Posted on 06/29/2004 10:16:11 PM PDT by rwfromkansas
That guy has the most sanctimonious smug attitude I've ever seen. Since when is he a celebrity?
George W. Bush will be reelected by a margin of at least ten per cent
Saw it too.
I thought it was particularly funny, in that the Yellow Cake (Uranium) from Niger is actually turning out to be TRUE! In the last part of the interview, Wilson was asked if he thought President Bush was going to be re-elected and he said "Not if I have anything to do with it". Which as we all know was his "agenda" all along.
Letterman ACTS like he is just poking fun at the President EVERY night, but he has NEVER done this to a President EVER.
He doesn't make just ONE joke about the President, he makes SEVERAL. He practically FROTHS at the mouth over President Bush!!
If he was just making political jokes, why aren't there as many about Kerry? Why aren't his jokes "balanced" between the two? The good Lord knows Kerry has a TON of ammo for him to use! Though I would wager Kerry doesn't get mentioned EVERY night of every week.
No, it is blatantly obvious that Letterman is trying to make President Bush look stupid, and to diminish his stature.
I watch him long enough to see what he is doing. When he had Wilson on, I watched because I KNEW who Wilson was. Wilson doesn't "fit" the category of a late night COMIC venue. So it was again BLATANTLY obvious what Lettermans agenda was.
I thought he was going to start making out with Michael Moore. The audience hardly clapped, but Letterman acted like he was some kind of Icon, a god or something. It was so hilarious! Letterman has made his bias known. He's a fool!
Like I said, I watch certain guests now, then he is off. I watch Leno, because he has stated he will not show a bias politically. Smart thing. The minute he does, he's done too.
One thing we can do, is demand that EQUAL TIME BE GIVEN FOR CANDIDATES if we think Letterman is campaigning. USING his show as a political forum.
We could lodge complaints to the FCC, or to APAC (?) (The Federal Elections governing board, my mind just went blank on it). Just a thought. They could start watching to see if it looks as though he is using his show as a campaign forum for Kerry. It is so obvious that I think he'd get a warning letter if nothing else!
posted to: alnick; Brian Allen; BushisTheMan; Calvin Locke; CatAtomic; DemsAreAllOnCrack; earlyamerican; JLO; jmstein7; kenth; L.N. Smithee; MonroeDNA; martin_fierro; NavySEAL F-16; oldironsides; Redfeather; RightthinkinAmerican; rwfromkansas; sarasota; swilhelm73; ValerieUSA; Windsong; ZULUWhite House Calm Before CIA Leak DeadlineLate into Friday night, the White House press office sifted through thousands of phone messages dating back to February 2002 and beyond, seeking potential contacts between administration officials and journalists who were the subject of the memo from White House counsel Alberto R. Gonzales: syndicated columnist Robert Novak; Newsday's Washington bureau chief, Timothy M. Phelps; and Knut Royce, a Newsday staff writer. Investigators are trying to determine who leaked to the three journalists the identity of Valerie Plame, a CIA operations officer... [and] the name of the CIA front company she used as a cover. The company's identity appears in Federal Election Commission records because the CIA operative, using her married name Valerie E. Wilson, contributed $1,000 to Al Gore's presidential primary campaign in 1999. Her husband contributed to both the Bush and Gore presidential campaigns. The company that appears in FEC records, Brewster-Jennings & Associates, had been a CIA front for Plame, according to The Washington Post.
by Scott LindlawBlack Leaders Urge Dan Rather Boycott over 'Buckwheat' CommentThe Rather-Buckwheat controversy began with the newsman's July 19 comments to nationally syndicated radio host Don Imus, where he explained that his CBS bosses caved in to pressure and overruled his news blackout on the Chandra Levy case.
"They got the willies. They got the Buckwheats," said Rather. "Their knees wobbled and we gave it up."
Since then, civil rights veteran Dick Gregory, former Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry and the Rev. Peterson, who heads up the Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny, have called on Rather to explain his remarks.
Black activist Kevin Martin, whose frequent appearances on the Fox News Channel have given him nationwide visibility, emphasized that the Rather boycott has nothing to do with money.
"Unlike other civil rights leaders who sometimes call for boycotts to fill their back pockets, we are only in this for mutual respect for the black community," he said.
"I want to know why the Congressional Black Caucus, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and Kweisi Mfume have turned their backs on the black community on this issue. Do they have so much canine loyalty to the Democratic Party that they would allow Dan Rather to basically slap us in the face?"
Silence on the Rather incident sends the message that African-Americans can be insulted with impugnity, Martin added, as long as the offender has the right political credentials.Time Retracts Anti-Bush Racial Smear"The article 'Look Away, Dixieland' [Jan. 27] stated that President George W. Bush 'quietly reinstated' a tradition of having the White House deliver a floral wreath to the Confederate Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery — a practice 'that his father had halted in 1990.' The story is wrong. First, the elder president Bush did not, as TIME reported, end the decades-old practice of the White House delivering a wreath to the Confederate Memorial; he changed the date on which the wreath is delivered from the day that some southern heritage groups commemorate Jefferson Davis's birthday to the federal Memorial Day holiday. Second, according to documents provided by the White House this week, the practice of delivering a wreath to the Confederate Memorial on Memorial Day continued under Bill Clinton as it does under George W. Bush."
