The Plame’s statement was issued shortly after the accident and before Novak’s conditon was diagnosed. See http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003831627
The fact that those turdballs have the status in my country to “issue statements” is, in itself, imminently deplorable. Timing does not alter my feelings or my comments. I would have loved to have seen their level of joviality after the diagnosis. Sorry, I only give good and honorable people the benefit of the doubt.