It’s odd that a search of the Washington Post website for "libby" turns up, on the first page of search results: recent campaign articles by Libby Quaid and Libby Copeland; Dave Barry’s humor column which mentions Scooter; Dana Milbank’s inscrutable "Potomac Man" drivel with an incomprehensible reference to Scooter and human sacrifice; and the Hannah Montana contest controversy over tickets awarded by the Club Libby Liu store in Dallas (the little girl who lied in her essay about her father dying in Iraq is not getting to go to the concert after all; justice prevails!)
Do you think that’s odd? I do.
Not a single year-end retrospective article in the Washington Post mentions Scooter’s trial, unless you count the "Most Popular Opinions" article on 12/29, which refers in passing to
" columns Froomkin wrote about the legal tribulations of vice presidential adviser I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby."
I mean, that trial DID happen this year, right? And the "tribulations" included four felony convictions. And those convictions still stand and are not being appealed.
It’s as if Bush’s commutation made it all go away. From everywhere.
Update: No year-end mention in the New York Times, either.
Another Update: Or the Los Angeles Times.
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Teddy!
Scooter scooted. Off scott free.
Ooh, Zedders!
We remember, Irving.
Teddy! Happy New Year and thanks for not letting Libby scoot out of the limelight for his heinous crimes against America.
The Villagers don’t want to focus on the negative. So they don’t.
If a scooter falls and no one heard it…. did it happen?
What is the sound of Scooter clapping?
Just spotted Giuliana in a diner talking up folks in the next booth.
Well, poor Scooter was persecuted unfairly. It’s not like he did anything really wrong, she wasn’t really covert, she sent her husband on a fishing expedition, and he’s a good family guy with a wife and kids.
That’s about all the sarcasm I can stand in one post. Did I forget any of the rationalizations?
TSF, you really ought to know better! Serious people never talk about crime. It’s such a downer!
Us yokels here in fly-over-land only need to know the important stuff. You know, like “Will Jenna have a WH
shotgunwedding?”, or “How f-a-b-u-l-o-u-s Laura Belle looked at the WH Xmas party in that burlap sack.”Get serious, dude! The MSM knows what’s best for us.
I just put this on the ticker:
Oh, that Libby trial.
Just some partisan gun-slinging.
Nothing to look at.
Move along.
No, that pretty well covered it.
If you don’t do the time it’s almost like treason in a time of war never happened.
I wonder if those searches do the same thing as a Google search?
The more hits, the higher the ranking, the closer to the front it goes?
But to act like it never happened seems so transparently obvious. Maybe the WaPo figures calling Scooter’s trial “tribulations” will play with some folks, but not here at the Lake.
How many people did Scoots talk with about Mrs. Wilson before he lied about it to the FBI and in 2 Grand Jury sessions?
Nine.
Nothing.To.See.Here…
Hi Teddy!
Hiya, TSF!
How about we all agree that the mainstream newspapers “of record” are now totally worthless complete fucking assholes who have abdicated their proper role in a constitutional republic, and aren’t even fit for lining a bird cage or wrapping rotten scrod?
Apparently Treason is sooo 1940’s.
It’s not like nuclear proliferation is a hot-button topic anyways.
Just keep shopping.
Disapointing 4th quarter retail sales.
Now *that’s* news.
The newspaper website searches seem to work backwards chronologically, Busted. I stopped when I got to the early December stories about Irv dropping his appeal, followed the next day by Dubya’s December pardons, which omitted Scooter.
Didn’t he dress up in a cute costume on halloween?
Didn’t he dress up in a cute costume on halloween?
*clearing throat* i believe the term currently being used is Fall Family Festival – halloween is just so so.. . pagan sounding (/snark)
Only if you are a Repug….. if you are a Democrat… even breathing could be considered treason…
Hi Mr Teddy.
Only if you are a Repug….. if you are a Democrat… even breathing could be considered treason…
is why boosh has only pre-screened R folks around when speechifying
I’m just glad I’m not the poor asshole who has to mop up all the audience dribble when he’s done talking.
