Gotta read this one
Wake me when she makes it to Playboy.
Telling it like it is. A must read.
Hitch scores multiple bullseyes with this article.
What I want to know is why the illustrious AMBASSADOR (they never fail to beat us over the head with that title) Joe Wilson hasn't demanded that RICHARD ARMITAGE be "frog marched" out to the street by the authorities?
Oh wait, it's not Karl Rove, Scooter Libby, or any of those guys who were FALSELY ACCUSED!
I often disagree with Hutch...but this one is right on the nose.
Not only that, the man is worthy of respect. You don't find that much in opponents any more.
Absolute dead silence from the Drive-By media. Which of course totally proves Socialist Hitchins and Progressive-Coservative Rush 100% correct.
I hadn't thought of this before.
Hitchens said it all. Great piece. One point he missed however...
I was on Limbaugh's show yesterday as a caller and made the following comment about the Isikoff piece:
It obviously killed Isikoff to have to clear the Bush inner circle of being the ones who first leaked Plame's identity because near the end of the Newsweek piece he still can't resist trashing the administration and Karl Rove and falling back to the media's template that the administration was out to smear Wilson.
Near the end of the article he says:
But officials at the White House also told reporters about Wilson's wife in an effort to discredit Wilson for his public attacks on Bush's handling of Iraq intelligence. Karl Rove confirmed to Novak that Wilson's wife worked at the CIA, and days later offered the same information to Time reporter Matt Cooper.
Isikoff fails to mention that Novak says he's the one who initiated the call to Rove, Rove didn't call him, that the initial subject matter was on some policy issue besides Iraq and that Novak then brought up Plame's name as being the one who sent Joe Wilson to Niger. All Rove
said was "Oh you heard that too?" Rove never even
brought up Plame or her name! And Novak has said he obtained Plame's name from "Who's Who."
Hitchens has been thoroughly and humiliatingly - for his critics - vindicated in this matter. If he repeated this column every issue for a year it still wouldn't come close to offsetting the incredible smear campaign that surrounded this disclosure, and whose proponents will continue without the slightest twinge of conscience long after every one of their claims has been disproven. Kudos to Hitchens.
Over here...you have to read this one.
The thing is, Pissikof and Cornhole intended this book to be a validation of the story. Instead, it has only served to confirm that Joe Wilson is a partisan hack. Not to worry, it will be circle the wagons time at the MSM before you know it.
What gets me is that no one, ever, has questioned what Joe Wilson was going to NIGER for in the first place.
Joe Wilson owns a company that was in NIGER doing business.
He went there to handle a BIG 'deal' they had in the works.
What does Joe's company do?
They are a BROKER for the PRESIDENT OF NIGER.
They are a BROKER for sales of YELLOWCAKE ORE.
They were brokering a deal between the PRESIDENT of NIGER and SADDAM.
Since that would have been 'illegal', they sold the ore to LIBYA. (and LIBYA sold it to.........????)
Joe came back and reported that there were no 'direct' sales of ORE to SADDAM.
YEP. Joe Wilson was the one to have spy for the CIA on the subject of SALES of YELLOWCAKE, because that is what his company is in the business of.
AND, he did this twice. Once during CLINTON'S Admin., and once during BUSH's.
AND, he got away with it.
Bump for later...
Another excellent piece by Hitchens.
What I haven't read and/or heard yet is Fitzgerald being fired.
Fitzgerald has wasted years and hundreds of thousands of taxpayers' dollars enriching himself and his subordinates on an "investigation" that any beat cop in America could have solved in a day.
Valerie Plame, at the time, was nothing more than a CIA desk jockey.
A CIA employee NOT covered by anonymity protection.
Fitzgerald should run for District Attorney ... of Bolder.
I guess Judith Miller, the NYT reporter that did time rather than reveal her sources, can finally write that tell-all book. I'd especially like to read about how she was pressured by NYT mucky-mucks to falsely accuse Rove, Cheney, Bush, whoever for "outing Plame".