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Valerie Plame, Nude! [Was today's Slate article inspired by a FR poster?]
Slate ^ | Wednesday, July 6, 2005 | Timothy Noah

Posted on 07/06/2005 10:19:59 AM PDT by summer

Valerie Plame, Nude!

Well, without sunglasses and a scarf, anyway.


By Timothy Noah, Slate

Posted Wednesday, July 6, 2005, at 7:40 AM PT


Plame reveals herself in the madding media
crowd. [3rd photo down, on right]


Valerie Plame's career in the Central Intelligence Agency was destroyed by whoever leaked her name to Robert Novak, and that is a terrible wrong. If we ever find out who the leaker is, the president must fire him. (Or them.) That said, I'm starting to weary of the story line that Plame avoids the media spotlight. "She has guarded her privacy" and "shunned publicity," Scott Shane wrote in the July 5 New York Times. That was true once, but it isn't true now. Shane pointed out a glaring exception late in 2003, when Plame "posed with her husband for a Vanity Fair photographer, wearing sunglasses and with a scarf over her blond hair." On Jan. 5, 2004, her husband, Joe Wilson, was quoted telling Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post that there was no remaining national-security reason to continue hiding Plame's face, since her cover was "completely blown." Then why the scarf and sunglasses? "She had to be clothed as generic blonde in order to deal with the genuine concern that some wacko on the street might easily identify her," Wilson explained. "It was just in the interest of personal security." Wilson repeated the need for this precaution in his memoir, The Politics of Truth:

She had already been described as the beautiful blond that she is, and her cover had long since been blown, so the only concern remaining was whether strangers would be able to use a photo to recognize her in public. With proper precautions taken, I saw no reason to deprive ourselves of the pleasure of being photographed together as the happily married couple that we are.

Fair enough. But on Page 70 of the July 2005 Vanity Fair—the one with Nicole Kidman on the cover and Mark Felt's Deep Throat confession inside—there's a photograph of the happy couple at Vanity Fair's party celebrating the Tribeca Film Festival. No scarf and no sunglasses. Plame, seated, is smiling and leaning into the camera. If you're a wacko on the street, please avert your eyes.


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To: higgmeister

Re your post #115 - also see post #175.


181 posted on 07/07/2005 5:36:24 AM PDT by summer
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To: Dashing Dasher

I guess you guys missed me.


182 posted on 07/07/2005 6:33:46 AM PDT by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (People too weak to follow their own dreams, will always find a way to discourage yours.)
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To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick; pissant

We always miss you!

Psssttt... we can't chat on this thread. Winter gets angry.

Nothing to see here - let's just move along.

;-X


183 posted on 07/07/2005 6:46:18 AM PDT by Dashing Dasher (I can resist everything except temptation. -- Oscar Wilde.)
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To: Rose of Sharn

Thank you sir, may I have another!


184 posted on 07/07/2005 8:07:44 AM PDT by SomebodyWakeUpHicks
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To: summer
Thanks for the clarification! Brilliant painting, interesting artist.
185 posted on 07/07/2005 8:45:26 AM PDT by AnnaZ (><>Read Hebrews 11<><)
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To: motormouth

Over here for the original.


187 posted on 07/08/2005 11:03:02 AM PDT by Dashing Dasher (I drink, therefore I am.)
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To: Dashing Dasher

Okay...they have nice...large helmets too LOL


188 posted on 07/08/2005 11:04:05 AM PDT by motormouth
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To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick

Here is the original.


189 posted on 07/08/2005 1:27:23 PM PDT by Dashing Dasher (I am, therefore I drink/think? Is it Friday yet?)
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To: Dashing Dasher

Now that is an Image!!!


190 posted on 07/08/2005 1:28:46 PM PDT by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (People too weak to follow their own dreams, will always find a way to discourage yours.)
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To: Dashing Dasher

They are always happy to see her.


192 posted on 07/08/2005 1:55:53 PM PDT by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (People too weak to follow their own dreams, will always find a way to discourage yours.)
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To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick

Well, I don't have to ask WHY those posts were removed!

:-o

Did they do that on PURPOSE??


193 posted on 07/08/2005 2:01:49 PM PDT by bannie (The government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.)
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To: bannie
RotRo someone hit the abuse button. Not me.
194 posted on 07/08/2005 2:06:22 PM PDT by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (People too weak to follow their own dreams, will always find a way to discourage yours.)
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To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick; bannie

Someone doesn't appreciate our humor - even over here in the SBR!?

Oh well....

sniffle.


195 posted on 07/08/2005 2:48:32 PM PDT by Dashing Dasher (Summer isn't my favorite season.)
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To: Dashing Dasher

I was amazed! I wanted to know if those guys did that INTENTIONALLY? Were those clothes selected for their...er...effect???


196 posted on 07/08/2005 2:52:16 PM PDT by bannie (The government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.)
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To: bannie

I still have them and can share them with you...


197 posted on 07/08/2005 2:56:15 PM PDT by Dashing Dasher (Summer isn't my favorite season.)
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To: Dashing Dasher

I'm one lucky old lady!!!!

LOL

thank you.

:-o


198 posted on 07/08/2005 3:10:41 PM PDT by bannie (The government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.)
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To: bannie

53?

That ain't old!


199 posted on 07/08/2005 5:59:35 PM PDT by Dashing Dasher (Summer isn't my favorite season.)
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To: Dashing Dasher

Well, I like it; but it ain't spring-chickenish!


200 posted on 07/08/2005 8:19:43 PM PDT by bannie (The government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.)
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