Corn Joins Reporters Hall of Shame
Veteran Washington columnist Robert Novak has written an article for The Weekly Standard that essentially nominates David Corn for the ‘Reporters Hall of Shame’. It totally explodes all of the Plamegate myths so be sure to read it all. Here’s a sampling of the article:
Corn telephoned me on July 16, 2003, two days after publication of my Valerie Plame column. He was neither a dispassionate reporter seeking information nor a former colleague on CNN’s Crossfire, where we maintained a relatively friendly relationship when he was a substitute liberal cohost in 1997-98. Instead, he was an impassioned, angry activist who accused me of “outing a CIA agent” and breaking the law. Since the Nation had never before been concerned with the protection of intelligence agents, I suspected political motives behind Corn’s outrage. It was our final conversation. The last thing Corn wanted from me was additional information.
Corn’s activism has been apparent for years to anyone who’s read even a paragraph of his ‘work’. Corn is the prototypical Agenda Media journalist. He won’t let facts get in the way of his agenda. He ‘knows’ that George Bush is evil incarnate and details won’t stop him. The fact that he wasn’t calling to get “additional information” into the Plame case tells what his motivation was.
I did not know how closely Corn was connected to Joseph Wilson IV until Wilson’s memoir, The Politics of Truth, was published in 2004. Wilson related that Corn called him July 17 “to alert me what Novak had done, or at least what the person who had leaked Valerie’s name to him had done, was possibly a crime.” By the Nation’s August 4 issue, Corn was writing that I, as a journalist, was not subject to prosecution. But on July 17 he clearly had conveyed the opposite impression to Wilson, who was the original source of Internet blather, continuing to this day, that I am a “traitor.”
Talk about talking out of both sides of your mouth!!! This guy is incredible. What a total hack journalist. I wouldn’t trust Mr. Corn as far as I could throw him if I had 2 broken arms and a broken back.
Hubris misrepresents me by saying my dilemma came after Fitzgerald appeared with the three waivers (”crunch time for Novak”) and that I gave up their names under pressure from the special prosecutor. This is such a misreading of my clear account that it must have been derived from either sloppiness or malice.
Mr. Novak obviously doesn’t think that sloppiness is the cause for the discrepancies. Neither do I. This goes back to my statement that agenda journalists won’t report facts that get in the way of their theory. It’s all about the agenda.
At the end of the day, it’s obvious that Corn isn’t a reporter but an activist who happens to write about his activism on a weekly basis.
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October 11th, 2006 at 9:00 am
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October 11th, 2006 at 11:59 am
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