Libby: Leftly Leaning - Tuesday, February 8th

With “reputations and fig leaves falling left and right,” Pachacutec splays open the claim that partisan bloggers can’t be trusted – “There are no virgins here, folks. Everyone around this trial has an agenda [1], including every media outlet.”

On Democrats.comUnity, dlindorff notes that Kristof’s call for Cheney to come clean should also be extended to the president and presents a litany of questions [2] the public has a right to know.

Jeff Lomonaco examines the implications surrounding a surprise revelation [3] that Wolfowitz was in this scandal at least up to his ankles. Also, some further exploration of Bush’s collusion [4] in the pushback against Wilson.

Wonkette [5] blogs about CourtTV [6] blogging about bloggers blogging [7] about Libby – yowza, I need to sit down!

Following 15 minutes of blogular fame, Politblogo explores the layers of ‘meta’ surrounding the Libby case [8] and offers some tough love for the Democratic Party’s complicity with a system that allows for such crimes, metacrimes, and metametacrimes.

Finally, Jeralyn notes the blogosphere’s role [9] in sustaining a story the MSM would have rather seen dead [10].