Who leaked it?

Posted at 5:43 PM on August 29, 2007 by Bob Collins (1 Comments)

There was some discussion on MNspeak.com last night about why the Minnesota media "missed" the story of the arrest of Sen. Larry Craig, since it happened right under their, umm, noses.

Jason DeRusha of WCCO (disclaimer: I'm a DeRusha fan), did a pretty good job, I think, of explaining how this could have happened. And the folks who hate the local media will add this factoid to their arsenal of crimes against the people.

But this is the type of story that gets leaked to the media and even though it was "bridge" week, if someone called and said "hey, a sitting U.S. senator who has a perfect score from the morality folks just pleaded guilty to soliciting sex in a men's room at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport!," well, even the folks who think all the cute stories at the Fair are news would respond.

But nobody did, which tells me that the phone call never was made to the local media.

Instead it was leaked to Roll Call, the veritable official publication of Congress.

Now it's unlikely that Roll Call would even enter the consciousness of your average cop, so I don't think the leak came from Minneapolis. I'm guessing -- and this is important, I'm only guessing here -- that the call to Roll Call, was made from Washington, by someone who thinks Roll Call when the subject of "media that can inflict immediate and fatal damage" comes up.

So who made the call? Someone who wasn't a cop who somehow knew that Craig had been picked up and pleaded guilty.

Craig spent a whole lot of time on Tuesday attacking the Idaho Statesmen, but his real enemy, apparently, is his real enemy in Washington. I wonder who it is?

Comments (1)

Had the Democrat Senatorial Committee obtained the information, it would have been leaked on the second Monday of October, 2008 (remember Mr. Foley).

Posted by purpleblogdog | August 30, 2007 8:37 AM

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