

* Pat Buchanan, while discounting much of the scandal, believes<\/a> “there are multiple indictments coming, for lying to investigators, perjury, obstruction of justice, and disclosure of national security secrets for political purposes. And maybe conspiracy.”<\/p>\n

* National Journal’s Chuck Todd said<\/a> the leaks to the AP<\/a> and the WaPo<\/a> last night about Rove pointing the finger at Libby almost certainly had to come directly from Rove.<\/p>\n

* Judd at Think Progress noticed<\/a> that all the leaking from the White House would appear to conflict with the official Bush gang line, that they’re not going to comment while the investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n

* Buzz Flash has a copy of an email<\/a> that’s making the rounds on Capitol Hill today, which includes all kinds of speculation and rumors. (For the record, I’m not inclined to believe this email, but it’s being widely distributed so I thought readers might want to be aware of it)<\/p>\n

* Josh has a good post<\/a> explaining that yesterday’s New York Daily News scoop<\/a> about Bush being mad at Rove two years ago being a leak intended to made Bush look better<\/i>, once again proving that top presidential aides aren’t very smart.<\/p>\n

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to go hit “refresh” on a bunch of websites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

William Rivers Pitt wrote a very funny item for Truthout that I could really relate to. I hope I’m not the only one. 8:12 am – Wake, sling blankets aside, startling cat into sudden flight. 8:13 am – Pull up New York Times web site, scan for news of Fitzgerald indictment. 8:14 am – Thump […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}