Thursday, July 5, 2007 |
00:10 - I beg your pardon
http://kipaji.livejournal.com/105036.html
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Everybody's making identical hay over what would seem to be the perfect illustration for the narrative of the decade:
Back when the investigation into the leak of Valerie Plame Wilson’s identity began, Mr. Bush insisted that if anyone in his administration had violated the law, “that person will be taken care of.” Now we know what he meant.
I guess this is what happens when you treat history like a fantasy novel. Mustn't let facts get in the way of a good one-liner, must we?
I mean, criminy—this is the first time I've even heard about the whole Plame thing since it was revealed that the person actually responsible for the leak wasn't someone the media had wanted to roast. First it was the Scandal of the Century, then suddenly it disappeared, for months. And now it's all over the news again, because Bush waved his Dark Wand of Absolution and commuted Libby's Texas-style death sentence? Sheesh.
The revelation that Armitage was the source of Novak's column is somewhat anticlimactic for Bush administration critics who had used the story as a weapon in Washington's partisan battles.
As though Joe Wilson's testimony had the slightest importance with regard to the case for war, or Valerie Plame's identity had the slightest significance to anybody but her and Wilson. As presidency-a-sploding bombshells go, this is pathetic stuff. This whole stupid national obsession looks to me like what would happen if people had decided to try to bring down Hitler's regime by accusing some Vice-Goebbels' aide—falsely—of cheating on his wife. It's like, don't you have anything better to nail these guys with?
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