CNN Claims Rove Is Victim of "Smear Campaign"

This is actually the most incredible thing I've yet to see in the ongoing Rove-Plame leak story. CNN's anchorperson Kyra Philips actually tried to make viewers feel bad for Rove, saying that there's "definitely a major smear campaign going on" against him. First of all, there is no "smear": we now factually know Rove was involved in compromising America's national security. But secondly, and even more ridiculously, CNN is actually trying to make viewers feel bad for Rove, even though he is the godfather of the modern-day political smear.

What's really going on here is fear: reporters are deathly afraid of challenging the White House, even in the face of evidence that top Bush operatives compromised America's security to grind a political axe.

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