Fitzgerald Beans Libby, Metaphorically Speaking

Patrick Fitzgerald played it close to the vest during his press conference, leaving many than Plamegate mysteries unsolved.

But he did reveal a penchant for evocative analogies, drawing on bank robbers, truck drivers, tea leaves, and baseball beanball battles to explain the Plamegate charges.

Indeed, if the coming trial comes to a metaphoric showdown between the literary skills of Pat Fitzgerald and Scooter Libby, my money is on the prosecutor.

I'll take "obstruction of justice is like throwing sand in the umpire's eyes" over "aspens turn in clusters because their roots connect them" any day of the week.