The Amici Brief (The MSM claim that Plame was outed 1990's)

In spite of current articles and editorials to the contrary, in March of this year, 36 major news organizations and professional reporters' groups (including CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, Reuters, The Associated Press, The Tribune Company, The Washington Post, The New York Press Club and The White House Corespondents) argued that NO CRIME had been committed in the Plame Leak case because, among other things, Valerie Plame's identity had previously been disclosed to both the Russians and the Cubans!

On March 23, 2005 these 36 "esteemed" news organizations and professional reporters' groups filed this linked legal motion which includes the following argument:

the power and influence of these mega-conglomerates is understated by counting them as 'six' because, in reality, these six are actually intertwined! They own stock in each other, they cooperate in joint media ventures, and among themselves they divide profits from some of the most widely viewed programs on television, cable and movies.

I don't even consider it necessary to prove that "the media" have interlocking directorates or any such thing. It is enough that their output is public knowledge:

If outlet A is putting out the story that Plame was undercover, outlet B knows it.

We all know (and therefore outlet B knows) that Plame was not covert in any meaningful sense.

The mere fact that outlet B does not blow the whistle on outlet A is sufficient to show collusion.

But the Plame-Wilson tempest is scarcely unique in the genre; the political hit on Bush by CBS's touting of forgeries as "federal documents" is of precisely the same genre. How different, really, is the fatuousness of the Plame-Wilson "outing" story from the fatuousness ofo CBS' claims that the forgeries cannot be proven to be fraudulent, and that CBS didn't express a political agenda when it took the Kerry line that the thirty-year-old difference in Kerry's and Bush's war records was more important than Kerry's and Bush's recent political performances? And how different are those two examples from journalism's infamous call of Florida for Gore while many polls in the state were still open - followed by journalism's vociferous attack on FNC for being the first to call the election right? How different all of these from the systematic denigration, from the very start of Operation Iraqi Freedom to the present day, of the efforts of our military personnel in Iraq?
It's as plain as the nose on your face that "objective journalism" is a cabal which openly self-selects - you get to be considered an "objective journalist" by all the rest of the members so long, and only so long, as you do not question the objectivity of any other member of the cabal.
It's all founded on the premise that nothing matters but PR - that the virtual reality which is only what journalism reports is all that matters. Essentially, a BIG LIE technique . . . "Liberalism" is simply the political implication of journalism's commercial imperative to attract attention for advertisers.
It may not be possible to prove that in a court of law beyond all cavail - but what is absolutely certain IMHO is that it cannot be disproved - and that the burden of proof properly rests on those who perpetrate such violations of the First Amendment as the Federal Election Commission and the Federal Communications Commission. Is it not for this reason, if for no other, that we require a firm majority of courageous justices on SCOTUS? For it SCOTUS will not vindicates our right to freedom of speech and press on the Internet at all times, nothing is more certain than that the media borg will assimilate the country unopposed.

But the Plame-Wilson tempest is scarcely unique in the genre; the political hit on Bush by CBS's touting of forgeries as "federal documents" is of precisely the same genre. How different, really, is the fatuousness of the Plame-Wilson "outing" story from the fatuousness of CBS' claims that the forgeries cannot be proven to be fraudulent, and that CBS didn't express a political agenda when it took the Kerry line that the thirty-year-old difference in Kerry's and Bush's war records was more important than Kerry's and Bush's recent political performances? And how different are those two examples from journalism's infamous call of Florida for Gore while many polls in the state were still open - followed by journalism's vociferous attack on FNC for being the first to call the election right? How different all of these from the systematic denigration, from the very start of Operation Iraqi Freedom to the present day, of the efforts of our military personnel in Iraq?

Great post............. and what do you think of the unrelentingly disgusting collusion of the media to avoid asking the question why Fitzgerald began his absurd press conference by talking about how bad a thing it was to "out" a CIA agent............ not an undercover one, but JUST a CIA agent.

Fitzgerald is a tool of the left too, as he (and the media) will not expose the CIA/French/Wilson connection.

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1508146/posts

Is Valerie Plame the new Deep Throat?

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1512059/posts

Is this the "French Connection" we were looking for?

bttt! Bush has had to fight two wars - the enemy within (RINOS included) and the enemy without. We need to have his back - we must not only not desert him, we must fight for, and with him and whoever is trust-worthy on his team.

"......the modus operandi of the Plame-Wilson affair reflects professional intelligence methods. For now, there are only questions, not answers. Maybe someone with the power to supboena and compel testimony under oath ought to be investigating. Whoever is guiding Joseph C. Wilson IV seems to specialize in dangerous intrigue. We have not seen the end of them yet." Excerpted from:

Joseph C. Wilson IV: The French Connection
The American Thinker ^ | 11-07-05 | James Lewis - Commentary & Analysis
Posted on 11/07/2005 9:40:00 AM EST by smoothsailing
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1517278/posts

The CIA Disinformation Campaign
American Spectator ^ | 11-08-05 | Jed Babbin - Commentary & Analysis
Posted on 11/08/2005 12:49:30 AM EST by smoothsailing
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1517839/posts

Joe Wilson's earlier mission to Niger
The American Thinker ^ | 11-07 05 | Clarice Feldman
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1517884/posts

Thomas Sowell: Irrelevant [RINO] Questions
Creator's Syndicate ^ | November 8, 2005 | Dr. Thomas Sowell
Posted on 11/08/2005 3:57:10 AM EST by RWR8189
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1517889/posts

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