Like you knew that it always would.
LOL at @ValeriePlame retweeting article outing a CIA officer. pic.twitter.com/jsm1Q6MBqC
— Jimmy (@JimmyPrinceton) December 22, 2014
Ever get the feeling that Valerie wanted more from her fifteen? Because I get the feeling that Valerie wanted more from her fifteen. Such a pity…
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.
I mean, I knew right from the start that the movie that they made about Joe Wilson/Valerie Plame was going to be errant nonsense, but it’s a bit of a shock for the Washington Post to use up valuable editorial space to declare shenanigans. After casually eviscerating the central premise and main narration of the movie, the WaPo forthrightly – and very accurately – calls Joe Wilson a lying suckweasel (I paraphrase):
Hollywood has a habit of making movies about historical events without regard for the truth; “Fair Game” is just one more example. But the film’s reception illustrates a more troubling trend of political debates in Washington in which established facts are willfully ignored. Mr. Wilson claimed that he had proved that Mr. Bush deliberately twisted the truth about Iraq, and he was eagerly embraced by those who insist the former president lied the country into a war. Though it was long ago established that Mr. Wilson himself was not telling the truth – not about his mission to Niger and not about his wife – the myth endures. We’ll join the former president in hoping that future historians get it right.
(Via Hot Air Headlines) The truly tragic bit? I’m almost certain that there will be almost no explosions, automatic weapons fire combined with a car chase, and/or catsuits involved in the film. That might have made the silly thing watchable.
Moe Lane