HoodaThunk?

So, this week it has finally been revealed who dropped Valerie Plame’s name to reporter Robert Novak. In spite of 3 years of howling accusation, unsupported inuendo, and outright lies it turns out that all the angst being directed from the harbingers of the Left toward Presdential advisor Karl Rove was completely misplaced and their accusations dead wrong. As everyone who’s had the news on this week knows by now, it was Richard Armitage that “leaked” the name. Neither Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, nor anyone in their offices had a damn thing to do with it.

Common courtesy, the accepted standards of personal honor, and ettiquette in general demand that when someone wrongly accuses a person, then that someone owes an apology. That apology should be at least as loud and prominent as the incorrect accusation was, regardless of the standard the media seems to follow or burying corrections where no one can see. So what about the people who screamed that Rove should be fired, or jailed? What about the guy who – wrong again! – said Rove had been indicted by Fitzgerald? All of those people worked very, very hard to sling as much mud as possible and did whatever they could to see that mud stick to people who had nothing whatsoever to do with the alleged “crime” and they now know it.

So, where’s the apology? The “I believed it was Rove, but I was wrong. I’m sorry I pressed the accusation without proper evidence” that should be posted front page on their blogs or announced the 1st minute of their next radio appearance? Does anyone honestly believe that anyone on the Left who frothed at the mouth that Rove should be perp-walked out of the White House will display the kind of ethics to actually admit their mistakes?

And does anyone else find that inability ironic in people who are demanding the White House admit mistakes? Bush hatred has blinded these people to such irony or made them uncaring about it. I trust they’ll remember that when the time comes that they are the ones being wrongly accused.