Posted by
Kilroy on Friday, March 16, 2007 7:05:08 AM
Plot -- Special Prosecutor indicts Libby to put pressure on Vice President to confess to a non-criminal act committed by State Department Official. (Special Prosecutors creed: 'charge someone, anyone -- lest we stop feeling so special').
Problem -- Chief witness, Joseph Wilson IV, widely perceived to be an oily fraud. Special Prosecutor needs a "witness" with a public image of believability.
Enter Tim Russert -- The "Walter Cronkite of our time" - widely liked because he tells that same folksy story
(over, and over, and over, and over, and over -- we get it already, Tim) about his dad (Big Russ) driving a Ford when son (Little Russ) offered to buy him a Lexus and has spun this tale of dad's frugality into a perception of his own virtue. Case would rise or fall on the jury's image of this witness.
Fitzfong In Song: I put Libby Libby Libby
At the Table Table Table
Wanted Cheney Cheney Cheney
Wasn’t Able Able Able
Wilson’s Story Story Story
Was a Fable Fable Fable
But Old man Russert Russert Russert
*Drove A Sable Sable Sable
So I put Libby Libby Libby
At the Table Table Table
* yeah, I know it was a “Crown Vic” (we
ALL know it’s a Crown Vic - enough already Tim)
