Friday, October 28, 2005

Libby Indictimified!
Rove not! (Yet?)

Thoughts:

  • I love that CNN's "Libby Indicted" graphic is built around the picture of Libby on crutches. Not so scooty now, are you, Lewis?
  • It's also amusing that CNN was "now able to announce" Libby's resignation approximately ten minutes after John King announced, on CNN, that... Libby had resigned. "Situation Room," my ass.
  • There's a touch of anticlimax ("We waited twenty-four months for this?").
  • Rove's (and Cheney's, I suppose) non-indictment has got to be a big disappointment for those who were hoping to use this against the White House out in the red states. It's going to be a lot easier for the White House to separate itself from Scooter "Who?" Libby than it would have been for the White House to separate itself from Karl "The Architect" Rove. Damn you, Patrick Fitzgerald!
  • The last paragraph of the indictment press release: "The public is reminded that an indictment contains only charges and is not evidence of guilt. The defendant is presumed innocent and is entitled to a fair trial at which the government has the burden of proving guilt beyond a reasonable doubt." Pshaw.

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