One Big Leak, And One Lone Voice
For those who were wondering what happened to the Valerie Plame investigation, all of the key players are baaaack....and their presence is felt in today's blog rankings. With news reports indicating that President Bush himself authorized the leaks of classified information by indicted VP aide "Scooter" Libby (today's most-blogged phrase), the old familiar names are back among today's bursty people -- Libby, former New York Times report Judith Miller, special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald and Plame, the CIA agent who was outed, apparently in retaliation for her husband's criticsm of the intelligence that led to the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Fine art, asks Political Bloviation? Leaker in Chief, asks the Accidental Blogger?
Like Mack, in Yertle the Turtle
One of my favorite Dr. Seuss stories is Yertle the Turtle, and when the name of Harry Taylor appeared as today's burstiest person in the blogosphere, I scratched my head. Harry who? I wondered. At a gathering with President Bush in North Carolina, he stood up and gave a small but eloquent piece of his mind to the Lea...er, Commander in Chief, as captured by Shakespeare's Sister blogger and Think Progress. (Mack, the lone turtle at the bottom of a thousand-turtle stack, finally spoke up shook the throne of Yertle, the turtle king, for those who don't know...).
Neither here nor there
Odds and ends from the blogosphere: Meredith Viera is moving from "The View" into Katie Couric's seat at "The Today Show," Powazek blogger wants an end to the term "user-generated content," the Department of Homeland Security has more than one accused sex offender and TPM Cafe blogger hopes the U.S. will listen to Israel about how to deal with Iran.
Posted by Sue MacDonald at April 7, 2006 11:56 AM