Slightly OT. Below is what I assume is the NYT’s canned response to viewers’ criticism of its decision to add William “Bloody” Kristol to its OpEd page:
Let me get this straight. The Times considers as “news” its own hiring of Bill Kristol. That’s like hiring Paris Hilton to opine about modern celebrity. That Mr. Kristol’s views are consistently factually wrong? Not important. That his claim to represent an important constituency of silent Americans is auto erotic? Irrelevant.
The suits at the Times picked Kristol to enrage its traditional readership into reading more of a “news source” that has increasingly deserted them. Yea, that makes sense, uh huh. Murdoch did buy two papers for the price of one and the Times doesn’t even know it.
How about a new year’s round of applause for all of us for being the first people this year to notice that the MSM is not wearing clothes…again?
Ta-da! Hip, hip, hooray! Clap, clap, clap!
And Teddy, that WaPo sure looks hot in the nude!
Yes. Thanks Teddy. It seems so long ago, yet it was this year and well…crickets.
The bamboozlement continues and Impeachment is off the table. Thanks Nancy. Thanks.
Go Edwards. We need real change.
Happy New Year and all that Jazz!
Put it on! PUT IT ON!
The NYT has chosen well! What works for Fox should work for them. “Fair and Balanced” is the new MSM watchword.
Shorter NYT: “Yup, now we got Sane and Insane. Jest lak Rupert.”
Oh Teddy.
Scooter is so yesterday.
LOL!
You know, he was the highest-ranking White House official ever to be indicted.
Ever.
But Jamie Lynn Spears is pregnant!
brain bleach in 55 gal drums at every entrance and exit for those in need of it after seeing that nekkid msm standing in that harsh sunlight
Priorities, sweetie.
Bright shiny thong! ;-)
Translation:
Jamie Lynn is cuter than Scooter.
LOL!!
LL, that’s what started the trouble. i know the thong police will soon outlaw those sinful thongs.
The thought of Kristol nekkid is more than I can stand. Pass the bleach, please.
Just hate going to bed smelling brain bleach fumes….
I think that’s called damning with faint praise.
707.
That must be the bablefish translation. It’s accuracy is beyond reproach.
Miss Cooter is cuter than Scooter?!
I spent Christmas Eve puking my guts out. I would like to go more than a week before doing so again, thank you.
I suppose a year from now, though, Irv will again be in the news: it’ll be full pardon time.
Funny we were always reminded of the ‘Clinton scandals’. I never hear the media refer to the scandal plagued Bush Administration, even though it is chock full of criminals, past and present.
-G
i believe a president is precluded from pardoning while being impeached. Another reason to set that table properly, nancy.
IOKIYAR
He’ll be an editor at the NYTimes.
-G
Since it’s obvious that the media will cooperate by keeping the heat off, I call that a sure thing.
practically pre-911
After all of the trials and tribs these past years you would think that I could remember the answer to the following question. Can The Criminals be tried after they leave office?
Dick Cheney controls the MSM, right?
where’s CTuttle?
Scooter changed everything.
Crying in my beer… 8-(
In mourning.
Drinking and/or crying?
weren’t the clinton scandals pre-911?
Shrub will surely issue massive, overarching pardons to each and every minion, as Poppy did for the Iran-Contrans, just as he scoots out the Oval Office door.
I seriously doubt that. They just have the same evil overlord (Big Corporate Buckage).
CT, I watched most of the game in your honor — sorry your guys didn’t do so well :-(
ding – i wish those talking heads could remember this. they are soooo easily confused
At least he can’t keep us from interpreting it as a confession.
Now I’m sobbing profusely… 8-(
Very interesting and telling report, Teddy. The MSM has great determination. You’ve got to give them that. They are truly determined to to keep everyone in the dark or lie to them. My mom is here and she wants to watch the news. Football scores she hates. I put on CNN and i am about to vomit from the massive bullshit I just heard in five minutes of Anderson Cooper. Its a year end news summary. No Libby, yet. I’m not going to hold my breath. Its not going to be there. The whole show is right wing propaganda and/or superfluous fluff. Barry Bonds scandal. No Bush scandals – No Libby. Marion Jones. US adversaries are Hugo, North Korea and iran. Bush kept us safe. NBA ref cheated. Toobin says the sports world was ugly this year. Sub prime. Paris. Brittany.
