60 Minutes Continues To Fabricate The News…Welcome To Rovegate

If you are going to go after Karl Rove, make sure you have actual evidence to back up the claim. Rove has been blamed for just about everything under the sun, but this takes the cake. (H/T to BCB for the link)

The chairman of the Alabama Republican Party sent a letter to “60 Minutes” producers asking for a retraction unless they could provide evidence backing up a segment on former Gov. Don Siegelman’s prosecution- Birmingham News.

This letter to “60 Minutes” was posted today at Blogs For Victory.
Via LGF Quick Links:

Dear Mr. Pelley,

Last Sunday, you aired a piece on “60 Minutes” that I consider a broad, frontal and unfair attack on our Republican president, his one-time top advisor, Alabama’s Republican Governor and our party, in general.

The report included an interview with a small town attorney, Dana Jill Simpson, who outrageously claimed that Karl Rove asked her to take explicit photos of Don Siegelman having improper extra-marital relations with “an aide” in 2001. Her interview with “60 Minutes” was the first time her newest charge appeared, despite her having testified for several hours before a committee of the U.S. Congress, and was the first time she claimed having met with Mr. Rove.

Most importantly, neither Dana Jill Simpson, nor your story or your network provided one shred of evidence that her charges had any merit or kernel of truth.

In contrast, the Wednesday, February 27, edition of the Birmingham News printed an interview with Mr. Rove in which he vehemently denies Simpson’s charges and expresses deep frustration in “60 Minutes” failure to obtain evidence of any relationship between them before airing such an explosive story. He further denies knowing Simpson, meeting or speaking with her or even having knowledge of the Siegelman prosecution beyond what he learned from traditional media coverage…

Given the serious nature of the charges, and the fact that 60 Minutes’ reputation as a reliable news source is once again at stake, I am asking that you publicly produce any evidence that was provided to you which substantiates Simpson’s claims…

Evidence? They don’t need no stinkin evidence! They just make it up as they go along..Just ask Dan!

Here is the Alabama GOP “Fact versus Fiction” page on Jill Simpson (pdf).

Please see Bob Owens and Mac’s Mind for more coverage.