I know your take on this is popular here, but I don't buy it. On CNN either the DAY OF his NYT editorial or the DAY AFTER (just can't recall which), he stated flatly that Cheney DID NOT send him, that the CIA did. How exactly that is intended to create a mistaken impression that Cheney sent him is completely lost on me.
No, I think the "he said Cheney sent him" meme is a red herring flogged by Wilson's most adamant critics. Which is baffling to me, because there are other, more substantive lines of attack. Kristof's language was certainly less than precise, but there isn't any reason to think he was simply transcribing Wilson's words. Kristof is a fairly precise writer, and is not just a transcriptionist.
What baffles me more than anything else is that we apparently had an entire WH team, including the Deputy NSA and various high-ranking staffers, spending the coin of the realm and not insubstantial time and effort responding to an op-ed piece by a former State employee that no one had ever heard of before. By elevating Wilson's importance far beyond what it would have been if they ignored him, the WH and their allies who don't know when to put down the megaphone created the myth that is Joe Wilson.
I will say this, though - based on the recent photos, Valerie is quite hot.
Well, he has a PR firm representing him, and hangs out with a whole group of lefty networkers. Yeah, I'd say he has a team.
I didn't hear that interview that you did. Makes sense that the difference in phrasing would make an impact on you, and why you worked so hard to clarify that point.
But given that he said Cheney didn't send him, do you think he's deliberately jerking aorund the administration, trying to create a scandal where there is just a regular, non-nefarious effort to correct the record and clarify a confusing situation?
Do you think the administration was 'out to get him' and worse, to do it by going after his wife?
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