Crying in my beer… 8-(
ok, you beat me to it, ’cause i was gonna say:
“As your attorney, I advise you to begin drinking heavily.”
Not if Bush tosses out pardons like confetti. Which I assume he will. Blanket pardons for everyone!
it only counts if you’re a republican.
Time for whiskey. Jameson.
the clinton scandals are the only exception to the pre-911 rule. after all, it was a blow job – why, my goodness that is almost (whispering) gay sex.
707, suz
I’ll stick with my heavily diluted MGD’s…
Suzanne,
Now I’m falling down laughing!
really sorry, dude.
And good night to the rest of youse.
Time for whiskey. Jameson.
I’ll take Bushmills, thanks…
Snarkassandra dresses in her polar bear swim suit in honor of the holiday, climbs to the top of the icy mod tower, and prepares to dive. She first looks down to make sure that the lake is still liquid and not a solid piece of ice and then she takes three bounces, up up, double back flip, and smooth entry into the lake. She swims to the side and comes up just long enough to do a major blogwhore (4 new posts in the last 3 days!!!!!!!) while she wraps herself in the biggest fluffiest towel she can find.
She waves goodbye to her adoring fans and grabs her other clothes and runs back to the clubhouse where she can warm up.
Good night!
Oh, Madmommy – wrt to earlier conversations – the article in the FDL news ticker about the Bhutto family is worth reading.
g’nite jayt
G’night all, duty calls in the AM. Teddy, I hope Irv pops up in the news sometime — but I won’t hold my breath! *g*
g’nite Miss SK!
I’ve taken to Highland Park in my old age…
standing on chair clapping.. 10!
Happy New Year, LL, and goodnite!
g’nite LL
Great dive! Good night, Cassie.
Snarky, nice dive there! ;-)
Bet you’re glad you didn’t decide to paddle an outrigger through the Panama Canal to get to the game :0)
What about himself?
Is THAT why it was such a big deal?!?!?!?!?!?
Aloha, Jay! I was hoping for a much better game… At least they still cashed in with a BCS consolation fees, which will be the single largest payout in Hawaii’s history…
Diluted with whiskey, I hope.
HNY to you as well Teddy — mwah! And good night Suz!
*poof*
and it is fun!
Beautiful exit, Cassie!
Bonne nuit!
Brittany can come back. She’s Brittany. Brittany’s sister is expecting a baby. Anna Nicole Smith. US senators know who Paris Hilton is. My Space and You tube are mainstream – Get a sense of where any trend is going. The worst of it – Rosie. Rosie hits Donald – Donald hits back. The tasered guy from John Kerry speech. Alec Baldwin grilling his daughter. Ellen is upset about a dog. Rachel Ray loves America. BAd dancing on Dancing with Stars. Ben Ferguson Puke says you can lose the presidential race but they’ll give you a nice consolation prize, re: Al Gore’s Nobel Prize. I’m turning it off.
I think it’s more jealousy. Clinton didn’t have to pay for it.
Dang, I have to go back to work tomorrow. Guess I should attempt to accomplish something useful tonight, like laundry.
BTW, went to see National Treasure II last night. It’s a very silly movie and was perfect for my mood. It has nothing to do with reality or history, but it’s quite entertaining.
Thank you for fighting them there, so I don’t have to fight them here.
well, in all seriousness, it was not missionary position (dutifully done in the dark while wearing jammies) and it was not sex for the purposes of procreation. therefore, to the fundy r’s, it is sinful and must be prayed away.
It is so awful — I turned it off in 2006. Nothing left for me but Keith.
That’s something I really don’t want to think about. As far as I know, the only thing a president cannot issue a pardon for is impeachment. He may be able to pardon himself. God help us if that’s true.
Exactly correct. Rove’s spin is their spin. He’s still out there, or here. I predict there will be another missing blonde woman by next weekend. We can’t get too serious about who should be president or actually might be guilty of war crimes or how our tax dollars are really being spent, right?
I think it’s more jealousy. Clinton didn’t have to pay for it.
