Posted on 07/12/2006 5:28:12 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
by Mark Finkelstein
July 12, 2006 - 20:09
Was it Robert Novak who jolted aficionados of the vendetta-against-Joe-Wilson conspiracy theory, or was the message coming from . . . a Higher Authority? You be the judge, after having a look at the screen capture from this evening's Special Report with Brit Hume on FNC. Yes, that's a lightning bolt. No, it wasn't photo-shopped - it's the real thing.
The bolt hit while the panel was discussing the implications of the just-aired interview of Bob Novak by Brit Hume. Hume questioned Novak about his disclosure of Valerie Plame's employment by the CIA, in the course of reporting that it was she who had recommended her husband, Ambassador Joe Wilson, be sent to Niger to look into reports that Saddam Hussein had been looking to acquire uranium for purposes of constructing nuclear weapons.
There's no doubt that Novak's words were a devastating bolt to those who had spun the theory that the White House had intentionally leaked Plames' identity to Novak as retribution on Wilson for his criticism of the president's Iraq policy. For Novak could not have been much more unequivocal in stating this was not the case.
Brit: "The allegation has grown . . . this was part of a campaign by the Bush administration to discredit Joe Wilson after he wrote a column in the New York Times critical of the administration in Iraq . . . You're the person that's at the point of all this. What is your view on whether there was a campaign underway to discredit Wilson?"
Novak: "I saw no such campaign. Nobody in the administration ever said anything critical about Wilson to me. And my column was not critical of Wilson. The information came out to me in the course of an interview by a person who was not, believe me, not in the business of playing political dirty tricks. I initiated the call to Karl Rove [for confirmation]. We talked about Joe Wilson's wife for maybe 20 seconds in the course of the conversation, which I took as a confirmation."
So there it is. Oh, I suppose there will be some bitter-enders clinging to their vendetta theories. But there's no doubt, and we produce the proof here, that's it been a real shock to their system!
Special Report with Brit Hume/NewsBusters zap to Today show list!
Does this prove that Zott's come from a higher power and that He's a Freeper???
heheheheheh ZOT hehehehehehehe ;-)
That's a ZOT alright!
LOL--looks like it's hitting Maura!
LOL. I'll bet that happened just as Mara was saying that this didn't mean that there wasn't some kind of vendetta against Wilson by the White House.
LOL...I'll bet we won't see the Dem pundits lining up to discuss this.
Looks like a zot to me.
LOL...pictures speak many times MUCH LOUDER that anything else.
Wow! Great catch. I thought I saw lightening - wasn't sure until you confirmed it.
ping
ping!
And that wasn't just business volts but instantaneous high ampere zottage.
Looks like the bolt is going right into Mara Liasson's head.... she must have said some liberal claptrap about "still looking for the REAL killers, er leakers"
LOL!!! That's too good!
***Does this prove that Zott's come from a higher power and that He's a Freeper???***
You NEEDED proof?
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