Wingnuts ♥ Rove

Republican politicians have their talking points, and the White House is still decidedly mum on the Wilson-Plame affair.

But the wingnut apologists, as Dadahead pointed out below, are performing mind-numbing rhetorical gymnastics in support of Rove. The Malkins have a roundup.

I'd like to give more attention to John Podhoretz's hackiness:

This surely qualifies as one of the "hey, big whoop" stories of all time. And I am not saying this because I am some partisan gunslinger. Simple fairness says that an official called by a journalist who volunteers a piece of gossip and then responds, "I heard that too," is not retailing a piece of incendiary information intended to destroy lives and place CIA assets in harm's way.

J.Po. thinks that journalists call up Rove to gossip. How quaint. "I heard John McCain fathered an illegitimate black child," asked Unknown Republican Push-Pollster.

"I heard that too," Rove said.

That's it. And forget for the moment that when Novak contacted the CIA to verify Valerie Wilson's identity as the covert agent Valerie Plame, they requested that her name not be published.

So, under the guise of "simple fairness", no one at NRO should ever type the following sentence: "And I am not saying this because I am some partisan gunslinger."

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