from joe hague's comments on digg, we find a useful post topic -- cheney/bush

over at digg.com, commentary has ensued
on EW's fine writing, of earlier this week.

bar none, the lamest was this one, from a
guy using the handle "joe hague"

JoeHague on 05.30.08:

I know I could get about 100 Diggs for jumping on the band wagon and saying -Impeach Bush- or something to that nature. But I don't care. I don't care if this comment goes to 1000 minuses. Because I know that no Digger can respond logically to the following argument. Everyone hates Bush (at least 70% of people)- "Scottie" knows this. Scottie is promoting a book. Scottie will probably make money selling his book from these comments. Scottie is probably lying.

Yeah I know, I'm going there. It's not the first time. I have a certain stance when it come to public opinion- The masses are usually wrong.

So go ahead bury this comment, but know in your heart of hearts that as much as you want it to be true this story is probably false and at the very least the words of "Scottie" are ~unsubstantiated~

here was my reply -- after several
others had pointed to the lunacy, earlier:

. . .add to that, that all scottie has done

is CORROBORATE what empty wheel

had long ago established -- that BOTH

bush and cheney effectively ordered the

outing of valerie plame -- a covert

CIA asset, at the time.

so, here is the logic, joe -- sure scottie

is going to make money by selling his story,

but mr. hague -- but that doesn't make all

that special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald

PROVED in US v. Libby, in any manner

untrue.

In fact, that scottie's corroborates fitzs'

chain of evidence, simply means mr.

fitzgerald may not have aimed quite "high

enough" when he prosecuted mr. libby

for obstruction of justice -- and related crimes.

to be fair to mr. fitzgerald's estimable

prowess as a prosecutor, though, without

LOTS of corroborating witnesses -- like

scottie -- where the FCUK was he, then?! -- there

was simply no way a jury would convict

the sitting vice president, and his

simpering president/chimperor -- of

a Class X Felony.

so fitz did the prudent thing -- and

charged the case he knew he could

prove -- hoping a conviction of libby

would lead libby to flip, and dime

out cheney/bush -- once libby faced

the certainty of jail time for his part

in the outing, and cover-up.

but the "fix was in" from the go -- bush

pardoned commuted libby's sentence

the very same day his conviction

became a certainty for jail-time -- and,

astonishingly -- BEFORE mr. libby

even asked for any relief, or pardon!

that has never happened in the 220-plus

year history of this republic.

so, joe, explain to me, again, how

none of that actually happened.

yep -- scottie is a coward's late-in-

coming, small fry tell-all, for profit.

but his clearly confirms the larger

narrative. he is a coward for not standing

when it mattered -- i just hope no one

tries to paint him as some latter-day John Dean.

he is no john dean. but he has proved

to be a rather useful idiot, this week.