The Joe and Valerie show

L. A. Times ^ | 8 MARCH 2007 | Jonah Goldberg

[radar101]

Libby was convicted, but the Wilsons are the ones profiting from dishonesty.

SURE, SURE, "Scooter" Libby might go to jail. His career is in tatters, his life a shambles. Even Denis Collins, the omnipresent juror-journalist, says he and his peers feel sympathy for Libby, the "fall guy" in this whole spectacle. But really, who is the real victim?

Joe and Valerie, of course.

The golden couple targeted by White House machine," as described by one British paper this week, have had to put up with so much. There's no need to dwell on the early hardships faced by former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV: that arduous junket to Niger helped along by his wife, Valerie Plame; the endless cups of sweet mint tea he had to drink; the awkwardness that his findings, as privately briefed to the CIA, supported President Bush's famous "16 words" although he said the exact opposite on the New York Times Op-Ed page and in 12 trillion television studios.

The Great Dissenter's burden doesn't end there. Joe wanted to appear on equal footing, as befits his stature, with Katie Couric on the "Today" show. Instead he was stuck in D.C., and his "one chance to sit face to face with America's sweetheart" was dashed. And it must have been those cheap partisans who forced the ambassador to sell himself to the John Kerry campaign, to call for the frog-marching of Karl Rove, to call Weekly Standard Editor Bill Kristol a "drunk." Joe's a statesman, darn it!

[Red Badger]

Heard this POS on Bohannon Last night. What a liar! I had to turn on sports radio............

[Rummyfan]

You mean Wilson? He's the one who should have been prosecuted.

[Red Badger]

Yes, wilson. I cannot believe JimBo had him on the show.........

[NorCalRepub]

....Even the Washington Post in an Editorial yesterday called Wilson a blowhard and liar....the Senate Investigating Committee did too....He lives in a world of beltway myopia....

[cake_crumb]

The only reason for Fitzie's dog and poney show was to make the Bush administration look bad. They destroyed Libby for DNC gain. In the end, the facts that Cheney is still not "a person of interest" in this case - his personal opinions about that jumped up media whore and his wife notwithstanding - and that what Libby was finally convicted of had nothing to do with the ACATUAL INVESTIGATION.

I still stand by my opinion that WILSON outted his wife. He should be prosecuted because HE'S the "leak". Libby should be pardoned.

[Red Badger]

If WaPo, et al, have branded him a liar and all, then why is he being given the Rock Star treatment? He's being put forth as the Prophet for The Martyr Valerie...........

[NorCalRepub]

......simple....the MSM overlook that and just want a sympathy story from old Joe....

[Red Badger]

THAT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE...........

[NorCalRepub]

....of course it doesn't....since when does the MSM have to make sense....they covet anyone that brings a Republican down.....

[Red Badger]

Alice had never such a nightmare as this..............up is down, down is sideways and right is wrong.................

[cake_crumb]

I makes sense when you figure the Democrats spent SOOOOO much time, effort and money on creating this entire fantasy. They can't back down now, because it wouldn't look good. The media has spent an equal amount of time and effort. And we've all seen the polls showing that most reporters are liberals, and we KNOW where the media gets it's talking points.

Besides, the movie will probably be out shortly.

[freespirited]

He should be prosecuted because HE'S the "leak".

What leak? Natasha hadn't been covert for years.

Sure no one is supposed to leak "classified" information, but people do it everyday and no one is prosecuted.

This was a CIA trap to embarrass the Administration. And the Administration walked right into it.