There are times like these that I wish I was proficient in Photo Shop, so I could cut and paste this face:
into this picture:
Now that the truth appears to be coming out about who the real “leaker” was, the media frenzy of the last year is starting to more resemble the John Mark Karr non-story than Watergate.
But Plamegate is nontheless fascinating, because it reveals the ugly underbelly of the political culture of Washington. Here are some of the main characters in this travesty:
The Wilsons, that arrogant, egotistical, vindictive couple that believed that nepotism was a perfectly legitimate means of rehabilitating the CIA’s sullied reputation at the expense of the Administration.
Robert Novak, a crusty old conservative columnist who stumbled into a maelstrom through the bumbling of Richard Armitage, a moderate State Department type who probably never had an axe to grind (unlike most of the other principals).
Colin Powell, one of the Left’s favorite Republicans, who left the Bush Adminstration swinging in the breeze for a couple of years, while he knew who the culprit was since at least October 2003, deeming that covering the State Department’s butt was more important than getting to the truth and avoiding the expense and distraction of the Fitzgerald investigation.
The Mainstream Media, who jumped at any chance to make the Bush Administration look bad, resembling the National Inquirer, but without that tabloid’s integrity.
The Left-wing blogosphere, who wants so badly to bring down Bushchimpsterhitler that they believed that if they said it loud enough, closed their eyes and visualized it, it would happen.
Now it turns out that not only was “Plamegate” not instigated by a vindictive White House, the whole Niger-Iraq yellow cake connection may have actually been true (despite “Mr. Plame’s” insistence to the contrary). My favorite socialist, Christopher Hitchens, wrote a compelling article last month making that case:
http://www.slate.com/id/2146475/
His latest piece on Plamegate is equally as insightful:
http://www.slate.com/id/2148555
As the mid-term elections approach, one can only hope that more of the Republican “culture of corruption” portrayed by the Democrats will blow up in their faces.
Anyone hear anything lately about how the case against Tom DeLay is proceeding?
Here are some interesting comments on the subject from the Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/31/AR2006083101460_pf.html
I saw that wapo link today and had to LOL.
You suppose liberals will apologize for blowing this story way out of poportion? My bet is they won’t. I bet they pull another fake but accurate thing as they did with Rathergate.
Speaking of Rathergate, John Hinderaker and Scott Johnson of Powerline were on Bill Bennett’s “Morning in America” this morning. Powerline is generally credited with breaking the Rathergate/Memogate story. They gave credit to Charles Johnson at Little Green Footballs for re-creating the famed “1972 memo” on Microsoft Word using default settings. They wondered, as I have, how many times the so-called mainstream media got away with this kind of thing prior to the emergence of the blogosphere.
(BTW, Powerline also posted some very interesting comments about the wapo article this morning):
http://powerlineblog.com/archives/015165.php
As far as the liberals apologizing for anything, don’t count on it any time soon. But as more and more fabriactions like Rathergate and the Photo-Shopped “fauxtography” from the Israel-Hizbollah War come to light, denial will become less and less viable an option.
The liberals and their willing accomplices in the old media are either going to clean up their act or face a future of irrelevance.
The Left-wing blogosphere, who wants so badly to bring down Bushchimpsterhitler that they believed that if they said it loud enough, closed their eyes and visualized it, it would happen.
Here’s a great example of an exchange I had with just such a blogger, back in April 2006:
http://wallywhateley.blogspot.com/2006/04/bush-is-plame-leaker.html
–The liberals and their willing accomplices in the old media are either going to clean up their act or face a future of irrelevance–
I think that time has long since passed.