Plaming Out: Joe Wilson Jumps The Shark (FONZ Alert!)

American Spectator ^ | 7-14-06 | Jeffrey Lord

[smoothsailing]

In TV-land the moment is infamous.

One of the stars of the longtime hit TV series Happy Days, Arthur "The Fonz" Fonzerelli, played by Henry Winkler, is made to do something by the show's writers that was clearly designed to save the fading series from sinking ratings.

[CyberAnt]

Well .. that's encouraging.

My concern is the high profile the dems will place on this - making it a frontpage story in the drive-by .. and that alone can lure some judges into allowing such a fiasco to continue. 15 minutes of fame is alluring!

[Just mythoughts]

LOL although we are having to pay a price for the insanity of these leftists. We are at war and I resent the .ell out of their search and destroy political games, and at minimum giving morale boosts to these lunatic terrorists.

[Dolphy]

I'll throw out "dame" as the perfect rhyme, especially considering that dreadful Vanity Fair picture.

[Carry_Okie]

Historical revisionism. You neglect to note the difference between the UN of the early 1950s and what the UN became during decolonialization.

Horse pucky. The vast majority of the American delegates to the UN Convention in San Francisco were communists.

Explain why we were able to achieve strategic surprise at Inchon?

Because MacArthur figured out the game and refused to tell Truman. That's why he was fired.

[daybreakcoming]

A hearty LOL. Rove. What a guy!
Someone should keep a tally of which one gets blamed the most - the President or Karl Rove.
Thank you for posting this.

[STARWISE]

You hooked up with a loser
and he plots your shallow game

[jazusamo]

Both you and the poster are correct but the radical, looney left will continue to pull these crazy stunts in order to try to impugn President Bush or anyone connected to his administration.

[bandleader]

How would he know?He's NEVER read it!

[maica]

one day at a Capitol Hill policy meeting

*****

I don't know about this meeting. Was it with Nancy and Harry, or Maxine and Barbara Lee and other California whackos? I truly believe that they get their news from the Huffington Post and Daily Kos, and are experiencing an alternate reality.

[Just mythoughts]

Well I heard Brit Hume say that Wilson was upon on Capitol Hill for a Democratic policy meeting yesterday and would be announcing the civil law suit etc..... I was outside most of yesterday and so did not learn about this until I was watching Hume...


I did not hear Brit say just who was at the 'liberal' (my word) policy meeting on Capitol Hill, I sure would like to know the who's who of that meeting.

[OKSooner]

"Truman was a traitor to his country, routing every order during the Korean War through the UN, and the therewith the Russian military attache, who relayed them to the North Koreans."

I'm inclined to believe this, but I could use a bit more background on it, particularly WHY?

[Lancey Howard]

That isn't exactly a new revelation. Novak has been saying he got her name from Who's Who for years.

No, he didn't, although it was widely speculated. Novak has been coy from the beginning, and you better believe that Wilson and the rats wanted it to be a big Bush insider who gave Novak the name "Valerie Plame". But instead it turns out it was Wilson himself who gave Novak the name via his vanity entry in "Who's Who". LOL, what a maroon!

"This week, after years of Fitzgerald's exhaustive probing into journalists' confidential sources, the truth finally has come out about who told Novak the name of Wilson's wife. According to Novak's account, no one told him Valerie Plame's name. He learned it from her husband's entry in “Who's Who in America.”" - - The San Diego Union-Tribune | July 14, 2006 | Editorial

[Albertafriend]

Alot of people keep referring to how much Wilson made from his book, The Politics of "Truth". Last summer I came across a little article about how well that book actually did --again showing up Wilson's habit of lying about everything. My husband had seen him on with Matthews where he was asked about how book sales were going and his answer was "Good and they're going to get better." I tried to find the transcript but couldn't. Anyway here is the article that I did find:

It's from an article titled "Quest for Best Seller means Lots of Returned Books", June 3, 2005. (I'm sorry, I meant to write down the name of the author but I forgot. He's from the Wall Street Journal.)

"Even mid-size publishers sometimes reach for the brass ring.In April 2004, Avalon publishing Group Inc. issued "The Politics of Truth:Inside the Lies that led to War and Betrayed my Wife's CIA Identity," by former US Ambassador Joseph Wilson. At the time books about politics were selling well, and Avalon, eager to deliver as many copies as quickly as possible, printed a 100,000. Shortly before the publication date, April 30, it went back to the presses for an additional 25,000.
Just as the book was hitting the best-seller lists, public attention switched to allegations of abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison. Although "The Politics of Truth" enjoyed good sales, Charles Winton, Avalon's CEO, says he's now sitting on 60,000 copies, including many that have been returned. The second printing cost at least $60,000, he says, none of which has yet recouped. Mr. Winton says he had to gamble: "You sell a lot of books, but there's also a lot of waste."

www.postgazette.com/pg/05154/515469.stm

So basically only slightly more than half of the books printed were sold and I would guess that a lot of those are sitting on dusty shelves in libraries. I wonder if the new publisher for Val's book knows this.

[Albertafriend]

See my post to Howlin #233.

[Just mythoughts]

Interesting post, wonder if donners to the legal fund will receive signed copies of these dust collectors???

[soccermom]

I can't put up a link to it because it has been archived now, but the Who's Who revelation was in the Chicago Sun Times nearly a year ago and not merely "speculation" -- Novak himself said it, albeit in a coy manner. The point is, this isn't anything new. And it is kind of disingenuous for us to pretend that was some sort of bomshell to Wilson. There still remains an unnamed source -- not that it matters in terms of the law, because there was no violation. Yes, Wilson is an idiot, but it is a bit misleading to imply that he "outed" his wife by merely listing including her name in his bio. It is relevant, however, in the sense that there really was no need to "protect" his wife, despite his protestations to the contrary,

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

Yes.

From the left (how appropriate):

Jim McDermott
John Conyers
Sheila Jackson Lee
Barbara Lee, D-Havana
Unknown man in yellow tie in back of Babs Lee
Charles Rangel
Tom Hayden (behind Charlie)
Former Ambassador Joe Wilson
Cindy Sheehan

...Note Sheehan has draped a baby picture of her son over her name placard. Precious!

The Congresscritters featured here are the leftest of the Left. Hayden does not stick out at all.

Wilson's presence in their midst speaks volumes.

[ConservativeHacker]

Agent Valerie Plame
Agent Valerie Plame
You messed with "DeadEye Dick"
Now you're going down in flames

OR

Agent Valerie Plame
Agent Valerie Plame
You betrayed this great country
For your 15 minutes of fame

[syriacus]

The lawsuit is just a ploy to keep their names in the news.

What you write makes sense.

[zook]

Getting better!