Revisiting Clown Wilson's Calamity

The Joe Wilson/Liberal media debacle is worth revisiting for the rich tapestry of truth that has been exposed within Mr. Wilson’s and Senator Schumer’s tangled web. As much as the media touted, exploited, and overplayed this contrived plot that is so well-matched for a tabloid excursion, the journalists have not been at all interested in revisiting the embarrassing facts revealed as Wilson’s grand production became a tattered fairy-tale. It is well worth it for all of us who are sick and tired of the media’s repetitive mantra that Karl Rove and the Bush administration had broken the law and leaked the name of a secret CIA operative. Clown Wilson should consider moving to Hollywood (they already adore him), and working in idea and script development. His imagination is obviously brilliant and fiction is his forte. As Hollywood and Michael Moore develop their moonbat fantasies into movies that they affectionately refer to as documentaries, Wilson and his subordinate wife, Valerie Plame, could certainly develop second vocations, and live happily after with the over-population of liberals in America’s entertainment Mecca.

The unrelenting Ann Coulter has been on the story since day one. Oh how her enemies hate it when she is right all along. From the beginning, Ann smelled a rat, and the truth turned out to be worse than she suspected.

Now it turns out, even point No. 3 of liberals' conspiracy theory was false: The original "leaker" of Plame's name to columnist Bob Novak -- not a crime -- was not in the White House at all. It was Richard Armitage, a State Department official and opponent of the Iraq war.
The information that Wilson's wife worked at the CIA had nothing to do with harming Wilson. It did not come from the White House. It did not even come from someone who supported the war in Iraq.
The rest of the world found out Armitage was Novak's source last week, something Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald knew from the first week of his investigation. So what was Fitzgerald investigating?
Even people who think the president should not be subject to civil suits in office do not deny that Bill Clinton had an affair with Monica Lewinsky and lied about it in a civil suit brought by Paula Jones. However irritating it is to liberals that lying about sex under oath is a crime, there was a crime that Ken Starr was investigating.
What was Fitzgerald investigating? Not only was there no underlying crime, there was not even -- as the Times put it -- "an attempt to silence Mrs. Wilson's husband" (or an attempt "to respond to people calling you a liar in the New York Times," as normal people put it).
Fitzgerald's entire investigation was nothing but a perjury trap from beginning to end for anyone who misremembered anything about who told whom what about a low-level nobody at the CIA who happened to be married to a Walter Mitty fantasist.

One would think that the liberal media could admit the mistake and correct the record. David Broder comes close in today’s Washington Post.

Of course it is of no benefit to the deranged hate-Bush crowd, however, dignity, ethical behavior, and the very lining of our nation’s dialogue has been harmed by the amplification of Wilson’s strident and libelous statements. Admission of the errors in the matter would go a long way toward restoring faith in a mainstream media that seems a lot more like a promoter of fictionalized tales that supplant a liberal agenda than being a responsible part of the public discourse. Wilson’s close association with the democrat party leadership should be enough to convince voters not to elect Sherrod Brown and other liberal voices this November.

Others on the topic: Brent Bozell, The Muslim Question, Mark Levin, Ankle Biting Pundits, Webloggin', The American Spectator, From on High.