If this references the "Joe Wilson's Entry in Who's Who..." which is Post #41 - there is no mention of the wife's occupation., just her name and date of birth.
Posted on 07/11/2006 2:06:27 PM PDT by blogblogginaway
Edited on 07/11/2006 2:56:48 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
BOB NOVAK, My Leak Case Testimony: 'I learned Valerie Plame's name from Joe Wilson's entry in 'Who's Who in America'... MORE Published reports that I took the Fifth Amendment, made a plea bargain with the prosecutors or was a prosecutorial target were all untrue... MORE... My primary source has not come forward to identify himself... Bill Harlow, the CIA public information officer who was my CIA source for the column confirming Mrs. Wilson's identity. I learned Valerie Plame's name from Joe Wilson's entry in 'Who's Who in America'... I answered questions using the names of Rove, Harlow and my primary source... I considered his wife's role in initiating Wilson's mission, later confirmed by the Senate Intelligence Committee, to be a previously undisclosed part of an important news story. I reported it on that basis.
FYI..WaPo's WSalter Pincus now on Hardball, semi-slamming Novak for going early to the grand jury while Judy Miller was in jail, and Matt Cooper faced jail..
David Schuster is backfilling madly..
Walter Pincus is an ass. Miller wanted to be the martyr. Libby had released her and Cooper to provide his name a whole year earlier. She just wanted meat for her book.
Neither link states that Wilson outed his wife.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1663955/posts
When Fitzgerald arrived, he had a third waiver in hand -- from Bill Harlow, the CIA public information officer who was my CIA source for the column confirming Mrs. Wilson's identity. I answered questions using the names of Rove, Harlow and my primary source.
You have a point.
btt
If this references the "Joe Wilson's Entry in Who's Who..." which is Post #41 - there is no mention of the wife's occupation., just her name and date of birth.
As recently as the late 1980s nearly 90 million people were watching the major network's evening newscasts. Just 5 or 6 years ago 30 million people watched the three major networks evening newscasts. Now the ratings show about 24 million people watch those newscasts. The number of people watching is getting smaller each year. Also the average age of the viewers to those newscasts are getting older. Older people are a creatures of habit. They have been watching the evening news for a long time.
You may recall that CBS got rid of Walter Cronkite when he was still fairly young. They replaced him with Rather and kept him until they had to fire him. They were afraid of losing the old people if they fired a 74 year old Rather.
Now that they have fired Rather thay have decided to go with a younger woman. But she can't be too young or they will lose all the old people. So they hired an over the hill news babe. She will not attract young people and old people will not like her either. NBC hired Brian Williams.. Anyone but me notice he is just like Brokaw but with out the speech impediment?
The case for full time news channels is it allows viewers to watch newscasts when they want to watch them.
NBC has 9 million viewers for their evening news, and another 4 million for the Today show.
But over a 24 hour news cycle FOX will reach 15 or 16 million people. The most watching at anyone time is 2.3 million but they are on 24 hours a day doing news.
Comparing the MSM newscasts with one news cast on FOX is not the real comparison of influence and people reached. The 60 million people that stopped watching the MSM evening newscasts went somewhere.
We can conclude that they just stopped careing about news, or that they are watching the news when they want to watch it.
I sure wonder. That scene, from Wilson's book, reads like one straight out of the Communists operatives play-book of the 30s.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I recall Novak having a copy of the Who's Who book or page with him the time he walked off the CNN set. Am I correct?
The "Wilson Outed His Wife" story is hyperbole.
Someone mentioned that "Wilson's wife" was the one who got him the Nigerian job. Novak verified it then went to Who's Who and got her actual name.
Novak has been saying that for two years.
Nothing new there.
Oh No--he is yet another Clintanoid I have lost track of. I like to keep them in my rear view mirror at all times.
Yeah, the whole World's lying to them now. It's all a big cabal. They're the only guardian of truth.
Ohboy!
This all reaffirms only one thing....that this whole story was and is a NON STORY.
Man... wouldn't you just hate to be Leopold and/or Pitt, right about now...? :)
Thank you! GOOD LUCK!! Did I hear you on Michael Medved?
Well, if you feel there is nothing new here...then you don't have to stay on this thread.
That makes sense. Somebody says "Wilson's wife recommended him for the job, she works for the CIA." Novak looks up Wilson in Who's Who and learns her name. He calls Harlow for confirmation and is given the info because Plame is a desk jocky.
Seems pretty much like Investigative Journalism 101.
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Which is pretty much what Novak has been saying from the beginning.
That's a good point about the 24 hour news cycle and how many people FNC reaches; I'll sleep better tonight remembering that! LOL
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