Some backup for what I wrote the other day.
New York Post July 29, 2004 -- DEMOCRAT John Kerry's campaign yesterday gave a ringing endorsement to Bush-bashing Ambassador Joe Wilson — even though a bipartisan Senate committee just found so many holes in his story that even his own wife won't back it up. Wilson claimed President Bush lied about whether Saddam Hussein was seeking yellowcake uranium from Niger, and Wilson knew it because the CIA sent him there. The Senate report says, if anything, the truth is the opposite of what Wilson claimed. But that doesn't seems to bother the Kerryites, who yesterday hailed Wilson's "integrity" and said he's still very much a part of the team that Kerry hopes will make him commander in chief. "Joe Wilson has served for many months as an informal adviser to the Kerry campaign and continues to do so," said Kerry foreign policy adviser Susan Rice.
It is amazing how the MSM completely bury this fact in their accounts.
KING: And is that why you joined the Kerry campaign?Have you ever endorsed a candidate before?
WILSON: I have never been honored. I've never been invited to endorse a candidate before. I'm just a simple civic servant. I was foreign service officer. I was an political appointee for George Herbert Walker Bush. I was very comfortable in that role. I was very comfortable when we did the first Gulf War. I make that clear in the book.
KING: Scowcroft and all...
WILSON: Scowcroft, and Jim baker...
KING: Cheney.
WILSON: Well, Cheney, I didn't know. As, he likes to point out he never met Joe Wilson, I'm equally pleased to point out I never met Dick Cheney. Well, certainly, Scowcroft and the president and Jim Baker.
KING: So why have you endorsed John Kerry?
No only endorsed you're working for him.
WILSON: Well, no I'm not working for him in the sense that I'm not drawing a salary. What I have done, I have endorsed him and I serve on an advisory committee that advises the campaign, that advises the foreign policy adviser. That's a policy thing.