IT'S HAPPENING AGAIN!

Yglesias notices a problem with the excuses put out there by Rove's defenders:

So correct me if I'm wrong, but the pro-Rove spin regarding Matt Cooper's notes is that this matter of Joe Wilson's wife just sort of came up casually in a conversation that was focused on something else. It's not as if Rove was running around telling everyone he could find that Wilson's wife was at the CIA.

Meanwhile, the pro-Rove spin regarding Bob Novak's column is that this matter of Joe Wilson's wife just sort of came up casually in a conversation that was focused on something else. It's not as if Rove was running around telling everyone he could find that Wilson's wife was at the CIA.

There's a problem here, right? Right.

Right.