Rebel With A Cause

Via Atrios:

Ken Mehlman: A leak is when you ask a reporter to write a story. He was discouraging a reporter from writing a false story.

So why did Bob Novak write the same story, virtually verbatim, that Rove told Cooper? Was he rebelling against the Republican establishment? Refusing to be cowed by political operatives? Unable to take a hint? What?

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