Mark Steyn: How a serial liar suckered Dems and the media

Chicago Sun-Times ^ | 07/18/04 | Mark Steyn

[Pokey78]

[Diogenesis]

Jamie S Gorelick
Vice Chair
Fannie Mae
$2,000 John Kerry


Jamie Gorelick
Partner
Wilmer Cutler and Pickering
$2,000 Dick Gephardt


Jamie Gorelick
Attorney
Wilmer Cutler & Pickering
$1,000 Wesley Clark

[Texas Eagle]

I hope Mark Steyn is on President Bush's ping list.

[tet68]

An ambassador, in Sir Henry Wootton's famous dictum, is a good man sent abroad to lie for his country. This ambassador came home to lie to his. And the Dems and the media helped him do it.

Yow!

Steyn Bump

[jackbill]

According to C-SPAN this morning, Yellowcake Joe is scheduled to be on Wolf Blitzer's Late Edition tomorrow (Sunday). Should/could be interesting.

[SeeRushToldU_So]

I wonder if liar Joe Wilson can be prosecuted?

[Paul_B]

The gloves are off. I pray this piece of clarity gets the widest possible exposure. Third sentence needs grammatical correction, though.

WTG, Mark.
Thanks, Pokey.

[facedown]

BTTT

[Paul_B]

I hope Bush is on Steyn's ping list, if Steyn can't be on Bush's speechwriting payroll.

[Indy Pendance]

All the liars should be prosecuted. They are messing with our national security.

[laredo44]

Wilson, the media, Democrats: truly unconscionable. And that's the very best that can be said about them.

[sirchtruth]

Will someone please point out EXACTLY what it was J. Wilson lied about? With the dems you have to be precise because you know how they will parse wordage!

[PigRigger]

"Wilson's Web site, restorehonesty.com, was still wholly paid for by Kerry's presidential campaign..."

This alone, in light of the latest reports vindicating the President, should warrant further review by the press.

How can anyone today deny that media bias exists?

[Bob]

I wonder if liar Joe Wilson can be prosecuted?

IANAL but I'd think that his sworn testimony to the 9-11 commission circus and the Senate Intelligence Committee should be sufficient grounds for a perjury prosecution.

[aculeus]

For all [Kerry's] claims to be Monsieur Sophisticate, there's something hicky and parochial in his embrace of an obvious nutcake for passing partisan advantage.

Zing ping.

[M Kehoe]

Yellowcake Joe is scheduled to be on Wolf Blitzer's Late Edition tomorrow (Sunday).

That should be very interesting...if "Say it ain't so, Joe" shows up.

5.56mm

[Boazo]

[Diogenesis]

Along the Yellowcake Palme-Wilson-Nepotism-Axis:
Kerry's Operative, Wilson: "I met and married this CIA agent next to me,
who first exposed her CIA background and revealed her assets to me on our second hot date.
But then, like my boss John Kerry, she did not."

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[Harpo Speaks]

Another typically great Styne column. My only quibble is with the headline...suckered the Dems? Suckered the media? BS. Wilson, the Dems and the media all knew what they were doing. The only people being played for suckers were the American people and the Republicans. If you ask me, the Republicans are still acting like suckers. Why aren't they raising holy hell about this? This Sunday on the morning news shows, why doesn't every Republican guest directly ask the host why Joe Wilson isn't on to explain himself and why no nightly newscast except for NBC has mentioned Wilson's lies? I'll tell you why...because Republicans are suckers, stuck on defense when they should be on offence.