This might actually be the most absurd thing I've seen in months.
On Thanksgiving Day, Joe and Valerie Plame Wilson, the couple that likely has gotten more media attention in the past few years than any in America besides the Clintons and Brangelina, actually took the time to write an article whining about the press not going gaga enough about recent revelations from Scott McClellan's not yet written book.
Honestly, I used to think Bill Clinton was the most self-absorbed person on the planet, but these two really take the cake.
As published at the Huffington Post Thursday (emphasis added):
With the exception of MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews, and the intrepid David Shuster, the mainstream media would have you believe that McClellan's revelation is old news. "Now back to Aruba and the two-year old disappearance of a blond teenager." But treason is not old news. The Washington press corps, whose pretension is to report and interpret events objectively, has been compromised in this matter as evidence presented in the courtroom demonstrated. Prominent journalists acted as witting agents of Rove, Libby and Armitage and covered up this serious breach of U.S. national security rather than doing their duty as journalists to report it to the public.
So far there is no apparent desire for redemption driving the press to report on the treachery of senior officials. Instead, the mainstream press has compounded its complicity by giving the Bush administration yet another free pass and shifting blame. The New York Times failed to publish an article on McClellan's revelation and The Washington Post buried it at the end of a column deep on page A-15 in the newspaper. Earlier in the week, Newsweek magazine, owned by the Washington Post Company, proudly announced the identity of its new star columnist -- Karl Rove, one of the key actors in this collective treason. Robert Novak, who willfully disclosed Valerie's identity, having been twice warned not to do so by the CIA, and who transmitted his column to Rove before it was published, remains a regularly featured columnist in The Washington Post.
These people are delusional. As NewsBusters also reported Thursday (emphasis added):
In the past few days since these 121 words were posted, there have been 126 press reports on the subject. CNN has led the way with sixteen, followed by MSNBC with six, NBC with three, and one each from NBC and CBS.
But that's not enough.
Wilson and/or his wife have been mentioned in 141 press reports since the McClellan revelations first appeared.
But that's not enough.
Besides his beloved MSNBC, Wilson was also interviewed this week by CNN and CBS.
But that's not enough.
According to LexisNexis, Wilson and/or his wife have been mentioned in more than 11,000 media reports so far this year. In 162 of them, the word "treason" was included.
But that's not enough.
Not surprisingly, what was enough for the Wilsons was the side of this story they decided to not share with their readers which largely made moot their complaints.
I guess this couple didn't feel the opinions expressed by McClellan's publisher concerning the press overreacting to the marketing blurb placed at Public Affairs Books.com Monday were at all important.
Nor was this publisher's assertions that McClellan "Did not intend to suggest Bush lied to him."
Clearly, those little details were too much information for this couple, for to them, it's all about publicity.
Quite a delicious contradiction for a pair that has been complaining that her name was leaked, dontcha think?
—Noel Sheppard is the Associate Editor of NewsBusters. Follow him at Facebook and Twitter.
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Is there any possible way
November 22, 2007 - 22:19 ET by motherbeltIs there any possible way they could get Val to have plastic surgery, change her name, and get her back into the CIA and make her a real covert agent this time, so they both would have to shut up once and for all?
Joe and Val: Just go away!
November 22, 2007 - 22:23 ET by ToddonCapeCodGeez.
For someone who was supposedly covert, Valerie sure is a spotlight whore.
No kidding!
November 22, 2007 - 22:53 ET by landsharkI'm still wondering how many other "covert" agents have desk jobs at Langley.....
Our Most Egregious Failure
November 22, 2007 - 23:15 ET by BourbeauOur Justice Department (i.e. the Pansy Fitzgerald) not demanding that the morons at the CIA release all records of Valerie's 'covert' activity. For all the grief those two co-conspirators caused, they should have been exposed for the shallow, unethical, slimey bastards that they are. Unfortunately, no one in our government felt we deserved to know exactly what we paid that moron to do.
The Jerry Springers of the CIA
November 23, 2007 - 02:51 ET by BittersecretThese two have become a caricature of themselves. The funniest part is the fraud they are running on the nutroots in order to sell books.
I guess when the only person you can book an interview with is Jason Leopold, you write pathetic posts on Huffington in a desperate effort to sell 2 or 3 more books.
HOW MUCH IS ENOUGH???
