There's a reason why Atta J. Turk is an amateur

Anonymous blogging provocateur, and Prof. Alterman is paid (he is paid right? -- Doesn't somebody get paid something on the internet that doesn't involve facials or anal intercourse?)

I'm sorry I appeared to have digressed on a calamitous level in the paragraph above. I blame my mother, or the Clenis, or something.

Where was I?

Oh, yes, there is a reason that I am not earning an income from my natterings, because I write jokes and Doc Alterman types this:

Two quick points about this Rovegate paragraph:

Special Prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald has shown particular interest, legal sources told TIME, in a classified State Department memo that was forwarded to the White House the day after Joe Wilson’s article appeared in the New York Times. It was marked for delivery to Secretary of State Colin Powell, who was traveling with the President to Africa that day. The memo, originally dated June 10, 2003, identified Plame and discussed her role in recommending her husband for the mission to Niger, TIME’s Editor-at-Large Nancy Gibbs reports. [Here]

Point 1: We’re told we’re not going to get nearly as many unattributed quotes any more and we get, from Time, “legal sources?” That’s the best Time could do? What the hell good is that? For all we know, this story is sourced to Arnie Becker. (Hint: Administration lawyers like Rove’s Ruskin are leaking like proverbial sieves. Prosecution lawyers are not.)

Point 2: A State Department memo was leaked. Hmm, doesn’t John Bolton work in the State Department? Isn’t he a notorious leaker to his neocon allies? Isn’t the administration refusing to show the Senate Foreign Relations Committee his memos even though it means they are refusing to confirm him as a result? Didn’t Judith Miller carry his water on those now discredited leaks in re Syria and Cuban WMD programs, or some other such scary nonsense?

Wow, that's really good.

Meanwhile, I made a picture of Rove in a tutu!

(original modified from insanity planet.com)

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...thought not.