You’re kidding, I hope. He paid for it. He’s said he suspected he was going to get caught before he began the affair, which he should’ve known would be a magnet for the hate machine already deployed against him. And the ridiculous Whitewater investigation cost you and me and the rest of America $60,000,000.
The whole thing was overblown, but he should’ve known better, or found somebody more discreet.
I expect a Nexus of Politics and Terror event — oh, maybe tomorrow?
Bill Clinton’s made more money since that blowjob than he ever dreamed of. He didn’t pay a price at all — and he might just get to be First Laddie.
I never watch Anderson Smoocher. Its so craptastic its scary. Really f**king scary how stupid it is. Honest to God I’m scared. Can you imagine those bastards superimposing that creep Ben Ferguson over Al Gore and slamming the Nobel Peace Prize? Damn it all. F**king Rethuglican ass kissing, ass covering Whores.
By paying for it I was referring more to the “hiring” of a professional, rather than paying the consequences of his decisions.
I was going to say except for public humiliation – but he might not be capable of feeling humiliated.
Unless the event is in Iowa…. IMHO most people blow off the terra scares…
It’s the advertising, stupid. Programmers are supposed to deliver the demographic that the advertisers want, not deliver the programming thst the public wants or needs. And the advertisers who have the deep pockets that can afford TV ads are, to a man, big corporations.
So….news that points out what they are doing is not going to be looked upon kindly by those who are footing the bill.
Oh, I agree we’ve gotten nonchalant about the scares, but if TradMed can go wall-to-wall about something other than picking a Preznit, they will.
What color level are we at now, anyway? Chartreuse? Melon?
Puce
OT: Agonist just officially endorsed Edwards.
http://agonist.org/sean_paul_k…..ure_is_now
puce.
Teddy! you beat me!
What’s Brittany’s favorite color?
Late Nite FDL: Whither Irv?
Irv, withered
Good evening dear friends.
I mean Britney.
Evening, Betsy!
powdery white
You will never get the gossip right until you learn to spell. It is Britney, not Brittany. /s
That wacked-out mom of hers can’t even spell.
Something tacky. That poor girl is a train wreck, bless her heart.
pun! tex!
hey Alicia. You’re on early!
Remembering something Thom Hartmann said a long while ago, lots of the big advertisers are buying ads for things they can’t sell, ie look at the WaPo some time or any of the others. Those ADM ads, those Lockheed Martin ads . . . the people who buy the papers or watch the news aren’t swayed by the ads to do anything. The ads buy silence or at least fudging on the news side of things.
And on that note, pleasant dreams everyone. We need to get our beauty sleep. LOTS of work to do to turn the ship of state around. That iceberg is upon us and most ‘murkins haven’t even noticed.
Actually, she spelled it like people pronounce it here in Louisiana. Brit-ney. Why spell it properly when people are gonna mispronounce it anyway :)
Sleep well RevDeb.
g’nite revdeb
Savoring the last few days of vacay – should have cleaned house and did not! Yay me!
People can buy the companies’ stocks, I guess. ADM – supermarket to the world.
My house is not nearly as clean as it was when
the teens’slavedrivermy nephew spent more time here and less time at his girlfriend’s apt.Night all.
sleep well prof.
Night professor.
RevDeb is right – they’re not selling products, they’re buying media influence – control over the message.
Until Thom Hartman explained the ad buys…..
just why do I need to know that I can’t buy product X but it makes product Y better?
Just why would I need to know about that big telecom satellite up there in space?
Why should I care about how deep that oil rig drills for oil, they are so hard to accessories…
To close out on the Kristol/Times matter, my restrained reply to the Times:
**waving goodnite to all the sleepy pups leaving**
Night Teddy, night Suz, night everyone else. (Delurking and taking flu off to bed.)
snack is up
*gasp* A TD! Finally…
night spurious. feel better.
g’nite prof, spurious (and anyone else I missed while walking Token, the cutest dog in the world, aiding in the little guy’s efforts to save the redwoods)
Yes, I think so. They can rape and pillage the environment in many parts of the world at will and nobody is going to tell on them cuz they got the big bucks.
One TD and extra point, but no alohas.
