Posted by Ed Hulse on 09/12/06 04:21

David Totheroh wrote:

> > Well, there *was* that little matter of making up conversations
> > wholesale and attributing to Reagan remarks he never made -- like the
> > one about AIDS being God's way of punishing gays.
>
> You're absolutely right. Reagan didn't say that. His communications
> director Pat Buchanan said AIDs was "nature's revenge on gay men" and
> Reagan never had him retract or amend the statement.

And that, I take it, justifies putting similar words in Reagan's mouth.
So much for the concern about fictionalizing history....

> Novak has said lots of things, like that he used the term "Agency
> operative" when he says he meant 'employee.' For someone who's been in
> Washington as long as he has, it doesn't pass the smell test. What he
> says contradicts your implication that his confirmation came from
> "WHO'S WHO." "Novak will later write that he originally acquired the
> information from an official who is "no partisan gunslinger." Novak
> says, "When I called another official for confirmation, he said:
> 'Oh, you know about it.'"" The documents are ambiguous about who
> he met first, Armitage or Rove. And in any case, documents show that
> Libby leaked the info more than 2 weeks before Novak spoke to both
> Armitage and Rove.

Mr. Stone, meet Mr. Totheroh.

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