Patrick Fitzgerald A Failure? By Whose Standards, May I Ask?

Once again, the "media" is carrying the Republican water buckets, this time as it relates to Patrick Fitzgerald, the U.S. Attorney who successfully prosecuted Libby, and is now in charge of the Blagojevich case.

First it was that shrill Malkin chick (wherever in the world did this bitch get the idea she actually has a brain?) with her comments that the Democrats "will turn on a dime" if Fitzgerald continues with the prosecution of Blagojevich. Now it's Brit Hume and Joe Scarborough with their lame comments that Fitzgerald brings cases with “a lot of smoke” but “no fire,” claiming Fitzgerald is "going to go 0 for 2 here in national investigations.”

As Think Progress has noted:

To say Fitzgerald might go “0 for 2″ in national investigations not only ignores the fact that he won a conviction of a Bush aide in the Plame case but, more importantly, completely ignores Fitzgerald’s successful prosecution of the terrorists — including “the blind Shiek” Omar Abdul Rahman — who bombed the World Trade Center in 1993. During the trial, Fitzgerald provided a passionate and forceful voice against what he called “a war of urban terrorism,” years before “the War on Terror” began:

– “Terrorism is real. It is here. It is in this courtroom,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald told the jury. [AP, 10/2/95]

– Assistant United States Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald concluded more than two days of the Government’s closing argument by telling the jurors, “The defendants in this room conspired to steal from Americans their freedom from fear.” [NY Times, 9/8/95]

Fitzgerald also indicted Osama bin Laden for terrorism years before he was on the national radar, after the 9/11 attacks. In addition, he secured the fraud conviction of Conrad Black, who had ties to the Bush White House. After successfully prosecuting terrorists, mobsters, governors, and White House officials, Fitzgerald is hardly in danger of going “0 for 2.”

First the complaints from the Republicans was that Fitzgerald was a zealot in prosecuting Republicans for their corruption and criminal activities, despite his record of prosecuting more Democrats than Republicans. Now they are complaining about his prosecution of Blagojevich! It's just like the dog chasing his tail -- circular logic, that only shows the pundit media to be the asses that they are.