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Wilson/Plame Conspiracy Buffs Zapped!
Special Report with Brit Hume/NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

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!


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: brithume; cialeak; fnc; joewilson; karlrove; lightning; robertnovak; valerieplame
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Untouched screen capture from panel discussion of Novak/Hume interview.


1 posted on 07/12/2006 5:28:15 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; netmilsmom; Diogenesis; YaYa123; MEG33; ...

Special Report with Brit Hume/NewsBusters zap to Today show list!


2 posted on 07/12/2006 5:28:54 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Watching the Today Show Since 2002 So You Don't Have To.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
LOL ..I listened did not watch this segment and Myra (sp) needed a ZAP.
3 posted on 07/12/2006 5:29:59 PM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Does this prove that Zott's come from a higher power and that He's a Freeper???


4 posted on 07/12/2006 5:31:39 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

heheheheheh ZOT hehehehehehehe ;-)


5 posted on 07/12/2006 5:31:50 PM PDT by tiredoflaundry (The right wants victory, the left wants to surrender. It's that simple.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

That's a ZOT alright!


6 posted on 07/12/2006 5:32:04 PM PDT by Incorrigible (If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
That Bolt Hit The HQ of Democratic Underground and Jason Leopold's Vagina........
7 posted on 07/12/2006 5:32:27 PM PDT by cmsgop (It's "BOOTY TIME, BOOTY TIME" ARCROSS THE USA , "BOOTY TIME, BOOTY TIME".......)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

LOL--looks like it's hitting Maura!


8 posted on 07/12/2006 5:33:26 PM PDT by MizSterious (Anonymous sources often means "the voices in my head told me.")
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

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.


9 posted on 07/12/2006 5:34:23 PM PDT by Bahbah (Democrat Motto: Why not the worst)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

LOL...I'll bet we won't see the Dem pundits lining up to discuss this.


10 posted on 07/12/2006 5:35:24 PM PDT by jazusamo (DIANA IREY for Congress, PA 12th District: Retire murtha.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Looks like a zot to me.


11 posted on 07/12/2006 5:39:35 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (The Internet is the samizdat of liberty..)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

LOL...pictures speak many times MUCH LOUDER that anything else.


12 posted on 07/12/2006 5:39:42 PM PDT by shield (A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand; but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc. 10:2)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Wow! Great catch. I thought I saw lightening - wasn't sure until you confirmed it.


13 posted on 07/12/2006 5:40:10 PM PDT by SuzyQue
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To: shield; Howlin

ping


14 posted on 07/12/2006 5:40:13 PM PDT by shield (A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand; but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc. 10:2)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
But where's Rove being frog marched out of the White House...?

I wonder how long until the liberals figure out the Scooter they got for Fitzmas doesn't have any wheels?
15 posted on 07/12/2006 5:41:13 PM PDT by kingu (Yeah, I'll vote in 2006, just as soon as a party comes along who listens.)
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To: Txsleuth; defconw; Bahbah; Mo1; AliVeritas; mware; saveliberty

ping!


16 posted on 07/12/2006 5:41:45 PM PDT by tiredoflaundry (The right wants victory, the left wants to surrender. It's that simple.)
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To: cmsgop

And that wasn't just business volts but instantaneous high ampere zottage.


17 posted on 07/12/2006 5:44:13 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

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"


18 posted on 07/12/2006 5:49:29 PM PDT by Enchante (Keller & Sulzberger: Forget elections, WE are the self-appointed judges of everything)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

LOL!!! That's too good!


19 posted on 07/12/2006 5:50:23 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: SandRat

***Does this prove that Zott's come from a higher power and that He's a Freeper???***

You NEEDED proof?


20 posted on 07/12/2006 5:50:42 PM PDT by kitkat (The first step down to hell is to deny the existence of evil.)
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