SPEAK!
Posted on 07/16/2005 9:37:20 AM PDT by Checkers
mmmm... David Corn frog marched out of The Nation in handcuffs...interesting image (hypothetically speaking)
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
"Joe Wilson is like the arsonist who photographs the crime he has committed and ejaculates at the sight of the fiery spectacle."
Do you have an analogy for Mr. Corn?
Well, consider the source is Corn; I don't think ferrets have very good hearing/reading skills.
I can just see that schmuck Wilson oh so cleverly making the hypothetical supposition that his wife is a secret agent to a writer for the Communist Nation.
This surely wasn't part of the game plan. The original idea, I'm sure, was to work through "authoritative MSM" sources like the NY Times. But Wilson is so convinced that he is the consummate wily diplomat that he outsmarted himself--again. How this guy ever got a job as a diplomat in the first place is a sad commentary on the judgment of the folks who run the State Department.
This whole episode fits right in with that famous picture of Joe and Val in Vanity Fair, with that big smirk on his face while he flashes his chic jewelry.
I clicked your link and all I got was a black screen.. Must've have been a link directly into his mind. :)
Another follow-up by Cliff May: http://corner.nationalreview.com/05_07_10_corner-archive.asp#069737
RE DAVID CORN
My friend David Corn is hopping mad and he’s calling me names and questioning my motives. I understand that. I feel his anger.
But he hasn’t actually challenged any of the facts or analysis in my piece.
Except one: He is arguing that providing the name of a CIA employee – or operative -- is the same as exposing the identity of a CIA covert agent.
Now that may play out in the boondocks among people who have never known anyone who worked at the CIA and who assume that everyone at CIA has a secret identity and works for a CIA front.
But anyone with any knowledge or experience knows that is it doesn’t work like that.
The facts are these: (1) Bob Novak did not say that Valerie Plame was a secret agent; (2) David Corn did; (3) we don’t know who Bob’s sources were; (4) we know David’s source was Joe Wilson.
The rest is commentary.
No the whine is right there. You are however correct with the second part of your post. :)
Another follow-up from Cliff May:
http://corner.nationalreview.com/05_07_10_corner-archive.asp#069740
CORN STRIKES BACK [Cliff May]
On his blog, David Corn attempts to rebut my NRO piece. I don’t think he gets very far but it’s here so you can judge for yourself.
His major argument is that Bob Novak reporting that Joe Wilson’s assignment for the CIA came about because Wilson’s wife, Valerie Plame, a CIA operative, recommended him, is no different from David Corn revealing that Valerie Pame was a “top-secret” CIA agent.
He adds: “Once Valerie Wilson's name appeared in Novak's column, her days as a CIA undercover official were done.”
But why would that be? If the day after Novak’s column came out, Valerie Plame, CIA analyst at CIA HQ in Langley, were to disappear, and Mallory Flame, arms dealer, were to arrive in Istanbul with a passport and contacts and a “legend,” how would anyone make the connection?
They could not, nor would anyone who had worked with Plame in the past know anything --assuming that when Plame had been under cover she had used false identities.
However, once Wilson told Corn – and Corn published -- that Plame was not just a CIA analyst but a secret agent with an extensive network of contacts, and once she and Joe posed for pictures in Vanity Fair, her career as an undercover spy was indeed over.
BTW, he also says I ignored his notes to me. In fact, I published them all, though not in the story but here in the Corner under the title “Reporters’ Notebooks.”
He also continues to deny that Wilson was his source. So how did he know things that Novak didn’t report? He doesn’t tell us, he just says things llike, “the story was that Valerie worked for an energy firm…”
The story? Whose story? Novak didn’t tell this story? Who did? What was the source?
David Corn is a partisan hack, and always has been. He has failed on TV, radio and newspapers. Corn has been absent from anything near the MSM for years, and NOW he's some sort of expert? I don't buy it. Corn is a third to tenth tier Democrat shill, if anything at all, and he does not deserve respect or attention for normal news analysis. Corn was on-air in Denver and his ratings were so low he couldn't get recognized even wearing a sign on his head.
Because of the Plame affair I've now seen Corn on FNC being interviewed. What a waste of air time, and it's apparent the Democrats are running up trial balloons to see if they can get any traction with the public. The public has seen through the rest of these Democrat bit players so I guess it's Corn's turn to try fooling the viewing public.
It's not that Corn lies, per se. He actually has selective knowledge that filters out truth and accepts everything the left can feed him, ala Juan Williams and his weekly Democrat talking point memos. Only worse. Williams can sometimes accept logic whereas Corn sits there with a blank stare on his face as logic flies by him, going over his head.
Corn is evidently the first to publish the "Plame is a covert agent" story. So now he's stuck with it.
bttt
Perfidia
Joe helped the Islamicists' side,
When he wrote that the President lied
The Times spread his tale
Please keep them in jail
And, certainly, Joe should be fried.
I hope the Grand Jury calls David Cornholer to make him testify.
His testimony would be, "Mr. Wilson and I spoke in hypotheticals." And the members of the Grand Jury would sit there looking at each other.
Shouldn't Val Plame also be fired?
Maybe a warrant should be made for the arrest of Joseph C Wilson IV.
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