Friday, Jan. 24, 2003
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/robertnovak/printrn20030714.shtml
Mission to Niger
Robert Novak
July 14, 2003
Editor's Note: Robert Novak wrote a column on Oct. 1, 2003 in response to the story that began to unfold three months after this column originally ran.
WASHINGTON -- The CIA's decision to send retired diplomat Joseph C. Wilson to Africa in February 2002 to investigate possible Iraqi purchases of uranium was made routinely at a low level without Director George Tenet's knowledge. Remarkably, this produced a political firestorm that has not yet subsided.
Wilson's report that an Iraqi purchase of uranium yellowcake from Niger was highly unlikely was regarded by the CIA as less than definitive, and it is doubtful Tenet ever saw it. Certainly, President Bush did not, prior to his 2003 State of the Union address, when he attributed reports of attempted uranium purchases to the British government. That the British relied on forged documents made Wilson's mission, nearly a year earlier, the basis of furious Democratic accusations of burying intelligence though the report was forgotten by the time the president spoke.
Reluctance at the White House to admit a mistake has led Democrats ever closer to saying the president lied the country into war. Even after a belated admission of error last Monday, finger-pointing between Bush administration agencies continued. Messages between Washington and the presidential entourage traveling in Africa hashed over the mission to Niger.
Wilson's mission was created after an early 2002 report by the Italian intelligence service about attempted uranium purchases from Niger, derived from forged documents prepared by what the CIA calls a "con man." This misinformation, peddled by Italian journalists, spread through the U.S. government. The White House, State Department and Pentagon, and not just Vice President Dick Cheney, asked the CIA to look into it.
That's where Joe Wilson came in. His first public notice had come in 1991 after 15 years as a Foreign Service officer when, as U.S. charge in Baghdad, he risked his life to shelter in the embassy some 800 Americans from Saddam Hussein's wrath. My partner Rowland Evans reported from the Iraqi capital in our column that Wilson showed "the stuff of heroism." President George H.W. Bush the next year named him ambassador to Gabon, and President Bill Clinton put him in charge of African affairs at the National Security Council until his retirement in 1998.
Wilson never worked for the CIA, but his wife, Valerie Plame, is an Agency operative on weapons of mass destruction. Two senior administration officials told me Wilson's wife suggested sending him to Niger to investigate the Italian report. The CIA says its counter-proliferation officials selected Wilson and asked his wife to contact him. "I will not answer any question about my wife," Wilson told me.
After eight days in the Niger capital of Niamey (where he once served), Wilson made an oral report in Langley that an Iraqi uranium purchase was "highly unlikely," though he also mentioned in passing that a 1988 Iraqi delegation tried to establish commercial contacts. CIA officials did not regard Wilson's intelligence as definitive, being based primarily on what the Niger officials told him and probably would have claimed under any circumstances. The CIA report of Wilson's briefing remains classified.
All this was forgotten until reporter Walter Pincus revealed in the Washington Post June 12 that an unnamed retired diplomat had given the CIA a negative report. Not until Wilson went public on July 6, however, did his finding ignite the firestorm.
During the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, Wilson had taken a measured public position -- viewing weapons of mass destruction as a danger but considering military action as a last resort. He has seemed much more critical of the administration since revealing his role in Niger. In the Washington Post July 6, he talked about the Bush team "misrepresenting the facts," asking: "What else are they lying about?"
After the White House admitted error, Wilson declined all television and radio interviews. "The story was never me," he told me, "it was always the statement in (Bush's) speech." The story, actually, is whether the administration deliberately ignored Wilson's advice, and that requires scrutinizing the CIA summary of what their envoy reported. The Agency never before has declassified that kind of information, but the White House would like it to do just that now -- in its and in the public's interest.
©2003 Creators Syndicate, Inc.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/robertnovak/rn20031001.shtml
The CIA leak
Robert Novak
October 1, 2003
WASHINGTON -- I had thought I never again would write about retired diplomat Joseph Wilson's CIA-employee wife, but feel constrained to do so now that repercussions of my July 14 column have reached the front pages of major newspapers and led off network news broadcasts. My role and the role of the Bush White House have been distorted and need explanation.
The leak now under Justice Department investigation is described by former Ambassador Wilson and critics of President Bush's Iraq policy as a reprehensible effort to silence them. To protect my own integrity and credibility, I would like to stress three points. First, I did not receive a planned leak. Second, the CIA never warned me that the disclosure of Wilson's wife working at the agency would endanger her or anybody else. Third, it was not much of a secret.
The current Justice investigation stems from a routine, mandated probe of all CIA leaks, but follows weeks of agitation. Wilson, after telling me in July that he would say nothing about his wife, has made investigation of the leak his life's work -- aided by the relentless Sen. Charles Schumer of New York. These efforts cannot be separated from the massive political assault on President Bush.
