The Washington Post Plames Out
You know the crap is getting pretty deep when the Post begins an Op Ed about Plamegate with the sentence:
Since 5 July 2006, the Post has mentioned Valerie Plame no less than 59 times! I don't have access to tools like LexisNexis so I really can't find the total number of times the Post has referenced Plame. But 59 times in 57 days is roughly a Plame a day. I guess in someone's mind mentioning a story once a day isn't too much attention.
Far short of an apology and closer to a Rathergate remark, the Post says:
It's too bad the Post didn't just apologize for their part in perpetuating the "falsehood," and call for Armitage to be frog-marched out and charged, as Allison Stewart of MSNBC asked about John Karr, "How come he's not being charged with something like obstruction or making false statements or conspiracy to trigger a media frenzy at the very least?" (DFWC 8/29)
Rather than discuss the real news in the Plame case, such as who knew and for how long did they know it was Armitage who leaked, the Post offers up their limp-wristed appreciation of the whole affair by ending with the proclamation:
Yeah, it's too bad the media took Wilson seriously.
NEWSBYTES
End of an Affair
It turns out that the person who exposed CIA agent Valerie Plame was not out to punish her husband.
(washingtonpost.com) -- WE'RE RELUCTANT to return to the subject of former CIA employee Valerie Plame because of our oft-stated belief that far too much attention and debate in Washington has been devoted to her story and that of her husband, former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, over the past three years. But all those who have opined on this affair ought to take note of the not-so-surprising disclosure that the primary source of the newspaper column in which Ms. Plame's cover as an agent was purportedly blown in 2003 was former deputy secretary of state Richard L. Armitage.
Tags: Plame, Wilson, WMD, Iraq, United States
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WE'RE RELUCTANT to return to the subject of former CIA employee Valerie Plame because of our oft-stated belief that far too much attention and debate in Washington has been devoted to her story and that of her husband, former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, over the past three years.
Since 5 July 2006, the Post has mentioned Valerie Plame no less than 59 times! I don't have access to tools like LexisNexis so I really can't find the total number of times the Post has referenced Plame. But 59 times in 57 days is roughly a Plame a day. I guess in someone's mind mentioning a story once a day isn't too much attention.
Far short of an apology and closer to a Rathergate remark, the Post says:
That's not to say that Mr. Libby and other White House officials are blameless.
It's too bad the Post didn't just apologize for their part in perpetuating the "falsehood," and call for Armitage to be frog-marched out and charged, as Allison Stewart of MSNBC asked about John Karr, "How come he's not being charged with something like obstruction or making false statements or conspiracy to trigger a media frenzy at the very least?" (DFWC 8/29)
Rather than discuss the real news in the Plame case, such as who knew and for how long did they know it was Armitage who leaked, the Post offers up their limp-wristed appreciation of the whole affair by ending with the proclamation:
It's unfortunate that so many people took [Wilson] seriously.
Yeah, it's too bad the media took Wilson seriously.
NEWSBYTES
End of an Affair
It turns out that the person who exposed CIA agent Valerie Plame was not out to punish her husband.
(washingtonpost.com) -- WE'RE RELUCTANT to return to the subject of former CIA employee Valerie Plame because of our oft-stated belief that far too much attention and debate in Washington has been devoted to her story and that of her husband, former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, over the past three years. But all those who have opined on this affair ought to take note of the not-so-surprising disclosure that the primary source of the newspaper column in which Ms. Plame's cover as an agent was purportedly blown in 2003 was former deputy secretary of state Richard L. Armitage.
Tags: Plame, Wilson, WMD, Iraq, United States
Global Tags: Washington DC, News and Politics, News, Politics, Current Events, Current Affairs, Life, Culture, Tension
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