Last night, as you’re probably aware by now, one of the Libby jurors, appearing on Hardball, called on President Bush to pardon Scooter Libby:
“I would like him to get†a pardon from Bush, Redington said. “It kind of bothers me that there was this whole big crime being investigated and he got caught up in the investigation as opposed to in the actual crime that was supposedly committed.â€Â
At the same time, another MSNBC moron is working on a story that recounts for us the personal, human dimensions of the trial and verdict:
I ran into Joe Wilson at Starbucks this morning. We hugged and thought neighborhood coffee was as good a way as any to celebrate Scooter Libby’s guilty verdict yesterday.
Seeing Joe looking happy and fresh made me realize that so many people outside of Washington see this verdict and the events of the past few years as just about politics, not about people.
Joe and Valerie are neighborhood parents. We both have boy-girl twins and our kids played together sometimes. Just like lots of my friends in the neighborhood, they are fun, friendly, smart, passionate and accomplished. Their kids are adorable and play well with others. They are certainly better behaved than my kids.
Isn’t that nice? Awww.
Joe was always a grand personality. If there is a room at the party that is louder than others, where the talk is frenzied and the opinions are flying, then Joe is sure to be in the middle of it. Valerie is more reserved but no less engaging when she is talking.
I think there’s a difference between “grand” and grandiose, but yes, we are all aware that Joe’s quite a racconteur. Why, he’s a fabulist!
So here they wereâ€â€a neighborhood family. And then the most powerful men in the country decided that the Wilsons were getting in the way of their personal agenda of economic domination through war-mongering. Their lives were overturned. And after they were targeted and Valerie’s CIA career was ruined, they were attacked and victimized all over again by the right-wing defenders of the White House for having the temerity to stick up for themselves.
Wait–were they a neighborhood family, or was she under deep cover? When Yellowcake Joe published lies in the NYT was he just acting as a concerned private citizen, trying to get the truth out? What CIA career? The desk job at Langley? How was that ruined? Generally the victims of lies are the ones whom the lies are told about, you treacherous moonbat.
I never thought they were defending themselves.
No, they were attacking others, and depending on the credulity of idiots such as yourself, Ms. Rosen. There–have I attacked you, you poor thing?
The Wilsons knew and still know that when the powers that be can do that to them, they can do it to anyone. And they needed to be stopped. It seems by the reaction to the Libby verdict that no one at the White House or their defenders has learned any remorse or taken any responsibility for what they’ve done to the Wilson’s other victims of their bullying or self-interested governing for that matter
So, I guess that the point is that the administration shouldn’t worry about any lies told about it, or their motivation, or their currency in political discourse, because to gainsay the lies is an act of wanton aggression.
The Wilsons are moving on. This week, in fact. They are taking a family ski trip this weekend and then moving out West permanently. The kids will start in a new school in two weeks.
How nice for the Wilsons.
I am sad they are leaving the neighborhood. But who can blame them. They need a fresh start. The country needs a fresh start too. I am just glad that this guilty verdict happened this week. I see it as a going away present to the Wilsons.
I can blame them. I do blame them. The country needs a fresh start? Perhaps a good place would be to have the MSM, beginning with MSNBC, report more widely the serial lies of Joe Wilson. I hope they follow him like avenging harpies wherever he goes.
But the saddest of the sad things is that you, you imbecile, have forgotten the humanity of Scooter Libby, who has been convicted of felonies and faces jail time for telling lies about a crime that was never committed, whereas the false testimony of Joe Wilson continues–as is easily seen by the nonsense written by our trolls–to circulate as though it had any grounds in reality.
Your compassion shtick nauseates me, you ignorant, self-righteous (UPDATE: miserable, atrocious) bitch.
UPDATE: Bob Novak at Real Clear Politics
Whats with the deep cover / neighborhood couple distinction? Does deep cover mean your outward appearence is not normal? or does it mean that you have an innocent outward appearance but in reality what you do is some hush hush thing?
I was stricken by the same thought: if your point is the humanity of those who become public figures in service, it’s well taken. What about the humanity of the Bush family, subjected to horrible comments about George Bush the sometimes-idiot, sometimes evil-warmonger, sometimes protector of torturers, sometimes user of vicitms for political purposes? What about his humanity in trying to do an impossible job with the world second guessing? Wouldn’t want that job for the world.
I bet the Wilsons are enjoyable company. You have to know how to play the game in the company they keep. But if they are willing to spin the truth for personal gain in the big matters where lack of veracity can be easily discovered, Ms. Rosen, are you really certain of what they say about you behind your back? Are you certain that any shared confidence won’t be used for their gain?
The Wilsons are vainglorious self-aggrandizers, who are capitalizing with books and soon a movie. If Valerie were truely covert with something to fear from being “outed,” she’d be in the CIA version of the witness protection program, not on the cover of magazines. Libby’s life is the one that’s over; the Wilson’s is ajust getting warmed up.
Emmadine,
If you and others will forgive me for taking two snapshots separated by many decades difference, here’s William F. Buckley Jr., recounting his experience in the CIA:
Versus the manner in which Robert Novak learned of Plame’s CIA affiliation. According to Novak, he learned of Plame’s name from the “Who’s Who” entry for Joe Wilson, and then subsequently verified Plame’s employment at the CIA by calling the CIA public information officer.
So, it is possible that Plame was working in ‘deep cover’ but I would tend to suspect it’s been quite some time since she was out, crashing about intimately involved in such things, if for no other reason than it’s the kind of thing that makes raising kids and pursuing the relatively stable family life described above quite difficult.
