This post at Think Progress details how to shoot down Rovegate lies.

Why so many outrageous lies from the right in Rovegate? Boston Globe columnist Tom Oliphant knows the answer, and explained it on the Al Franken Show:

Modern right wing propaganda, and here I’m using my words carefully, is based on the headline value of assertion as opposed to the lasting value of evidence. And they have learned that they can say anything, and unfortunately, given today’s journalism, it’ll get reported.

From a recent email message:

The root crime here is not the Karl Rove leak story.

The root crime is that a President of the United States lied in an official address to the nation about the necessity of going to war.

I can’t currently imagine a higher crime. Oh,............. except for lying about being unfaithful to your wife.

Josh Marshall on the real cover-up:

The entire Wilson/Plame story and the Rove/White House criminal probe sub-story are just so many threads thrown off a much larger and more consquential ball of yarn: the administration’s use of fraudulent evidence of an Iraqi nuclear weapons program to seal the deal for war on Iraq with the American people.

That’s where the real cover up is. These are just side stories. So why not cut to the chase and have a real investigation to get to the bottom of that?