So now it's all Wilson's Fault WP

[raysr]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/24/AR2005102401690.html

[xray s]

1. Milbank in Full Metal Media Whore mode

the end must be close at hand

[Halliburton]

2. Milbank is an ass

[Trajan]

3. Aint gonna read it ....

SURELY you can provide a single sentence ....

The title ? ...

Sheeesh ....

I aint LAZY .. Im on dial up ... with little time ...

[saltpoint]

4. Of course it's Joe Wilson's fault.

He had NO right to tell the truth about Hussein and the Niger yellow cake, and even LESS right to love his wife and rise to her defense when she was outed.

My god don't you just HATE public servants who put personal integrity and dutiful citizenship above the selfish, mean-spirited agenda of the Bush administration?

[Union Thug]

5. Publicity efforts? What kind of moron editor allows this bullshit

to go to press?

Pretty lame. Pretty pathetic. Pretty desperate.

[alittlelark]

6. Quite the smear...

To his backers, Joseph C. Wilson IV is a brave whistle-blower wronged by the Bush administration. To his critics, he is a partisan who spouts unreliable information.

But nobody disputes this: Possessed of a flamboyant style and a love for the camera lens, Wilson helped propel the unmasking of his wife's identity as a CIA operative into a sprawling, two-year legal probe that climaxes this week with the possible indictment of key White House officials. He also turned an arcane matter involving the Intelligence Identities Protection Act into a proxy fight over the administration's credibility and its case for war in Iraq.


exerpt..

Joseph Wilson, husband of outed CIA officer Valerie Plame, has not been camera-shy since Plame's identity was leaked. (By David Paul Morris -- Getty Images)
Understanding the Plame Affair
Key Players in the Plame Investigation Analysis and biographies on the main individuals involved in the investigation of the leak of Valerie Plame's identity to the press.
Background on the Plame Investigation

Also beyond dispute is the fact that the little-known diplomat took maximum advantage of his 15 minutes of fame. Wilson has been a fixture on the network and cable news circuit for two years -- from "Meet the Press" to "Imus in the Morning" to "The Daily Show." He traveled west and lunched with the likes of Norman Lear and Warren Beatty.

He published a book, "The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies that Led to War and Betrayed My Wife's CIA Identity." He persuaded his wife, Valerie Plame, to appear with him in a January 2004 Vanity Fair photo spread, in which the two appeared in his Jaguar convertible.

[emulatorloo]

7. sadly for all republican spinners, this isn't about Joe Wilson. . .

It is about Karl, Scooter, Bush and Cheney and the lengths they were willing to go to get thier precious Iraq war.

[Montauk6]

8. Of course! Wilson masterminded the outing.

Sure, it makes PERFECTLY good sense. Wilson's got a mistress* and they conspired to out Plame in the hopes that she would get whacked and they could run off to Cancun with the insurance money.


*Mistress to be revealed in The Drudge Report.

[Lex]

9. Did the White House leak Plame's name? Were there WMDs?

Did Niger sell uranium to Iraq?


These questions are all more important than whether Wilson is a camera hog or publicity hound.

[chalky]

17. Amen. I don't give a flying rat's ass if LIBERACE himself rose from

the grave and pointed out the traitorous bastards during a Vegas stage show.

The only paragraph of value in that entire piece of tripe is this:

Wilson's central assertion -- disputing President Bush's 2003 State of the Union claim that Iraq was seeking nuclear material in Niger -- has been validated by postwar weapons inspections. And his charge that the administration exaggerated the threat posed by Iraq has proved potent.

The rest is the usual media whore hackery.

[Ksec]

10. Hes trying to be the Judy Miller of the Post.

All flash , no substance or accuracy

[Coexist]

11. Loads of info trying to debunk, and one tiny little supporting sentence:

"The CIA has always said, however, that Plame's superiors chose Wilson for the Niger trip and she only relayed their decision."

[marylanddem]

12. Judy Milbank reporting for duty, sir! n/t

[applegrove]

13. Wilson's fault the truth comes out. SHAME SHAME SHAME.

[stevedeshazer]

14. Ridiculous.

"But nobody disputes this: Possessed of a flamboyant style and a love for the camera lens, Wilson helped propel the unmasking of his wife's identity as a CIA operative into a sprawling, two-year legal probe that climaxes this week with the possible indictment of key White House officials."

Well guess what, Spin Monkey, SO WHAT?

[tularetom]

15. Even if Wilson was a CIA plant

put in place as an agent provocateur to get bush or his hirelings to break the law the fact remains the law was broken. Wilson did nothing to force them to out his wife. In some ways it would be funnier if the CIA had set the admin up in retalitation for bush trashing their agency. These asswipes have raised denial to an art form and mediawhores like milbank are complicit.

