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.

[beyond the sea]

LOL......... where's Potsy?

[Finalapproach29er]

Ratings weren't sinking, look it up!!

It's a misconception. H. Winkler said Happy Days was in the top 5 shows for years following the "jump the shark" episode.

[beyond the sea]

.... by the way...... is that the old Allegheny River, anat?

[A Balrog of Morgoth]

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.

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

If Truman did route every order through the UN, and that was some sort of treason, as you claim, could you....

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

This ought to be amusing....

[beyond the sea]

Is that ex-Mr. Jane Fonda slumped in the corner?

;-)

[beyond the sea]

You're getting close. Look to the Nantucket-Martha's Vineyard-Cape Cod axis of evil. Who vacations with/next to whom for the next six weeks would give you a starting list.

By the way......... did you know that the lovely Mara Liasson of FoxNews fame was once a writer for the oh-so-trendy, Vineyard Gazette, up on Martha's Vineyard?

Too bad dear Mara is too young to have been up there doing her work when Mary Jo was left for dead in Poucha Pond. She could have done some deep investigative work.

;-)

[Navy Patriot]

I was wishing for this, now, if Rove & Libby are clever, they will file a counter suit. Liar Joe and traitor wife are screwed, they must submit to deposition under oath and discovery. They can't even get out of it by dropping their suit because of the counter suit. Rove has access to records to catch Joe & traitor in any lies under oath, and the truth will reveal doctored reports to CIA and aid and comfort to the enemy. The traitor pair can't take the fifth, they initiated the suit, so it's jail for perjury, jail for contempt or jail for espionage and conspiracy.

I wonder who Joe will marry in prison?

[babydoll22]

Kewl.

[OldFriend]

It's nothing more than publicity for their book. Simon & Shuster expects something back for their payoff to the pflaming idiots.

[OldFriend]

All the usual suspects were recently in Aspen, Colorado for a group cluck.

[Ike]

"If the judge has any brains...."

Ah, therein lies the rub!

[LibertarianInExile]

Thanks, both for the appx. date and the discussion!

[DustyMoment]

There is chutzpah and there is breath-taking, astonishing chutzpah. Plame's suit (aside from being absolutely ludicrous) meets the criteria for the latter.

[onyx]

ROTFLMAO!
Thanks for the ping, Howlin.

Martin, your work needs to be posted on every wilson/plane thread.

[GVnana]

Best article I've seen on the "twosome".

[Just A Nobody]

Yawn..........sorry, the plame/wilson affair has put me to sleep for a year now. The only thing keeping the hysteria going over these two are the bloggers and the enemedia.

Knowingly revealing the identity of a covert agent is illegal under the Intelligence Identities Protection Act. In order for anyone to have broken the law, he would have to know and reveal that Plame was a covert operative for the CIA. The problem is that she wasn't.

Valerie Plame ceased to be a covert agent when her cover was blown years earlier. The CIA believed that Aldrich Ames (CIA agent/KGB spy/traitor) revealed her role, along with many other operatives, to the KGB before his arrest in 1994. Plame’s former existence as a secret agent became little more than cocktail party chatter with which to thrill the uninitiated.

Since her identity was not classified, not secret, and she had not been assigned to duty outside the United States in the last five years, revealing her mundane desk job with the CIA was simply not a crime.

Posted one year ago today!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1442513/posts

My question: Why are people still going spastic over these traitorous scum, making them oh so famous, instead of demanding they be put behind bars.

The creation of "political stars" like Plame/Wilson and Shehann is disgusting and a waste of time, breath, energy and resources, IMO. It is pathetic that with all the serious news and action going on around the world, these three are given any time on the stage.

[soccermom]

That isn't exactly a new revelation. Novak has been saying he got her name from Who's Who for years. The tantrum is over Novak's claim that no one was trying to "out" his wife for retribution.

[Howlin]

Ping to remind you about the 10 a.m. press conference IF C-SPAN shows it!

We can just use this thread for the live one!

***Credit martin_fierro for the Fonzie Wilson graphic***

[soccermom]

Press conference of what? Is she going to give us a day-by-day accounting of her smoothie choices?

[soccermom]

Duhhhhhh --- wrong thread. This is the other media whore we're talking about.