Awesome letter, Sir.
Sorry. Too little, too late, I’m afraid.If it’s any consolation, I am sick to death of listening to “Glory, Glory Haleluia!”
Marcus Brown just took a kick-off return to Hawaii’s six-yard line. Not a good night for Aloha State fans. Hope next year’s better.
That looks like a real quesadilla from Ol Mexico. Makes me yearn for Chihuahua (the city, not the dog) again. What I really love are tacos al pastor. And elote. Did you ever see people walking down a city street eating an ear of corn? They do it in Chihuahua. :)
Plus, thanks to NAFTA, CAFTA, and the like – if they are asked to stop raping, looting and pillaging their ‘host’ countries, they can sue those countries for, not only actual, but potential loss of profit! How about them apples?
At least ya saw the flash of brilliance of Graunke, the next QB, Hawaii will be around next year…! 8-)
Did that in Athens and loved it. Great corn, too.
earlofhuntingdon
please, please let us know when (and if) they respond to your response to their response to your original complaint.
Alicia, you are one smart individual. Those trade agreements are horrible and unfair. They are misnamed on purpose of course. Everybody loves free trade – but that ain’t what they are.
Wall Street Journal
Not one news column during the LIbby trial or appeal. A few predicatable editorials by Vicki Toensig and a couple other editorials excoriating Fitz, Reggie Walton, and pleading for a pardon.
MSM has been pathetic this year, and will continue that tradition.
what’s that line in Alice’s Restaurant? When one does it, when two do it, when three, when four? At what point does this become a conspiracy?
Disgusting.
Teddy – Very Diggable post…
The ghostly disappearance of Scooter from the news cycle reminds me that…
Democrats took the house and Senate in last Novembers elections. Or did they?
Digg This!
Isn’t it ten, Suz?
pun! tex!
I’m not sure, but puntex may be a past participle of the verb “to punt” in Latin
If people knew what Libby really did – the bare facts – they might be outraged. The papers and the news shows ain’t telling. This is not right.
I love Chihuahua…Zachatechas and Copper Canyon.
dugg
i think we are approaching critical mass, alicia
i pun’d without knowing it? dang
thanks, newt!
Isn’t puntex what you get garments made of when you’re journeying into truly pun-filled waters?
Time for bed. Good night all!
g’nite madmommy
If I had not found Firedoglake, I’d know NOTHING about the Libby scandal. This is why I’m here reading and learning and writing to Congress. Really, this is my lifeline to reality.
sleep well madmom
i thought puntex was a microfiber used in football uniforms
I can’t even remember what I did before FDL.
I learned about it from Rachel Maddow’s show and later came to FDL.
I feel the same way.
“When Johhny comes marching home hurrah hurrah”
My Man My Man John Edwards lays down the guantlet of Peace. He also knows the cost of staying even if to “train” like Nam. Good man hold their feet to the fire. I like your style and your fight.
What is this “before FDL” you speak of? Is that like the “real life” that dear WaterTiger mentions occasionally?
Nor I … wait, I spent hours watching the Lamont campaign on Daily Kos.
Did you take the train to copper canyon? That was awesome. The toilet had a hole straight thru to the tracks below. I had a Mexican girlfriend who lived in Chi Mex. She was my personal guide. She was a lovely woman and the trip was sublime.
Do we love her, or WHAT?
punt-ex could be what some divorced people dream of.
Fish wrap!
LMAO!
If I had not found Firedoglake, I’d know NOTHING about the Libby scandal. This is why I’m here reading and learning and writing to Congress. Really, this is my lifeline to reality.
And I learn something new here every day, or at least walk away thinking I did. I think I just learned that the Romans invented football.
A belated aloha, MM!
Had to go back and check #181. Thought maybe you were lovin’ on me.
Yes, Teddy, I think that it was when I actually believed what I saw on the “tv.”
CO2..the collective exhale violates the clean air act which can be used against Ds but not Rs
Another caucus controversy:
more at the link
didn’t you ever pause to wonder why Super Bowls are enumerated with Roman numerals?
Convicted!