November 23, 2007 - 08:42 ET by danybhoyThis might be the most over exposed couple I've ever seen. They certainly don't merit they sort of fawning attention they have received. I don't need to see anymore of these 2 media whores. However, if they feel slighted about their "lack of media attention", they have 2 options left, work out a deal for a "reality" show(would'nt you love to see what their reality is?)or put out a sex tape. There really is no real reason to report further on these 2 morons other then by those trying to push an agenda.
BTW, whoever exposed Val should get a medal, I just saying...
"Some of us are wise, some of us are otherwise" Mark Levin
How the Mighty Have Fallen...
November 23, 2007 - 09:33 ET by heldmywThe Plame/Wilsons are done. Some tidbits about "Truthout" hack, Leopold.
Howard Kurtz, WaPo...
"Leopold acknowledges in a new book, "News Junkie," that he is a past
liar, convicted felon and former alcoholic and cocaine addict."
http://www.washingto...
...and from DailyKos - "Jason Leopold, Sockpuppet Extraordinaire"
http://www.dailykos....
I'm thinkin' that the status of the interviewer says something about the status of the interviewee...
Look Mom How Far I Have Gone
November 22, 2007 - 23:01 ET by Lame CherryThe Bible has a great deal of Wisdom on every situation. I remember Judean scholar speaking of what to do about Christians..........and his advice was if they were blow hards they would fade like a fog burning off in a hot sun, but if they were of God one could do nothing to stop them.
In that there is a Superintendent of sorts I happened upon in remembering him as a child bully...........who still has his teeth in attempting to pick on me due to the fact my parents forbade me at an early age from ever getting into fights.
This now lofty persona in life had failed at being a coach miserably which he went to school for like all jocks do. He eventually drifted to a driftwood town where he is now the big fish in a very little bowl where most people flee from as it is the last place people want to be.
Even there he failed in a real estate deal to lift him to millionaire status and all he has.............well his life peaked about the time he married the prom queen and has been a bully lie of failure ever since.
In that reality, the Plamette and Wilsonette have never figured out they are pawns in life on the board of the Rockefellers who only used them to cover up uranium and bribery deals the world undertook with Bill Clinton's help, Saddam's selling out Iraq and Marc Rich moving the cash around.
Plame and Wilson are allot like Barak Obama in actually thinking they matter when the fact is they were created for a purpose, have been rewarded already and the Rockefeller cartel would really just like them to shut up and fade to the fog of oblivion.
The 2 coup pawns honestly believed when Bill Clinton had them in a greeting line that they were there for themselves...........but they were just window candy and Val was if she played her cigar right would have gotten more than just a career ruining plot to bring down Bush 43 and a few million in a book payoff deal.
Think of it. A job as a mole for the Rockefellers at the CIA. A job as ambassador of the United States and they whored it all out for nothing thinking they could bring down Bush like the cartel brought down Nixon...........the Bush people know where the skeletons are buried and know the game from the JFK ruse to the operation of Lawrence Walsh which brought down Bush 41.
You might fool a Bush once, but 43 like a Texicans plays hard till the last minute and he plays for keeps.
So there is Val Plame growing wrinkled old and her Playboy feature disappearing fast in greying hair.............and on Thanks Giving Day, their great ascention to life is...............
Look Mom, we are in print in the wacko Huffington Post with foul mouthed Bill Maher, phobic Robert Shearer and Lee Woodruff who thinks sexual perversion can be dealt with in porn mags being handed out.
Get a clue Val and Joe, you are not Richard Armitage..........you have peaked 10 years ago and it is all down hill for you as globalists might like a nasty whore the first time, but having learned the trick they will send you down to the Mexican brothels every time.
Adios Val and Joe...........if you took as much interest in God and the children He gave you to raise........life would be a whole lot more rewarding.
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According to LexisNexis,
November 22, 2007 - 23:21 ET by MidAmericaAccording to LexisNexis, Wilson and/or his wife have been mentioned in more than 11,000 media reports so far this year. In 162 of them, the word "treason" was included.
And what's funny about all this exposure is that the vast majority of the public could not recognize or know who these two are. The public knows when to listen to something when they feel it is important and they feel this is not important.
the public could not recognize or know who these two are
November 23, 2007 - 10:24 ET by HypocriteHaterThat would be an interesting "man on the street" bit. Have someone show pictures of the Wilsons and see how many average Americans DON'T know who they are. I think that would put the final nail in the coffin of these two's 15 minutes of fame.
two-year old disappearance of a blonde
November 23, 2007 - 00:16 ET by candanceWhy the need to insult Natalie Hollway's family? With all due respect, Natalie Holloway actually did turn up missing and is either dead or in serious danger - unlike Valerie Plame (we're still wondering exactly how the leak hurt her career).
