Reply #23: but what kind of attention?

[progdonkey]

All they did then was give the media something to talk about other than Plame's testimony, while still being able to claim that they "covered" her testimony.

Instead of the only thing to talk about being exactly what Plame testified, they could spend the bulk of any reports talking about the guy in a pink dress standing behind Plame, protesting the war. They'd get a few digs in at the crazy leftist protesters (the fact that the specific person was a transvestite made it all the better, as the media that you so correctly castigate loves it when the protesters are members of groups considered outside the mainstream, be they hippies, transvestites, whatever), make a quick comment at the end, "Oh and by the way, Ms. Plame said that she was covert when the White House blew her cover and destroyed her career and a quarter century of intelligence work," and that's the report on the Plame hearing.

In fact, they're helping the fascist media by making a spectacle, being a distraction, and validating the stereotype that only the "dirty fucking hippies" and the like are against Dear President and his war. They're just as much a distraction from the real issues as the latest "missing white woman" is.