Now they tell us


Where was the Washington Post a few years ago when Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame were headlines?
I am glad to see this. But I wish The Washington Post had run this years ago, it would have prevented a mess.

It follows that one of the most sensational charges leveled against the Bush White House -- that it orchestrated the leak of Ms. Plame's identity to ruin her career and thus punish Mr. Wilson -- is untrue. The partisan clamor that followed the raising of that allegation by Mr. Wilson in the summer of 2003 led to the appointment of a special prosecutor, a costly and prolonged investigation, and the indictment of Vice President Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, on charges of perjury. All of that might have been avoided had Mr. Armitage's identity been known three years ago.

If the political objective of "getting Bush" had not overrun the journalistic and editorial standards of most of the press, this story would have been dismissed. It never would have made it to the front page.

It never SHOULD have even hit the papers, except to show that Wilson could not be trusted.

Again, this doesn't excuse the Bush Administration. But it is not enough to support someone because they are making the right noises. The evidence has to be there. The Democrats can't afford wish fulfillment. When these spectacular accusations get more press time than the real wrongdoings, it all gets lost in the noise. Then when the "big issues" are shown to be false, the assumption is that ALL criticism is just hype.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Sat - September 2, 2006 at 05:36 PM  Tag


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