from Keith Olbermann's show, in which he bitch-slaps the AP for their lousy reporting on Kerry supposedly outing a CIA agent.
He's the only corporate media person on television that I have any respect for...and he's magnificent when he and Craig Crawford, MSNBC political consultant, get together.
For example,
OLBERMANN: Exactly. But how on earth did it get eight paragraphs on the Associated Press and in every—nearly every newspaper in America, without so much as a denial from either Kerry or Lugar? It‘s sort of like the—what the dog didn‘t do in the night here. Where‘s their response?
CRAWFORD: Hey, everyone was hands-off after this. It seems like a rare stumble, as you mentioned, from Associated Press, which is so reliable so much of the time. But obviously, somewhere along the line, that reporter—we need some more autopsy, perhaps, on what happened. But somebody has put the word out that this was not supposed to be revealed.
It‘s all part of the culture of secrecy in Washington. There‘s almost an assumption that everything‘s secret until proven otherwise.
OLBERMANN: But this case, in which a not-exposed CIA agent kind of got more attention than what remains of the story from last year, the actually exposed CIA agent Valerie Plame, why is that?
CRAWFORD: I think there was some eagerness on the side of administration backers because of the Valerie Plame story. And I believe the grand jury is still underway, investigating that leak. Some inclination with administration backers to seize on an example of a Democrat revealing the identity of a potential cover (UNINTELLIGIBLE) cover story.
And so I think, you know, it played into partisan hands, and it got a little more action than it might have otherwise, because it seemed like a good partisan football.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7489704/
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