There were few, if any, disclosures in Rove’s e-mails or his interviews with the newspapers. For the most part, Rove said, as the White House did earlier, that he was providing political guidance about larger policy issues and was interested in helping put the best people into prosecutor positions that were either already open or about to become open.

We are not sure why this conclusion is drawn, since even the NYTimes and the Post acknowledge significant disclosures. Guess the LA times is mad they were excluded from access to Rove in this instance.

I e-mailed him twice and got no response. Guess since I am in Alabama I don’t count.

If you want to ask him how he draws such an erroneous conclusion, here’s his e-mail address:

josh.meyer@latimes.com

Rove Declares Innocence in U.S. Attorney Firings, Dems Cry Foul Play

A “Heavier Hand in Prosecutor Firings Than Previously Known?”

No one at the Post has been following our coverage for the past two years, or even the coverage at Harper’s magazine. Newspaper reporters typically use the paper’s own archives for background when researching a story, and the only stories the Post has run to date on the Siegelman case were from Bob Johnson at the Alabama bureau of AP. Everyone of those stories contained the exact same background phrase saying Siegelman and Scrushy were “convicted by a jury of their peers.”

Apparently, no one at the Associated Press has covered enough court to know that judges have a tremendous amount of power to influence the outcome of a case. In this case, the judge forced an obviously hung jury to reach a verdict with what we in the press sometimes call a “dynamite charge.” Then, when it was discovered that jurors were reading news coverage online and e-mailing each other about the case — a clear violation of the jury’s charge in any court in the land — he white-washed juror misconduct with only the pretense of an investigation.

So as the real “watchdog press” around here, we say he was convicted by a corrupt Republican judge — not a jury of his peers.

But the Washington Post would rather have “access” to guys like Rove than challenge his spin in print.

The New York Times story is not much better. The headline says, “Rove Says His Role in Prosecutor Firings Was Small,” then goes on to quote from e-mail messages showing full well that Rove was directing the action at Justice from the West Wing. What more proof do investigators need?

Funny that much of the opposition to health care reform is coming from Southern conservatives, whose constituents could use some health care coverage the most. Politicians do not represent constituents. They represent the corporations who give them all their campaign money.

Unfortunately, after eight years of Bush, they have ALL the money now.

I say we make that movie to get Saddam’s gold back from the Bush ranch in Paraguay, and use the money get rid of the last of the Southern conservatives in Congress.