Poor little Victim Valerie. On the cover of Vanity Fair with her oily husband (whom she personally recommended for that phony assignment that has since brought him fame and fortune). Gimme a break.
I still say that the guy in the pic crossed a line that he shouldn't have.
It's easy to do when you're faceless, and you command a mob at your fingertips. It's harder to do when you plaster you face all over an internet site.
"Poor little Victim Valerie. On the cover of Vanity Fair with her oily husband (whom she personally recommended for that phony assignment that has since brought him fame and fortune). Gimme a break."
Ditto!
"Poor little Victim Valerie. On the cover of Vanity Fair with her oily husband (whom she personally recommended for that phony assignment that has since brought him fame and fortune). Gimme a break."
Being on the cover of Vanity Fair is no trade off for losing her career...apparently a career she loved. It cracks me up that Plame suggesting her husband for that mission is some sort of indictment. It's not as if it was a big cushy job. Wilson apparently did it for free. And a few weeks in Africa is hardly a trip to Hawaii.
The woman was apparently so dedicated to finding WMD that she opted for covert status which put her life in jeopardy every day that she served overseas. Do you really think she did not want to find the weapons connection to Iraq if they existed?
Has anyone here ever considered that there's an innocent and logical explanation for how Wilson was chosen? The subject came up, Plame said that her husband had diplomatic experience in both Iraq and Africa and still had connections and friends there...he was qualified and available to go.
It's not much different than me suggesting a friend or relative for a particular job if I know they have expertise in that area. All of this screeching about cronyism is especially amusing considering Mike Brown holding a $148,000 per year job as FEMA director.