The Mediacrats are fearful that the Valerie Plame story may not have legs. Karl Rove has not been indicted, and may never be, and other than a few Washington insiders, nobody has ever heard of Lewis (Scooter) Libby before. The solution is to push two themes: 1) this is really Cheney's treachery and a White House hatched conspiracy, and 2) Americans are and should be very upset about it.  Tonight Joe Wilson will be on 60 Minutes to tell about threats his wife has supposedly received, and about all the agents supposedly endangered by the leak of Valerie Plame's identity. The New York Times is running several stories on its front page, two days after the indictment (apparently Plamegate is a bigger continuing  story than the Iraqi elections or Iran's expressed desire to wipe out Israel). Virtually every major media outlet headlined the indictment against Libby without use of his name, but as "Top Cheney Aide Indicted". The Washington Post and ABC are out with an instant...(Read Full Post)