Looks like "Turd Blossom" has stepped in it!

In a Previous high point of Time Magazine's history of powerful journalistic coverage, a 2001 report revealed that George W. Bush's pet name for Karl Rove is "Turd Blossom." No, really.

UPDATE: Reporter Michael Isikoff has obtained a copy of an email that Time magazine reporter Matt Cooper sent his bureau chief, Michael Duffy, on July 11, 2003--three days before conservative columnist Bob Novak first published the leak that outed CIA officer Valerie Wilson/Plame. In that email, Cooper wrote that he had spoken to Rove on "double super secret background" and that Karl Rove had told him that Joseph Wilson's "wife...apparently works at the agency on wmd issues." "Agency" means CIA.