Plamegate Pussies

Our liberal media on why it deliberately provided cover for the White House on the Plame scandal.

Media Matters - Franken grills Dickerson on Time -Rove scandal: "Why can't you just say they're big liars?"

From Dickerson's February 8 appearance on The Al Franken Show:

FRANKEN: You were, as White House correspondent for Time magazine, privy to the fact that Matt Cooper had talked to Karl Rove, and that Karl Rove had outed Valerie Plame, not by name but by identity, to Matt Cooper. And tell me if I got this wrong -- that there were in subsequent articles you contributed to in one way or another in Time magazine that wrote about the controversy of Plamegate, there was things like quoting Scott McClellan saying the White House had nothing to do with this, that kind of thing, where you guys knew that he was not telling -- that what he was saying wasn't true. And that you allowed it to stand without saying, "We know this not to be true." Which, I understand why you would do that. But there are some people a little peeved about this.

DICKERSON: Yes, there are some people peeved about that. I think that's right: I think if you look at the articles, you know, when they were written, it was all very, very carefully written. And the reason you can't just come out and say, "They're big liars, they're big liars," is because you end up giving up a source. Now, people who hate Karl Rove and hate the president think, well, "Yes, damn it, you've got to give up your source." But, um, you know --

The "very carefully written" articles Dickerson referred to contained statements Dickerson and his colleagues knew to be false and misleading -- a fact that Dickerson has not contested.

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