Tag: outing

Left apparently ready to shrug off White House incompetently outing Kabul station chief.

Well, if you were ever unsure whether the entire Libbygate thing was overwrought…

Valerie Plame doesn’t deny that blowing the cover of the CIA station chief in Afghanistan is a serious matter. It’s just that, discussing the issue at a Wednesday evening forum sponsored by The Atlantic, Plame seemed to view the outing of the CIA’s top spy on the front lines in the Afghan war as more of an embarrassment than an outrage.

…actually, if you were unsure: well, why?  It was obvious at the time that the antiwar movement wasn’t really outraged over the issue.  They were just looking for a viable line of attack on a war that they were too petty to support and too craven to oppose.  If they had actually cared then the Left would be the first people screaming about the fact that the slapdash and slap-happy White House team did what they do best, which is screw up in a fashion that might end up getting people killed. Continue reading Left apparently ready to shrug off White House incompetently outing Kabul station chief.

#rsrh …You know something?

Let’s not get this entire mess out for the record, for once.  Let’s just summarize.  It is in fact possible to disapprove of Rick Perry’s social-conservative ad without also hating social conservatives, ceasing to support Perry, or viciously and profanely outing (warning: language NSFW) Perry’s pollster.  Something that GOProud should have thought about before it made itself radioactive and embarrassed its putative allies on the Right by doing that last one.

Put another way: this was not a good explanation, GOProud.  I am a social moderate and same-sex marriage supporter who wanted the end of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell… and I have no intention of defending your group on this.  You guys screwed up.  Own it, so that we can move on.