PS A grand jury heard the whole case and decided Richard Armitage and Robert Novak were innocent. Scooter Libby was convicted of lying to investigators which, though connected to the case, does not prove the leak itself was "treason."
But those two are so whiny they're actually jealous of Natalie Holloway. I don't even know what to say to that.
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Interesting how they are so
November 23, 2007 - 12:25 ET by fitzfongInteresting how they are so fixated on the "disappearance of a blonde". Wouldn't it be nice if this blonde (and her fat load of a "husband") disappeared for a while? Unlike Natalie Holloway, no one would miss them.
For a couple so "concerned" about their privacy, the Wilsons sure have an interesting way of protecting it. By the way, is it any wonder MSDNC is in last place? Nobody is interested in the Wilsons, who aren't even worthy of being footnotes to history.
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November 23, 2007 - 03:46 ET by dahliatraversIs there any possible way they could get Val to have plastic surgery, change her name, and get her back into the CIA and make her a real covert agent this time, so they both would have to shut up once and for all?
lol
Great suggestion.
Valerie Who?
November 23, 2007 - 11:54 ET by River CityValerie, please, just go away.
I don't care about you. You rank right at the bottom of my Care-meter with Paris Hilton and Britney Spears. Take your husband with you and do what most Americans do: live life.
"We are going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." Hillary Clinton, 6-28-04 San Francisco
The Wilsons aren't whining
November 23, 2007 - 13:27 ET by Agrarian-DecentralistIt comes down to which statement you choose to accept: McClellan's original pronouncement, which clearly lists the president among those behind the deception, or the publisher's hasty denial---which may just possibly suggest that he and/or McClellan got cold feet.
As for the press coverage, give me a break. MSNBC and CNN may have been doing their jobs, but for a story of this magnitude---comparable to Dean blowing the whistle on the Nixon coverup---coverage was pretty light, and, in some major outlets, buried in back pages. I forget now which it was---the L.A. Times or USA Today---that put the story deep in the paper, and in close proximity to the annual "Bush pardons the turkey" nonsense. (Ironic, under the circumstances.)
The question is whether the media that NewsBusters loves to characterize as liberal follow up on the story, as they would have with a comparable story during the Watergate era. My guess is no. They are too cowed and too inclined to stick with safe fluff that won't antagonize anyone but hard-core liberals or conservatives. More's the pity. Whether or not Bush was involved, no one---so far including Mr. Sheppard---is grappling with McClellan's assertion about the other top White House officials, including the Vice President. What is clear to everyone but conservatives who are still in denial even after the clear statements of the CIA, the judge and the prosecutor is that someone outed a covert agent (treason). And what is also clear is that someone tried to cover it up (an impeachable offense). That's still news, and the Wilsons are correct in saying it deserves more thorough attention.
A-D
November 23, 2007 - 14:02 ET by Noel SheppardA-D,
The more comments of yours I read here, the more I think you're either a Netroots shill, or so intellectually challenged that you're not worth any of my time. As such, this will be my final comment to you other than to warn you about your behavior.
Although I believe A-D indeed is short for attention deficit, listen up: this was NOT a pronouncement by McClellan. This was a marketing blurb at a publisher's website giving notice of future book publications by said publisher. Why folks like you don't get this is beyond me, although facts as I have stated are never important to people when they are defending their dogma.
Adieu. ns
On the Contrary....
November 23, 2007 - 15:19 ET by Agrarian-DecentralistThe original release by the publisher included text presented as an excerpt from a book by McClellan. That's a pronouncement by McClellan---or at least it was until the publisher tried to backtrack and claim that---uh---the book wasn't finished yet. What part of that don't YOU understand?
As for your childish attempt to dismiss me as unintelligent or a victim of attention deficit disorder, suffice it to say that I am a Mensa veteran (with plenty of qualifying points to spare) and I spent most of my working life in professional positions that required meticulous attention to detail. I think what bothers you about my posts is that I'm TOO attentive to your selective use of information. You are an extreme idealogue, bound and determined to preserve your world view regardless of how many facts should point you in another direction. But since that is obviously not something you want to hear, I'll leave it at that and make no further comments at NewsBusters.
A-D
November 23, 2007 - 15:48 ET by Noel SheppardA-D,
In my experience, people who brag about their intellect do so to mask an obvious defiency much the same as insecure men discussing their genital endowment.
