The Furious Spinner

Did you hear that Chavez has cut prices of Venezuela's CITGO oil for low-income residents of Massachusetts? I love it!

They're even covering this on mainstream media. CNN says, "Citgo Petroleum Corp., a subsidiary of Venezuela's state-owned oil company, will supply oil at 40 percent below market prices. It will be distributed by two nonprofit organizations, Citizens Energy Corp. and the Massachusetts Energy Consumers Alliance. The agreement gives President Hugo Chavez's government standing as a provider of heating assistance to poor U.S. residents at a time when U.S. oil companies have been reluctant to do so and Congress has failed to expand aid in response to rising oil prices."

Chavez just makes me chuckle.

A friend of the Bush administration and Tom DeLay has plead guilty of conspiring to bribe a member of Congress. Etc. Ahhh, the party of Lincoln is still making us proud, isn't it? Actually I wish he hadn't pleaded guilty. I wish they'd given him immunity so that he would rat out the whole bunch.

By the way, did you see Bob Woodward on Larry King Live last night. We watched it to see what he had to say for himself. Someone in the administration outed Valeria Plame to him before Scooter Libby outed her to Judith Miller. (Frankly, I don't think it matters if the person did it before or after—it's not the timing that's important but the deed itself.) Woodward said he never told his editor or anyone else because he could tell the guy wasn't part of a huge conspiracy or anything. I was dumbfounded. Oh, so he could just tell so he was above the law—or above journalistic ethics?

I said to Mario, "Wow, he's as bad as the Bush administration, as bad as all of these people who are in Washington. They're in power so they believe they are above us all. Why bother with the law or ethics or doing the right thing when you are the power?" Woodward kept talking about his great access to the administration so he could judge for himself whether the person who outed Plame to him was being nefarious. What's been happening lately (Novak, Miller, Woodward) demonstrates why journalists should not be stars. Woodward gave up his credibility for access, to my way of thinking. I was frankly shocked. Although I've thought he's a bit of a stuffed shirt and he might have gotten some things wrong about Bush, I always thought (because of his coverage of Watergate) that he was a good journalist. I'm certainly rethinking that now. (OK, OK, I've been rethinking it since he's started writing those books about the Bushies.) For one thing, while he had this information about Plame he went on talk shows saying that Plamegate was nothing like Watergate and that Fitzgerald was overreaching. Geez Louise. Go back to journalism school, man. 0 comments

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