Zero 'Trash for Cash' Questions for Valerie Plame In Network Puff Tour

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For years now, Valerie Plame has been the toast of the liberal glitterati, a celebrated combat specialist against the Vast Bush Conspiracy. Every move the former CIA employee has made has oozed political and commercial calculation. She struck a book deal with Simon & Schuster worth more than $2 million. She struck a movie deal based on the book deal with Warner Brothers for millions more, so she can be played as a patriotic heroine on the silver screen by Nicole Kidman or Naomi Watts. How many millions more? Two million? Five million? Don’t wait for the media to ask. They're too busy playing her as victimized.

In the Clinton years, any opponent in a Clinton scandal was assumed to be overwhelmed with greed, desperate to get an agent and make millions with lies about the president, to sell "trash for cash." Since she's been encouraged to wage political war by Hillary Clinton, none of these assumptions have been applied to Valerie Plame, or her husband, Joe Wilson. Here’s a rundown of the Plame interviews and the number of questions about the Wilsons making millions:

60 Minutes, CBS: Zero.

Today, NBC: Zero.

Larry King Live, CNN: Zero.

All Things Considered, NPR: Zero.

Fresh Air with Terry Gross, NPR: Zero.

Countdown with Keith Olbermann, MSNBC: Zero.

Hardball, MSNBC: Zero.

The Situation Room, CNN: Zero.

They can laugh all the way to the bank. The network interviewers were breathless at the chance to speak with Valerie Plame as her book tour began, eager to air her tale of how she was viciously victimized by Karl Rove and his henchmen. The first words CBS "60 Minutes" aired out of her mouth were "finally I get to set the record straight."

CBS wants you to assume she's obviously the one who talks straight, and not her opponents. This would also assume that these networks haven’t been her promoters and publicists over the last four years. How would she be worth four or eight or ten million dollars without all their breathless odes?

—Tim Graham is Director of Media Analysis at the Media Research Center


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Plame

Plame's book is number 21 on Amazon. I think public enthusiasm about this one whine woman is waning.

Bill and Valerie

    Once Bill Clinton got a look of her, he thought, man, she's got to be telling the truth.  She is way too hot to be lying!

Nicole Kidman or Naomi

Nicole Kidman or Naomi Watts ... ???????????????????!

 

What the heck happened with Sharon Stone?  Too old?  Too bitchy?  Gotta have someone more waif-like in order to be the victim?

Shoot! I was so looking forward to the steamy hot Plame/Wilson love scenes between Stone and Alec Baldwin ... /sarc

Naomi all the way..  but

Naomi all the way..  but who would play Joe?  Hey, I'll bet Bill Clinton would love to audition for that..

King Kong??? They could

King Kong???

They could be the new Tracy/Hepburn couple ...

Lets see

Lets see now;;; has she been on Fox News yet? How about Laura Ingraham's show or Glen Beck's or Bill O'Reilley or Sean Hannity or any other (non-left wing shoe polisher's venue)? I think not!

 I guess it is true that lefties occasionally lock out a thief but not a liar AND "A coward dies a thousand deaths but a hero tastes of death but once".

I would say that she and her husband are BOTH LIARS and COWARDS but that would be to much of an insult to common liars and cowards.

Stone is too weird; creepy,

Stone is too weird; creepy, even. 

 

Anyone who says they support the troops but not the mission is a liar. 

  Val is the replacement

  Val is the replacement for Ms sheehan.  Once cindy started saying in public what the lefties say in private her statements became embarrassing to quote by the national media.  But val is an uptown girl.  She'll stay on message.

Did you hear her say

that she went through spy "training" -- so she's admitting that she wasn't an actual spy just was trained for one?

Yes, and Jesse McBeth spent

Yes, and Jesse McBeth spent a little time in boot camp ... before feeling "the boot" ...