As such, thank you kindly for validating my assertions as you slam the door behind you like a spoiled child caught with his hands in the cookie jar.
Give my regards to DKos. ns
Noel vs. A-D
November 23, 2007 - 17:12 ET by MrShy"Give my regards to D-Kos.... and (something something) Herald Squuaaarrre!...."
(yes, I hardly know that song) :p
"MY end justifies THAT mean." - Shakespeare (not really)
MS
November 23, 2007 - 18:09 ET by Noel SheppardMS,
"Remember me..." ns
Noel
November 23, 2007 - 18:16 ET by MrShyAaah, right, of course... thx.
And you changed "warming" to "warning" :(.... (I would have left it... maybe put it in quotes, or bold it, or put one of the two words in "( )" :p)
"MY end justifies THAT mean." - Shakespeare (not really)
Oh, I'm so sorry to see
November 23, 2007 - 15:59 ET by fitzfongOh, I'm so sorry to see that Aging-Communist has decided to walk away after covering himself in so much glory. If I didn't know better from his Mensa boast, I'd have thought that "Agrarian-Decentralist" was simply the new misleading handle of the erstwhile "Sir" Thomas (who went to Cambridge, after all---snark). Anyway, you'll be missed. We'll just have to save ourselves up for some other troll pin setter.
Shadow projection
November 24, 2007 - 11:19 ET by celator"You are an extreme idealogue, bound and determined to preserve your
world view regardless of how many facts should point you in another
direction."
And this, class, is a textbook example of projection of repressed shadow. You may use it as primary reference in your final exam. ;+}
The story isn't being
November 23, 2007 - 14:10 ET by fitzfongThe story isn't being covered by the media to the extent that Joe Wilson wants it covered because the media knows it's a DOG of a story. The Wilsons are a pair of proven frauds, and most of the media knows that if it wants to keep what little shred of credibility it has left, it will treat the "Plame-gate" story for NON-STORY that it always was. The only reason MSDNC personalities still cover this non-story with any credulity is that the network is so desperate to corner the only market it has any chance of reaching (brain dead hippie washouts like yourself), it will go to every length necessary to breath life into this corpse. I notice that even serial Wilson apologists like John Kerry and Schmuckie Schumer have stayed away to avoid the acrid stench.
AD
November 24, 2007 - 01:16 ET by candanceHe'll be back in a month or two with some other screen name. Folks like him can't stay away for too long.
And when he does come back, we'll be sorry for dissing him! Because he's a certified genuis (with points to spare!!!) and we're all trailer trash.
Ever notice how nearly every leftie on these sites is really Einstein in disguise?
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Funny Guy!
November 23, 2007 - 17:00 ET by Del Dolemonte"As for the press coverage, give me a break. MSNBC and CNN may have been doing their jobs, but for a story of this magnitude---comparable to Dean blowing the whistle on the Nixon coverup---coverage was pretty light, and, in some major outlets, buried in back pages"
If you had bother to read NB this week, you would know that Fox News also covered the McClellan story, and that CNN's "interview" Wednesday morning with Joe Wilson was nothing but a lovefest between Joe and John Roberts. Likewise, Plame DID get copious coverage from the alphabet broadcast networks. Katie Couric on See-BS even called her a "victim". That's hardly objective journalism.
You're just jealous because your hero Bill Clinton was impeached, and Bush wasn't. Move on (dot-org).
My idea for these two
November 23, 2007 - 23:22 ET by CJK51Good evening, all. I am making my second of what I hope are more posts on this great site.
Does anyone else think it's time to gather up the Wilsons and herd them into the spaceship aimed at the sun? For two people who have blathered endlessly about how their lives are ruined by Double-Oh-Dumbass Val's outing, they sure aren't doing very much to keep a lid on things now.
If they were truly interested in returning to so-called normal lives, they'd just shut up. I suppose that's too much for which to hope.
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!
November 24, 2007 - 00:35 ET by SlicksterI want my movie deal!!!!!!!!
Wah...
November 24, 2007 - 05:26 ET by ProudGulfWarVet65I wanted to reply to the above, also, and say-as a newbie myself-welcome aboard-great point!
Heh...well, Slickster, I don't know if you refer to McSmellin or Plame and her Plamette Joe Wilson, but I guess it works in either case. The difference is, if for some reason McClellan got a movie deal, he wouldn't get to play himself. He never was much good in front of a camera, after all.