Posted by
Soldier Dad on Friday, September 01, 2006 11:11:32 AM
The
Washington Post ran a piece today about the end of the Valerie Plame drama. They lament their “oft-stated belief that far too much attention and debate in Washington has been devoted to her story and that of her husband, former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, over the past three years.” The last line reads, “It's unfortunate that so many people took [Wilson] seriously.”
I’d like to know – if the Washington Post didn’t take them seriously, then they sure have a funny way of showing it. A brief archive search of “Plame” and “Wilson” turns up 296 articles. That’s one article every 3.7 days! For three years!
I can’t imagine why they would believe that so many people took them seriously.
Liberal pundits and the elite establishment spent years harping on (what they thought was) the biggest scandal to hit the Bush Administration.
[I DIGRESS…]
The biggest scandal would have been those National Guard papers that Dan Rather trotted out on primetime television. But that one fizzled soon after the story proved to have more holes than Swiss cheese, and ended up fatally wounding Rather’s career.
[END DIGRESSION]
I have a hunch that this story will die soon, and that no one is planning on following up on the obvious nepotism that took place between Plame and Wilson so that he could fabricate stories about how Saddam Hussein’s henchmen were shopping for mangoes, not uranium, in Niger.
The end of this affair is important for security-minded Americans because it leads to the greater question: how can we continue trusting conventional news outlets?
With a media such as this, who needs enemies?