BRD
Quite frankly I’ve found this Libby business very complicated, and a bit boring. Thankfully, Stephen Colbert explains it to me in this video:
http://minor-ripper.blogspot.com/2007/03/stephen-colbert-explains-libby-verdict.html
That today’s Left sees in this egregious liar and self-promoter, Joe Wilson, a crusading hero speaks volumes about the state of the port side today.
Did Libby lie to the grand jury? Possibly, even probably. But the fact is that the investigation should have been shut down long before he got there for lack of evidence that a crime had actually been committed. And under no scenario does it excuse or mitigate the falsehoods vomited up by the Wilsons in their vile crusade.
Is this for real?
M kids are nice too, my wife is great fun at parties. But I would think that if I was working for a presidential canidate, and in order to bolster that canidate’s anti-war stance I cooked up a story about being sent on a fact-finding trip to an African country, by the sitting Vice President of the Administration that my canidate was hoping to unseat, and in press accounts and Op-Ed columns in the newspaper with one of the largest circulations in the world continued to lie about who really sent me. And then accused the sitting administration of ignoring the results of the fact-finding trip, that I lied about them sending me on because the “truth” was inconvienient to their warmongering ways, then positioned myself as a “whistle-blower” in the media, ostensibly a man who was trusted enough by the Vice-President to find out what was really going on, only to have the Vice-President ignore the facts as I saw them, even though the Vice-President did not send me on the trip and the findings of the trip were in fact almost exactly opposite the assertions I had made to the press. I think, and I may be wrong here, but I think, that there might be some push-back from the opposition canidates as to 1) who really sent me on the trip, and 2) what it was I really found out while I was there.
Of course, if there was push-back from the opposition campaign, I could always claim that that campaign leaked the identity of the person who really sent me on the trip as part of a smear campaign against me instead of what it was, the truth. I’ll get a cover story in Vanity Fair magazine and my wife, who was the person who actually sent me on the trip, will get glamour shots on the inside of the magazine, have her name, status and title published all over the world and get invited to more parties.
And the best part about all this is that one of the guys who was actually involved in telling the truth might be going to jail for telling it.
It’s nothing but a typical Lefty Hollywood-dream delusion, complete with heroic narcissistic persecution complex, and “still revolting” as Iowahawk explained a while back.
emmadine,
When your outward cover involves driving from your house to Langley where you sit at a desk everyday, you’re not in deep cover.
– Take heart in the distinct possibility that sooner or later someone inside the moonbat cabel that ginned up this Left-wing scam will realize the huge bucks to be made in “exposing” the core players, and the complete four act play.
– When that happens we will all be given endless entertainment as it all follows the RatherGate process, watching the cockroaches circle the wagons, and return to the stock excuse that “well even if it was faked, everyone knows its an accurate portrayal of what the White House was thinking, and would have done given the opportunity”.
– Just more proof that theres nothing too miscreant or feckless when you’re in the victimized political minority party.
Dorothy Thompson on commenting on some treacle stated it made her want to “fwo up”.I think this is appropriate here.
Makes him sound like a grinning sanitary pad.
You are if your name’s Aldrich Ames.
Sorry. #1 referred to looking happy and fresh at Starbucks and #2 to driving your Jaguar to Langley deep, deep under cover.
Here’s the transcript of the conversation Bob Woodward had with Armitage in which Armitage reveals who told him that Wilson’s wife worked at the CIA:
Armitage and “everyone else” knew Joe Wilson’s wife worked for the CIA because he, Wilson, was calling everyone and telling them.
But NOW Joe and Valerie are just innocent victims of the big, bad Bush bullies.
Look at this picture, Pablo. How more obvious can it be that this woman is a spy!
The reason it’s Scooter and Rove is because plame wanted an important person to leak as an excues for leaks before, like Ames. Her trip to Canada with Woolsey just before using the Niger foreign intelligence operation on the US government was questioned by the Canadian government because she is a WMD expert and a threat to national security.
The Governor General of Canada just visited Afghanistan. She is retired CBC(1 billion a year) and CSIS. She studied French seperatists in Canada and her husband is one. Alot of CSIS agents use French seperatism to keep their careers going. Her husband is used just like Plame used Wilson. It’s their histories.
Chayes is another of this type of ‘governemt agent.’ She works is Afghanistan and her excuse is she is now an Afghani.
Well, she did do a fairly good job of infiltrating the CIA, except for Wilson.
Pablo:
“It’s a, smokescreen?”
“Wot?”
“Double-bluff. It’s an XK-red-27 technique.”
Michael, can you please link to that transcript for us? Is it online?
Maybe I’m just simple but… what did that verdict have to do with Joe Wilson? I’m serious, what even tangential connection between Joe Wilson and the conviction?
I mean, I know it’s pretty much inevitable that he’ll lie and play for the press but what about the press, don’t they even think about this?
What do you mean, Christopher?
The press is a slut. It knows it’s being used, and likes it.
McGehee, here is a link to the transcript:
http://sweetness-light.com/archive/hear-armitage-tell-woodward-about-valerie-plame
At that site, you can also link to the audio and listen to the actual tapes. I haven’t listened to the audio yet.
Of course, Armitage could be lying, but if he is not, all this outrage on Wilson’s part over the alleged outing of his wife’s identity looks pretty phony.
Thanks, Michael.