I was just watching a story on CNN about how Iran is backing al-Sadr in Iraq and rattling the sabre of its own missile technology. After it ended, instead of going into any sort of analysis or other obviously relevant follow-up, Wolf Blitzer immediately segued into an in-studio interview with the liar Joe Wilson about whether reporters should give up their sources in the so-called Plame Scandal.
What does that have to do with anything?
CNN is full of crap for giving this obvious liar a platform to wonder aloud about the legality and ethics of reporters' rights to protect their sources. Ordinarily, Leftists are big on such protections, but not when they think they have some points to score against Bushitler.
Wilson, who has the Caesarian habit of referring to himself in the third person, is hungry for vindication, but he's the one to blame for exposing his wife to questions about her connections. That's because he took it upon himself to write himself into Big Media's attack on this Administration by blabbing about his CIA-sponsored fact-finding trip to Niger. He wasn't qualified to do the job and Robert Novak wondered why. How did some washed-up former ambassador from the Clinton Administration without any intelligence experience get such an assignment? Was it nepotism? Did he know someone who got him the job? Sure enough, he did. Who would it have been? A natural question that was easily answered. But Wilson lied about it. He denied that his wife was responsible for getting him the assignment.
Remember: Wilson didn't have to say anything about his trip to Niger. But he and Plame are Bush-haters and Wilson wanted to get in on the action by writing a bunch of lies in the New York Times. Was that right? Did he betray his confidences? Sure he did. And it turns out that what he said was false. The recent report from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence said so and so did the Butler Inquiry.
No sympathy for you, Joe. You wanted to get your 15 minutes and now you're getting a whole lot more: an international reputation as a liar (at least among those who get their information from places besides Wolf Blitzer and 60 Minutes) and as an incompetent axe-grinder. Nice work. Maybe Jean le Kerry will give you another post once he lies his way into the White House with the help of anti-American shithooks like you.