END OF SUSPENSE

Ouch! “Karl Rove Won’t Be Charged in CIA Leak Case.” So says a WashPost headline. And here’s the same headline, word for word, in The NY Times. (Well, it was a verbatim duplicate until moments ago.)
So will Jason Leopold be chastened? I don’t think so. (He’s the freelance who reported that Rove would be indicted, touching off a wave — make that a tsunami — of Internet and press speculation.) But then I’m no one to talk, having written here, “I wouldn’t bet against him on the Rove indictment,” despite my doubts about his work. Methinks the “rampaging egomania,” which I objected to in Leopold’s memoir (“On the Record,” since retitled “News Junkie”), keeps getting in his way. Wish it didn’t.
Postscript: A friend comments (with photo evidence of White House thugs): “SMUG — trim, neat, akin to G. schmuck, 1. orig., neat, spruce, trim, etc. 2. narrowly contented with one’s own accomplishments, beliefs, morality, etc; self-satisfied to an annoying degree; complacent. (Webster’s New World Dictionary)”

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