[Scout1071]

16. Always been Joe's fault, didn't you know? Gotta learn to keep your

freakin' mouth shut. I'm watching Good Fellas at this very moment. These Bush Administration characters remind me of gangsters. I see Cheney, Bush and Co. saying "You fuck with me - I fuck with you." The orders went out and bada bing. That thing got done.

[Zynx]

18. That was a balanced piece.....of BULLSHIT.

The article was about 99.99999999% anti-Wilson. Dana Milbank and Walter Pincus should be ashamed of themselves.

[DeepModem Mom]

19. And why did Walter Pincus allow his name on this hit piece? nt

[Pirate Smile]

20. How much of the crap they like to cite from the Senate Intelligence

Report on this was from the Addendum which was only signed by three GOP Senators?

[bpilgrim]

21. he got the RW BS down pat - must be nice to be a high paid shill

very lame since Mr. Wilson's findings were corroborated by multiple sources & the neoCONs arguments have all been proven false yet some 'fair & balanced' reporters supposedly still ain't gotta clue :puke:


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peace

[Warren Stupidity]

22. Hmmm....

"Now, amid speculation that prosecutors could bring charges against White House officials this week, Republicans preparing a defense of the administration are reviving the debate about Wilson's credibility and integrity."

Republicans such as Dana Milbank and Walter Pincus? What a pair of transparently vile shitheads.

[Cults4Bush]

23. Ahh Dana you just couldn't help youself could you... why?

I mean when you did the hit piece on Conyers DSMs meeting you had so many wondering why. ... I doubt you'll give any good answers but I am not going to forget that fucking hit piece Dana, nor will I forget this.

[Warren DeMontague]

24. What an ASTOUNDING CROCK OF SHIT you've discovered!

Yes. A crime-ridden White House, an illegal war pushed onto the American Public with a shoddy set of cheap lies.. screw all that! Let's smear the dude whose smearing started all this in the first place!

After all, what Wilson REALLY did was commit the worst sin of all- he contradicted Lord Dubya, in public.

This story reminds me of something, though, that I heard all the time during the latter part of the Clinton years.

It's not about Joe Wilson's flamboyant fucking style...
It's about the RULE OF LAW, remember, Dana?

RULE OF LAW! RULE OF LAW! RULE OF LAW!

[Garbo 2004]

25. See Dana, that's what's so deliciously ironic. If the Administration had

not gone after Wilson and his wife....THERE WOULD BE NO SCANDAL!

Instead the geniuses of the Adminstration went after Wilson and his wife and managed to blow the cover of a CIA covert agent working on antiproliferation of WMD and a CIA front company! Generally, this is not considered a good or smart thing to do.

And so blaming Wilson for the scandal is rather like blaming the victim of an attack rather than the attacker. Strange.

Might as well blame that CIA too, those whiners: they actually filed a crime report with the FBI. And the FBI investigated. And then the DOJ called in a special prosecutor.

None of which would have been possible if the administration had instead chosen to just blow it off and let Wilson have his few minutes of fame until the media find something else to talk about like Michael Jackson or something equally of national import.

When it's a fed investigation and possible grand jury indictments, Wilson really is irrelevant. Either crimes were committed or not and the evidence of that is what matters.

And yeah, what is Pincus doing having his name on this? Milbank is no surprise, but Pincus knows better.

[raysr]

26. See, it's like this,

when the pukes lie it's OK, because lying IS WHAT THEY DO!!! When Bill lied it was BAD, because that's not what WE do!

[William Seger]

27. Totally worthless retread of the same old Rove-authored talking points

Hard to believe that the WP and the NYT used to be the foremost newspapers in the country, ain't it.

[walldude]

28. So the crime was an "arcane matter"

and Wilson is unreliable. Funny, he was reliable enough to send to Niger to gather evidence for the shrub's war. They are so full of shit, and they are screwing themselves over by claiming that he's unreliable. If he is "a partisan who spouts unreliable information" and his credibility and integrity were in question then the Administration was negligent in sending him to Niger on a fact finding mission that could have, and did put the lives of our troops in jeopardy, let them hang themselves if they want. Morans.

[raysr]

29. Why did Bush-Daddy

like him so much if he's such a hack?

[garybeck]

30. GEESH, is that an editorial or a "news article?"

gmafb!

i guess the WP really is nothing but a piece of trash. if someone turned that in to a middle school english teacher, she'd laugh at it. "No one can dispute..." What BS. I dispute. Am I no one? As a matter of fact, anyone who doesn't have their head up their ass would dispute half the things in that article.