Rove: Destroy Cooper Now!!!
I've previously detailed the Waiver Game Rove was playing with Cooper (& probably Miller also) here and here.
Cooper misread Rove's public spin of having waived confidentiality to Rove's certain shock and anger. Now Cooper must pay.
The Battlecry has been sounded against Cooper with this bizarre piece in the NRO entitled Lawyer: Cooper "Burned" Karl Rove
It's no surprise that Byron Yorks steps up to do Rove's dirty work and it's no surprise that Drudge, another Rove toady, ran the battlecry headline on the top of his site today.
Make no mistake, the story is the headline - Cooper "Burned" Rove. The headline gives one the gut reaction that Cooper Burned Rove by revealing him as one of the Plame leakers. That's the message Rove is really sending. The cover story that Rove's despicable attorney Luskin gives in the body of the York's piece is laughable and, no doubt, pure feint. Rove wants the headline Cooper "Burned" Rove--- a headline meant to cut off Cooper from all sources or other right-wing largesse. A headline meant to warn others that there are repercussions to pay for going sideways on Rove. A headline that points Rove's media toadies to take up arms in a new crusade; one that pits Cooper as villain.
Rove's got Cooper in a Catch-22. If Cooper fights back, he becomes a participant in an open and ugly dispute with his own source. He no longer wears the cap of objective journalist but becomes an even bigger story than he already is. One certain to be remembered (and to be always villainized by the right) for this battle with their beloved icon every time someone reads a future piece with his byline.
If he doesn't respond and attempts to retain the mantle of a dispassionate journalist, Rove gets to falsely spin a story which at its heart has Cooper as a dishonest person. Cooper's credibility and integrity will be publicly smeared and, without opposition, the media will come to accept this as conventional wisdom.
Cooper misread Rove's public spin of having waived confidentiality to Rove's certain shock and anger. Now Cooper must pay.
The Battlecry has been sounded against Cooper with this bizarre piece in the NRO entitled Lawyer: Cooper "Burned" Karl Rove
It's no surprise that Byron Yorks steps up to do Rove's dirty work and it's no surprise that Drudge, another Rove toady, ran the battlecry headline on the top of his site today.
Make no mistake, the story is the headline - Cooper "Burned" Rove. The headline gives one the gut reaction that Cooper Burned Rove by revealing him as one of the Plame leakers. That's the message Rove is really sending. The cover story that Rove's despicable attorney Luskin gives in the body of the York's piece is laughable and, no doubt, pure feint. Rove wants the headline Cooper "Burned" Rove--- a headline meant to cut off Cooper from all sources or other right-wing largesse. A headline meant to warn others that there are repercussions to pay for going sideways on Rove. A headline that points Rove's media toadies to take up arms in a new crusade; one that pits Cooper as villain.
Rove's got Cooper in a Catch-22. If Cooper fights back, he becomes a participant in an open and ugly dispute with his own source. He no longer wears the cap of objective journalist but becomes an even bigger story than he already is. One certain to be remembered (and to be always villainized by the right) for this battle with their beloved icon every time someone reads a future piece with his byline.
If he doesn't respond and attempts to retain the mantle of a dispassionate journalist, Rove gets to falsely spin a story which at its heart has Cooper as a dishonest person. Cooper's credibility and integrity will be publicly smeared and, without opposition, the media will come to accept this as conventional wisdom.
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