I don’t spend a lot of time trolling the lefty blogosphere. But I must confess I’m increasingly fascinated by this Jason Leopold character. If he’s lying, he’s truly demented. And I think he has to be lying. First. I trust Byron’s instincts entirely. It’s possible that his sources are lying to him, but not only can I see no reason why it would be in Rove’s lawyers’ interests to do so, but I also suspect Byron would sense they were lying to him. Leopold claims that various media sources have confirmed that Rove was indicted but that higher-ups at major news organizations have 86′d the story. Uh, riiiight. If the story is true and they know it, can anyone offer a plausible explanation why, say ABC News or Knight-Ridder, wouldn’t run with the news that Rove was indicted? And even if these outlets kept their mouths shut, how could you keep it a secret? What’s fascinating to me is that a lie people want to hear (like the US Government ordered the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon) gets traction solely because people want to hear it.

Good links and picture over at Wizbang , btw.