FAIR Media Views
Slate's "Tim Noah says Bush did the right thing" in commuting Scooter Libby's entire 30-month perjury sentence. "In fact, he says 'bully for him'" and questions if it's "really fair," since Bill Clinton "committed perjury.... The country knew it, and it let him get away with it." Digby makes the important distinctions that escape Noah:The country backed Bill Clinton because it was obvious that he was being pursued by a shrieking band of harpies over an inconsequential, sexual indiscretion.... The Libby matter, on the other hand, was a national security investigation in the wake of the worst terrorist attack in history. Libby lied repeatedly and blatantly to the FBI and Federal prosecutors when the stakes were very high.... Clinton was...tried and acquitted according to the rules of the Constitution. Bush, on the other hand, just used his plenary power to commute a sentence to cover his own bad deeds.... And apparently, as predicted, that's just fine with a good portion of the D.C. establishment. The oh-so-jaded political observers like Tim Noah see this whole thing as some sort of partisan game of tag.
