Let Us Read

The shiny forehead. The subtle golf course sunburn. The well-fed twinkle behind the wire rims. The smile expressed in the shadows of the jowls and the dimpled chin.

Karl Rove is happy.

Scoreboard:

Judith Miller goes to jail for keeping her sources confidential. Indeed, some believe this is karmic justice; nevertheless, a writer is in jail, and I sympathize.

Matthew Cooper's source apparently contacted him and let him know that he could reveal his/her name. Karl, can you hear me? Contact everyone, and let them know what happened. You'll feel better.

Robert Novak keeps on writing as if nothing is happening.

Oh, and let's not forget Valerie Plame, whose distinguished and significant work with the CIA helped check the proliferation of weapons, is now outed and so can no longer do the covert work that, in part, made her so valuable.

Karl Rove has us all talking to each other. We are outraged that two writers have been put through the ringer, and we suspect Rove had something to do with the predicament they find themselves in. Who knows, maybe even Scott McClellan will go public with Rove's deception, seeing as Rove may have set Scotty up by telling him that he did not talk to Cooper, when, in fact, he had.

McClellan had trouble when he was asked directly if anyone in the White House told any reporter that Valerie Plame worked for the CIA.

David Corn, summarizes it this way:

On October 10, 2003, White House press secretary Scott McClellan was asked if Rove and two other White House aides had ever discussed Valerie Plame with reporters. McClellan said he had spoken to Rove and the others and that they had "assured me they were not involved in this."

Therefore, Corn and others have raised the question: if Rove was "not involved" how is it that he spoke with Cooper previous to the outing of Plame? Did McClellan know Rove had spoken to Cooper? I am not trying to go Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc on you, but the questions may be asked, and are being asked: How involved is "involved"? Or, as Lawrence O'Donnell keeps asking, how knowlingly is "knowlingly"?

Mr. Rove and his machinations have everybody talking.

And, at Fat Speak, everybody talking is a good thing.

As a matter of fact, that's what Fat Speak is all about -- getting people to pipe up in fat voices that sound through the corridors and connect us together.

Karl Rove has got us talking. Problem is, no one is sure what else he is doing.

Let's chew the fat: Let me know what you know.

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