MSM Again Skewing Not Reporting

I read a story written by the AP wire a few minutes ago. The story villified Scooter Libby giving the impression that he, President Bush and VP Cheney all were involved in something illegal. Only as you read toward the bottom does the AP story cover its own but by reporting Libby's side and its strategy for clearing his name.

Libby's side:

Libby is asking for voluminous amounts of classified information from the government in order to defend himself against five counts of perjury, obstruction and lying to the FBI in the Plame affair.

He is accused of making false statements about how he learned of Plame's CIA employment and what he told reporters about it.

Her CIA status was publicly disclosed by conservative columnist Robert Novak eight days after her husband accused the Bush administration of twisting prewar intelligence to exaggerate the Iraqi threat from weapons of mass destruction.

Libby says he needs extensive classified files from the government to demonstrate that Plame's CIA connection was a peripheral matter that he never focused on, and that the role of Wilson's wife was a small piece in a building public controversy over the failure to find WMD in Iraq.

Fitzgerald said in the new court filing that Libby's requests for information go too far and the prosecutor cited Libby's own statements to investigators in an attempt to limit the amount of information the government must turn over to Cheney's former chief of staff for his criminal defense.

Libby's position is that Plame was already a well known CIA employee and any discussion he made public was purely peripheral. If anything Wilson used his wife (Plame) to further the liberal view of the war and the reports of WMD.

Here is the beginning of the AP story:

According to Fitzgerald's court filing, Cheney, in conversation with Libby, raised the question of whether a CIA-sponsored trip by Wilson "was legitimate or whether it was in effect a junket set up by Mr. Wilson's wife."

The disclosure in documents filed Wednesday means that the president and the vice president put Libby in play as a secret provider of information to reporters about prewar intelligence on Iraq.

Talk about slanted reporting. This would tolerable in the Op-Ed section, however this is reported as hard news.

Frankly I join most of America in being weary of this MSM bashing of Conservatives. If it was not for Fox News being considered Main Stream by many there would be alternative reporting. WorldNetDaily is Slanted to the Conservative side on the extreme (which I like), however WND is considered outside the Main Stream. That is too bad, there needs to be more media with journalistic elegance slanted to the Right to confront Leftist reporting.