Transparent trickery

From Jason Leopold at Truthout: "Just as the news broke Wednesday about Scott McClellan resigning as White House press secretary and Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove shedding some of his policy duties, Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald met with the grand jury hearing evidence in the CIA leak case and introduced additional evidence against Rove, attorneys and other US officials close to the investigation said."

Coincidence? Uh, surely not. This White House knows what it's doing. The big "overhaul" (Rove down, McClellan out) -- for more, see here -- could have been announced anytime. Earlier in the week, next week, whenever. Did it have to be yesterday? Of course. The Magicians of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue know that timing matters. In fact, all political operatives do. It's just that it's so fucking transparent with these guys, so fucking obvious. Yet, transparent or not, obvious or not, the media took the bait. And they're still talking about it, making a story out of a non-story, something out of nothing.

Alright, let's move onto something else...