Hi Betsy! Funny! I think Rachel Maddow is one of the smartest women on radio and tv (but my best to Jane and Christy and, and all of our wonderful FDL women!)
No not if he is impeached or indicted. Pelosi can’t stop an indictment!
That’s the maddening thing about this. We are never going to know. Libby still holds out for a full pardon, with his bargaining chip that he’s not going to spill the beans on a very culpable Cheney and Bush.
This is my comfort zone, Margot.
Technically, Irv had resigned by the time he was convicted.
But when he was indicted, he still worked in the White House. For the President. Of the United States.
Are they expecting a food fight?
-G
I visited here before, but I got hooked on the Libby. Now I can’t stay away…
ConvicTED!!!!
fixed it. Not you, Teddy, this one…
Soitinly. Since the original was a form letter – no doubt, they’ve heard from a “murder” of angry readers – they’re unlikely to reply, especially as their form relied so heavily on deceptive, human resources-like jargon (”Peeeople ARE our most important asset!”).
I don’t think The Times’ claim to be advancing open debate holds any water, not if “open” and rational, credible, fact-based “debate” are what they mean. Rather, I think they cynically hope that Kristol will just up the views, clicks, comments and readership because his message is so adverse to their traditional readers. It’s the entertainment value, not the “open debate” they’re shooting for. That the pope has asked the prince of darkness to write a weekly sermon doesn’t seem to bother the Sulzberger suits at the Times.
Someone should send the Times a copy of the Jon Stewart clip where he excoriated Tuck-Me-In-Daddy Carlson and compared Cross Fire’s claim to being a tough interview show to be like calling Big Time Wrestling a pro sport.
Yes, The Libby precipitate has jammed a monkey wrench into the wheels of justice.
Before I knew about FDL, maybe even before it existed, I got what little news there was about Valerie Wilson and so on via Kevin Drum and maybe some at TPM. It drove me crazy that someone in our own government outed a CIA agent and there was no damn coverage!
But we sure as hell knew what color the terror thermometer was set at. (High if before elections, elevated at all other times.)
Puntex is a Czech-manufactured plastic explosive that generates high-acceleration propulsion of fluids out the nose.
Late Late is up
It is so awful — I turned it off in 2006. Nothing left for me but Keith.
The Man.. he is someting good from sports
Right. And Ridge came out and confessed that the color levels were manipulated for political purposes. No big deal.
Officials involved in Libby Scandal(excludes media like Russert, Mitchesll):
23 Administration Officials Involved In Plame Leak
among tech-heads in not-too-distant northern Italy, these fluids are called ASCI Spew-monty
Yeah, here’s another one: “Some say she deserved it because she’s a Democrat.”
Lovely, eh?
Before all move to a new thread, I would add, a la the Libby/Plame story, that FDL and Empty Wheel (when still @ thenexthurrah) had and have the most literate, informed, on point commentary I’ve read. Better than the comments section at Glenn Greenwald’s or TPM (both good), and far ahead of ThinkProgress or Froomkin’s WaPo blog (which are overrun by trolls). In those examples, I would highly rate the blogs themselves, just not their comments sections.
I’d second that emotion.
Fascinating some poster defended the tape destruction as patriotic way to protect the torturers…what about defending Valerie Plame i guess outing her didn’t count. Wow. The logic is loyalty is above the law. Very across the aisle?
Hunting for the right words…’gonzo’ legal advising…perhaps.
Before the mass-migration to the next thread, I just wanted to say that I think this is an achingly important post, Teddy. The Cheney administration owes its continued existence to the disturbing truth that all outrages blow over with time in today’s media environment.
Consider also the Iraq Study Group. Bush gained many months of insulation by insisting that media and critics withold judgment on the Iraq war until the ISG presented its blue-ribbon findings. Once it did, he walked away from the group’s conclusions and paid no price for the hypocrisy.
The Cheney administration understands, and the Democratic leadership cowers in the face of, the deep neuropsychiatric dynamics of complacency.
I do too, Ralphbon. It shocked me, actually. I did not set out to prove the null. I set out to skewer their coverage in the year-end roundups. Finding there was none — that was entirely unexpected.
Their mendacity knows no bounds. None.