BTC News: Operation "Turd Blossom" continues: The press go nuts

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For years, Rove has enjoyed almost universally positive coverage from the White House and national press. “Yes,” they said, “he’s an amoral creature who will stoop as low as it takes to get his job done, but he has a great sense of humor, he’ll dish the dirt on anyone and he’s a winner! And besides, he scares us half to death.”

It wasn’t as if no one knew about Rove’s thuggish tendencies; in a story for Atlantic Monthly, Joshua Green detailed some of Rove’s more memorable exploits and remarked, “Having studied what happens when Karl Rove is cornered, I came away with two overriding impressions. One was a new appreciation for his mastery of campaigning. The other was astonishment at the degree to which, despite all that’s been written about him, Rove’s fiercest tendencies have been elided in national media coverage.”

‘Boy Genius’ was ascendant, and for the most part ‘Turd Blossom’ was nowhere to be found outside the bitter hearts of Rove’s beaten and bloodied opponents. But these days, ‘Turd Blossom’ stands front and center and the White House press corps are baying at the scent of blood.

The thing is, it isn’t Rove’s blood they’re after: It’s White House press secretary Scott McClellan’s. For two successive days, the White House press briefings have included vicious assaults on McClellan, primarily centered around his assurances from two years ago, when CIA agent Valerie Plame’s name was leaked by White House officials and made public by Bob Novak, that neither Rove nor Cheney advisor Scooter Libby nor National Security Council member Elliott Abrams had anything to do with the leak.