This story began July 6 when Wilson went public and identified himself as the retired diplomat who had reported negatively to the CIA in 2002 on alleged Iraq efforts to buy uranium yellowcake from Niger. I was curious why a high-ranking official in President Bill Clinton's National Security Council (NSC) was given this assignment. Wilson had become a vocal opponent of President Bush's policies in Iraq after contributing to Al Gore in the last election cycle and John Kerry in this one.
During a long conversation with a senior administration official, I asked why Wilson was assigned the mission to Niger. He said Wilson had been sent by the CIA's counterproliferation section at the suggestion of one of its employees, his wife. It was an offhand revelation from this official, who is no partisan gunslinger. When I called another official for confirmation, he said: "Oh, you know about it." The published report that somebody in the White House failed to plant this story with six reporters and finally found me as a willing pawn is simply untrue.
At the CIA, the official designated to talk to me denied that Wilson's wife had inspired his selection but said she was delegated to request his help. He asked me not to use her name, saying she probably never again will be given a foreign assignment but that exposure of her name might cause "difficulties" if she travels abroad. He never suggested to me that Wilson's wife or anybody else would be endangered. If he had, I would not have used her name. I used it in the sixth paragraph of my column because it looked like the missing explanation of an otherwise incredible choice by the CIA for its mission.
How big a secret was it? It was well known around Washington that Wilson's wife worked for the CIA. Republican activist Clifford May wrote Monday, in National Review Online, that he had been told of her identity by a non-government source before my column appeared and that it was common knowledge. Her name, Valerie Plame, was no secret either, appearing in Wilson's "Who's Who in America" entry.
A big question is her duties at Langley. I regret that I referred to her in my column as an "operative," a word I have lavished on hack politicians for more than 40 years. While the CIA refuses to publicly define her status, the official contact says she is "covered" -- working under the guise of another agency. However, an unofficial source at the Agency says she has been an analyst, not in covert operations.
The Justice Department investigation was not requested by CIA Director George Tenet. Any leak of classified information is routinely passed by the Agency to Justice, averaging one a week. This investigative request was made in July shortly after the column was published. Reported only last weekend, the request ignited anti-Bush furor.
©2003 Creators Syndicate, Inc.
I haven't watched Letterman in years. Not due to his politics, just had other things going. But, the last couple of years it seems Letterman has lost his mind, a requirement for being a democrat.
Recently I read he had Franken on, then Moore, whats-her-face the unfunny Korean comedienne, etc., etc. I suppose the better way of freeping him is to freep his advertisers.
How many times have you watched Letterman? "Full of foolishment"? Could you translate that into English? It sounds like you want to put him down, but have no basis, so you say, in so many words, "He's a big, stupid, stupidy!"
I have no problem with someone disagreeing with Letterman's politics, assuming he can prove Letterman is pushing a political agenda. (He constantly beat up on Clinton, and now he constantly beats up on Bush.) But to say that Letterman comes across as a simpleton suggests you're a liar who's never seen the show. (Sometimes he does a simpleton routine, but no one with half a brain would confuse that with his BEING a simpleton.) No one improvises more often, or to greater comedic effect than Letterman. By contrast, Jay Leno's audience is so pathetic, that he feels obligated to explain his jokes; I think you'd be much happier with him.
The Senate report has exposed Joe Wilson's lies. Will Letterman have him on again for a follow-up chat?
I agree, Letterman is painful to watch, talk about lack of Gravitas, he must have been struck by lightning, abducted by Aliens or raised by monkeys....unbelievable that he is even considered as an Entertainer....he is just another Fool, soon to wake up with the dog's fleas!!
George W. Bush will be reelected by a margin of at least ten per cent....I have been saying this for a while, also...now let us pray to get it done!
What did the Senate report say?
It says that Joseph Wilson "was specifically recommended for the mission by his wife, a CIA employee, contrary to what he has said publicly". The report also says that Wilson provided misleading information to the Washington Post last June when he said that the Niger intelligence was based on documents that had been forged.
Quoting from the report: "Committee staff asked how the former ambassador could have come to the conclusion that the 'dates were wrong and the names were wrong' when he had never seen the CIA reports and had no knowledge of what names and dates were in the reports." The US never got the documents in question until 8 months after Wilson's trip to Niger.
Yellow cake and the infamous 16 words from President Bush's speech were attacked day after day back then, but no mention of them now.
excerpt:
The panel found that Wilson's report, rather than debunking intelligence about purported uranium sales to Iraq, as he has said, bolstered the case for most intelligence analysts. And contrary to Wilson's assertions and even the government's previous statements, the CIA did not tell the White House it had qualms about the reliability of the Africa intelligence that made its way into 16 fateful words in President Bush's January 2003 State of the Union address.
Letterman hasn't even bothered to marry the mother of his child...he's a LOSER!!!!
thanks
bump to Freep them with the truth....
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