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Karl Rove and Wedding Crashers

Crossposted on JBFABA

Sen. McCain was a guest on This Week with George Stephanopoulos. I knew there'd be some discussion on John Roberts, but I was also hoping to hear more about the legislation he is co-sponsoring Sen. Graham and Sen. Warner that would (in a quote interpolated from ChargingRINO) "...bar the U.S. military from engaging in 'cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment' of detainees, from hiding prisoners from the Red Cross, and from using interrogation methods not authorized by a new Army field manual."

Instead, I got an interview about Karl Rove and Wedding Crashers.

Apparently, because Sen. McCain had a seven second cameo where he shook hands with Christopher Walken outside of a church, there's a controversy brewing because he's a U.S. Senator and the movie is, as Drudge Rreport calls it, "a boob raunch fest." McCain's response is, "In Washington, I work with boobs everyday." That's good enough for me, so instead of wasting any of my own sarcasm on this nonsense, I'd rather just move on to Mr. Rove.

I'm still not entirely sure what the story is exactly, but here's what I've pieced together. Karl Rove was accused of something bad. Liberals don't like him, so since he was accused of something bad, he's guilty and should be fired (or at least tarred and feathered). Conservatives like him, so it doesn't matter what he was accused of in the first place. They're taking the stick your fingers in your ears and scream "I'm not listening" defense. Somewhere in the middle Time Magazine got a lot of publicity, Newsweek had fun criticizing them, and a New York Times reporter is jailed for not writing anything. I think Jude may have broken up Brad and Angelina too.

My point - and I do have one - is this: There aren't nearly enough facts to know exactly what they knew and when they knew it, so people just make it up as they go along. We've become an overly opinionated society where, instead of forming an opinion once all the facts are in, we form our opinion as all the facts come in. For every five minutes of factual information, we get five days of people giving their opinion on it. Yet if anyone ever changes their mind based on new facts that came in, they're accused of not getting their facts straight.

In the case of the morning shows, important issues get glossed over so Senators and other government officials can give an answer without giving an answer, while the bloggers (shut up) look for any excuse to jump in and say, "Gotcha!"

Is there a story here somewhere? Duh. Releasing classified information is a serious offense, and I don't mean it to sound like something to be taken lightly. But it's a serious offense - that's why there is an investigation under way (with a special prosecutor who apparently knows how to git r' done). When that investigation has concluded and people in the Bush Administration are being charged with something, then bring the comeuppance and let the media circus begin. I'll even bring the feathers.

However until then, let's focus on current issues like a war that still isn't going well (and is fixing to get worse come Aug. 15th), terrorist attacks on London, a war of a different kind brewing in the senate over Stem Cell research funding, rising gas prices, extreme interest groups on both sides in need of a serious smackdown, congress over reacting because a democrat wants to buy a major league baseball team, growing concerns in China and Iran, the next time some white chick goes missing...