Such profound a logician

How this is an actual defense escapes me, but any port in a storm I guess...

Byron York has a vital detail in his must-read piece right now on the main part of the NRO website. Karl Rove's lawyer, Robert Luskin, tells Byron that Time's Matt Cooper called Rove to talk about something else and that only secondarily did the subject of Joseph Wilson and Valerie Plame come up.

This is important, because it suggests Rove wasn't "retailing" the information about Wilson and Plame -- wasn't reporter-shopping to drop a dirty dime on those involved -- but was rather a passive source, answering a phone call at the reporter's behest and presumably changing topics to the sexier one at issue at the reporter's behest as well.

How in fuck's sake do you pull that one out of your ample buttocks there Pod?

If Matt Cooper called about something else, and then Karl Rove sticks in a "oh by the way Joe Wilson's wife sent him to Niger and she works for the CIA on WMD, but don't tell anybody I told you this" how on earth is that NOT more evidence of Rove's wrongdoing.

Jiminy Jeebus, even the Kool-Aid drinkers are not that moronic.