Posted on 12/05/2006 11:07:48 PM PST by STARWISE
Inside the Beltway
"Very odd," says our source. "They sat at a table in the back."
Referring to the intriguing trio of Pennsylvania Republican Sen. Arlen Specter, former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, and his wife, Valerie Plame, of CIA-leak fame,
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
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Now what in blazes could be going on here?
HUH?
they like steak?
It worked!
Mission accomplished!
What next?!
What is it that ... worked?
ping
Specter always seems to be darting around on the fringes of stories that appear to have many more chapters than we know. And we never know any more as a result.
????????????
Isnt this covered in Scottish law or something?
ping
That's just weird!
Specter is just weird--his speech, his thought processes (obvious from his speaking process), his voice, his face--all of it.
His politics are worse than weird. How could people vote for him--worse yet, how could the Repub hotshots and big boys support him? Supporting people
like him and Chaffee is what makes patsies out of repubs. It is tooooo stupid.
Vaudine
I'll see that and raise you a "HUH?"
This is a Spector/Dem...Dem/Spector problem, requiring a Spector/Dem...Dem/Spector solution---to coin a phrase from an 'ol Seinfeld episode.
Arlen Specter is the POS who was pushing - no doubt still is pushing- for a media shield law, otherwise known as the Propgandists' Shield Law.
The Plame/Wilson/Slimes/WashPo freakshow was all about shielding the media and the truly dangerous leakers of national intelligence from any and all accountability. They must be free to lie and deceive abut to them freedom isn't enough- they must DENY legitimacy to all competitors.
And by competitors they mean us. We, the people...
They want to create a new class of citizen- by depriving all other American citizens of our own personal status as fully fledged members of "the free press" -reporters in our own right armed with pen, soapbox, and these days, the blogosphere. They don't want upstart bloggers getting press passes and invitations to news conferences, being able to hold back our sources like they want to do, etc, and they certainly don't want common citizens to gain sufficient notoriety in their reporting. If everyone is a reporter then "sources" may bypass the old media and seek out alternate media and get news out without having it filtered by the established media giants.
Remember how outraged the various houses of presstitution were over Talon News getting a seat in the White House Press Corp? How dare the peasants aspire to the sacred guild of the elite... they ranted, smeared, and raved until Talon News was silenced.
The "old media" is an endangered species- and they know it -so they seek to be deified and set apart from the masses of proles with keyboards so they can lie unhindered and the public will be denied a voice, barred from getting press passes for one-man media outlets and denied legitimacy.
With a shield law I suppose thy will need a registration system of some sort where so-called "real" media reporters or press outlets can preregister and obtain the benefits of being able to use anonymous sources without risking contempt of court charges while all others deemed "less than media" such as bloggers will go without, subject to the law if a court asks for their documentation in a criminal investigation. So sources would have to go exclusively to the major media to remain anonymous.
People vote for all kinds of candidates that others don't understand, so don't expect an explanation; especially from me. LOL
What YOU and others here have to understand, is that in some places ( R.I. being one of them ) the chances of getting the populace to elect even a mildly conservative GOPer is none to nil.
erk...Propagandists
Psssssssssssssssssssst......and FWITW, anyone who talks about "real conservatives", the way you do, isn't one!
Political Incest...
Does Specter have connections to the casino industry by any chance?
They were consuming a dish of crow.
Maybe Specter was looking for tips on trading in heavy metals.
I don't know. SORRY!
I think piasa is correct and it has something to do with this:
Reporters and Federal Subpoenas
As reporters facing contempt charges in a number of federal cases around the country, Congress is taking its first serious look at a reporter's shield law in decades.
Current as of: 11/29/06
Federal shield law efforts
Status: Awaiting new proposed legislation from the 110th Congress in 2007.
This is interesting, too:
Specter: White House needs to explain leak
Former diplomat says administration engaging in disinformation
This is all going to be handled by the new Democrat congress as part of their "ethics" reform. Spector is fishing for information about what Rove/Libby may have done that could be construed as unethical.
Of course the Wilsons are glad to get a free steak dinner and fill Spectors head with more crap.
My opinion is Reid will be going after Rove/Libby again to take the pressure off himself. The Wilsons are another prop. Dang, I thought they would just go away.
Arlen Specter: biggest male RINO in the Senate once Chafee is gone.
specter is a sphincter....... a true a-hole!!!!
Perhaps they had some Haggis.
Excellent points - SPECTRE is a strong proponent of such a "media shield law" and it would do a lot to protect scumbags like Joe and Valerie, so they have a mutual interest in working together on it.....
The fact that any "Republican" would come anywhere near Joe and Valerie, for any purpose but to spit in their faces, shows both how little grasp of the real issues people like SPECTRE have, and how bad a job Republicans have done in getting out the real story of Pflamegate.
Of course, in the face of a propagandistic MSM, a dishonest 'Rat prosecutor like Fitzy, weasels like SPECTRE and Chafee, etc. it has been a steep uphill struggle, but now I fear the chances of any real investigation of Pflamegate have diminished just about to zero.
bttt
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