Posted on 11/01/2005 12:58:06 PM PST by fight_truth_decay
Read: Joe Wilson: A Man On A Mission In A Media Vehicle at MRC's NewsBusters.org
But he'll go the other way next time he interviews Wilson.
The real absurdity is if his wife was a secret CIA official and sent him on a mission, WHY would she let him go on a national speaking tour blabbing the whole thing to undermine US policy? Plus letting him lie about it. She must be an absolutely irresponsible, despicable person.
I just can't get over all this missing teh forest for teh trees. Blitzer is asking him "How well was she known before your trip to Niger?" Somebody should just say "Come on! This is your own damn wife! She sent you on the mission and then let you go on every news show and college campus lying about it. How could she possibly expect her role to remain secret? Instead, they let her off scott free. I want her fired.
In the pic it looks like they have had to use extra pancake makeup on Wilson to soak up the sweat beads on his forehead.
Gonna be fun.
Ah, she's wearing her "serious" glasses again. LOL
"Ah, she's wearing her "serious" glasses again. LOL"
And PANTS!! She must really be taking this seriously!!
"Would you say the President is a moron?"
"Are you disappointed that the country elected such a corrupt administration?"
"Women and children are obviously going to suffer. Do you think the president cares?"
"The American people clearly wish John Kerry had been elected. Would we be better off if that had happened?"
"Some people say the press is blatantly biased. What makes those people think their opinion matters?"
I'm almost as sick of Wilson as I am of Sheehan.
What a creep.
Good post on MRC's NewsBusters as I referenced above.
Joe Wilson: A Man On A Mission In A Media Vehicle
Posted by Mithridate Ombud on November 1, 2005 - 12:08.
Robert Scheer writes for the LA Times:
[Judith Miller] knew early on that Libby was using the media to punish former U.S. Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV for exposing President Bush's false claim that Iraq sought nuclear material from the African nation of Niger.
The words I want to examine here are "punish" and "false claim". If there was information given to a reporter, it wasn't to punish Joe Wilson, it was to expose him. By the time he went to Niger, he had a long history of not just being against the war, but being against a regime change in Iraq. This was no impartial panel to examine evidence. This was one guy going over there without even being paid, lying about who sent him [Cheney], to [his words mind you] "drink sweet tea and meet with people." Did he look at spy sat imagery? No. Did he examine hardware with a Geiger counter? No. Did he meet with CIA HUMINT informants? No. He simply asked a dozen people if they were selling yellowcake to Saddam. What would you answer if the U.S. asked you that?
And in the end, Joe Wilson didn't even say it definitely didn't happen. His finding was "that it was highly doubtful that any such transaction had ever taken place." Do you read that caveat in newspaper articles?
Meanwhile, the IAEA, an organization that does more than ask people questions, determined that yellowcake was found in scrap metal originating from Iraq. What does Joe Wilson have to say about that?
The Butler Review also found something Joe Wilson apparently missed:
The report indicated that there was enough intelligence to make a “well-founded” judgment that Saddam Hussein was seeking, perhaps as late as 2002, to obtain uranium illegally from Niger and the Democratic Republic of Congo (6.4 para. 499). In particular, referring to a 1999 visit of Iraqi officials to Niger, the report states (6.4 para. 503): “The British government had intelligence from several different sources indicating that this visit was for the purpose of acquiring uranium. Since uranium constitutes almost three-quarters of Niger's exports, the intelligence was credible.”
Back to the claim that Bush made a "false claim". Given that we have intelligence and physical evidence that contradict Joe Wilson, as well as a solid foundation for Joe Wilson's motive, what is this "false claim" Bush made based on?
"INTERNATIONAL SPY MUSEUM'? He actually said the picture could end up in a spy museum? sounds like something from scrappleface.. this guy is a phony.
So if you ever wanted an Exhibit A example of how media bias is carried out, here it is. Couric starts of in this line of questioning by making it seem that she is being fair and unbiased and asking the tough questions ....... and look what happens. At the end of these questions, does she actually follow any of them up? Of course not, they are all collectively dropped like a hot potato and Wilson instead was offered up another softball to smear the WH. A not too subtle slick sleight of hand interview was pulled off here, Katie. And did everybody notice that Wilson did not take the opportunity to correct all these 'misconceptions' and 'suggestions' that Couric rhetorically outlined? Joe Wilson is a confirmed liar through and through and yet somehow Couric couldn't have tried harder to make it seem like she was being oh so sensitive to his ‘terrible encounter with the dastardly deeds by the White House’ (to satisfy the leftist audience) while giving the pretense of being ‘the tough interviewer in the controversial areas’, (to make sure the right can’t charge her with a lopsided bias). What a joke – the transparency couldn't’t have been clearer. The whole interview stunk of collusion, too much advance preparation on both the interviewer and interviewee’s part to ‘get exactly the right message out’. Anybody with half a brain could figure this one out. (The exact opposite of what she tried to in the Louis Freeh interview by the way.) Oh well, it was just another Rather moment – this time at NBC.
Great article - I don't trust Blitzer but I am glad he made all these important points that the rest of America that doesn't watch Fox needed to hear.
Wilson: "I think it's a great picture. I think someday you will, too."
Blitzer: "It's a great picture. But I mean the fact that-" Wilson: "I think someday it, too, will be in the International Spy Museum."
What a buffoon!
Dear Democrat Senator Scumbags;
Since the same intelligence used by Bill Clinton and EVERY sitting Democrat Senator in 1998 to justify bombing Iraq was part of the Bush Admins Intelligence used in 2003, please explain to me how "Bush lied" and YOU ALL did NOT?
If anyone LIED to us it was Bill Clinton and the Democrat Leadership when they developed this Intelligence in 1998. When can we expect the letters of resignation from ever member of the Democrat Senate Leadership over this "lie"?
Yep - and the fact that he said that tells me he was so enchanted by it all that he definately introduced her as his 'CIA wife' at parties. That interview was a gift to a savy attorney.
That part of the exchange is bizarre.
>Blitzer: "So you don't have any regrets about the Vanity Fair picture?"
>Wilson: "I think it's a great picture. I think someday you will, too."
>Blitzer: "It's a great picture. But I mean the fact that-"
>Wilson: "I think someday it, too, will be in the International Spy Museum."
Why do I hear Carly Simon singing in the background? The scarf....the underworld spy...and now this nonsense from Wilson. He's actually trying to intimate that--wink wink nod nod--there's a very good spy-type reason that we did this and I'd love to tell you but, y'know how it is in the spy game. Someday you'll understand.
Scratch the Carly Simon song...Wilson's the used car salesman in "True Lies."
Bill Paxton played the part of Simon the used car salesman.
We'll have to start calling him Joe "Simon" Wilson.
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