Hugh Hewitt links to Rowan Scarborough's obituary of the Plame "scandal" and has a fun idea:
Perhaps Tom Maguire or some other accomplished Plameologist will provide for us sideliners a convenient scorecard of those whose names ought never to appear in print except as accompanied by the phrase "who was so memorably taken in by Joe Wilson" or "who, it must be remembered, believed deeply in Fitzmas."
Such a list would be long, and the work hard, but what a service to have in one place, easily linked to, a comprehensive listing of the easily fooled.
That sort of project surely appeals to my dark, malicious heart. Now, I could never do this project justice working alone but, as no one ever said, you're never alone if you are talking the Plame Game at Just One Minute.
So how about it - I bet the regular commenters can come up with a comprehensive list pretty quickly. I picture at least three categories - politicos, journalists, and bloggers. But if more categories make sense, speak up.
And a link to the nominees "Best Effort" would be great.
MORE: I'm stuck - I say "Keith Olbermann" and can't even type for laughing. Larissa Russkie at Raw Story. (Or was that Larissa Badenov? Oh, dear...)
Lou Dobbs anyone?
During his multiple years of "selling out America" stories, on numerous occasions he has hosted discussions about Plamegate as an example of the White House "selling out America".
David Shuster gets my vote. It's not entirely his fault that he tops my list. I just happen to get home from work at the same time his lying starts in his nightly reports.
There's a bevy of former spook com members that were behind Plame the entire time. Start with Admiral Stansfield Turner, bring in Ray McGovern and the VIPS crew, then branch out and reel in the retired General's PR fronts.
The House Democrats list is going to be very long. The congressional record is litterred with PLame citations.
Posted by: Gabriel Sutherland | September 06, 2006 at 01:19 PM
So it appears that the IRS started an investigation into Cisneros tax records, which apparently DOJ couldn't touch until they decided to refer to DOJ, which I assume never happened, so Barrett was not able to dig as deep as he wanted to.
Cute scheme. Using the IRS as a shield.
Posted by: Neo | September 06, 2006 at 01:20 PM
I am one who thinks the Clintonian conspiracies are as nonexistent as the Bush/Cheney/Rovian ones are. Presidents and their staffs are generally neither as clever, nor as venal, as their political opponents paint them amongst each other.
The above generality in the second sentence is true to a certain extent as most generalities are. But to lump the Clinton's in with other administrations flies in the face of a mountain of both circumstantial and direct evidence of systemic corruption and abuse of power at nearly every level of the Clinton administration.
Posted by: Barney Frank | September 06, 2006 at 01:28 PM
Clarice:
The book is a must, accurate & droll would make a welcome change from the usual droning political fare. TM could call it "Hubris: the Selling of Joe Wilson" or "Hubris: Selling a President Down the River" -- but, thankfully, he wouldn't! I'll help with the graphics.
In the meantime, I'd settle for an updated summary we could send around to reporters. I find the obligatory set-up paragraphs now in almost universal use increasingly annoying.
Posted by: JM Hanes | September 06, 2006 at 01:36 PM
BarneyFrank:
I agree wholeheartedly with your conclusions regarding the Clinton Whie House. There was more going on there than the Lewinsky scandal. Hillary was up to her eyeballs in the Travel Office scandal, Rose Law Firm Records, Vince Foster and Ron Brown"s fates and confidential IRS files found on prominent republicans at the W.H. In President Bush's 6 years you don't hear about any goofy stuff like this.
Posted by: maryrose | September 06, 2006 at 01:55 PM
Joe Wilson's publisher, who named his book (snicker) "The Politics of Truth."
No, sorry I can't hold it at a snicker.
BWAHAHAHAAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Posted by: TallDave | September 06, 2006 at 01:55 PM
Wasn't there some blogger named Glenn something (not Reynolds) that we could add to the list? Can't remember his name, but I do recall he had a Brazillian boyfriend and was once had his stuff read on the Senate floor....
Posted by: equitus | September 06, 2006 at 02:09 PM
>The book is a must, accurate & droll
And pithy. You have to cull all the minutia down so people like me don't get lost while still making your point. I'm happy to edit as long as there is a staff of hundreds. I like JM's suggestion about a summary.
Wasn't there some blogger named Glenn something
Greenwald.
Posted by: Jane | September 06, 2006 at 02:16 PM
Here, I present delicious excerpts from Paul Krugman, Maureen Down, Nicholas Kristof and the editors of the New York Times. Krugman's column is the best. In fact, it's a classic.
Posted by: Engram | September 06, 2006 at 02:21 PM
JMH, I'm working on a piece for the Weekly Standard on the case itself, but if you'all can twist TM's arms, I'm game.
(If Libby is Dreyfus and Armitage Esterhazy(the real spy)who's Hubert Henry (the guy who framed Dreyfus by inserting false documents in his file to frame him)? Grossman?
Posted by: clarice | September 06, 2006 at 02:24 PM
There's a special place in hell--and in any book--for Armitage and Powell, who have no parallels that I can think of in the Drefus affair.
Posted by: Other Tom | September 06, 2006 at 02:31 PM
Engram, nicely done! I believe Don Surber also did a nice compendium to remind the amnesiacs at the NYT editorial desk what they overlooked in their own archives.
Posted by: clarice | September 06, 2006 at 02:31 PM
Greenwald
Thanks, Jane. I knew that but was trying to be funny.
Still, I find it interesting that his name is hardly mentioned these days.
(And no, I'm not his sock-puppet.)
Posted by: equitus | September 06, 2006 at 02:32 PM
You must include Crown Publishing PR team and blurb writers. . . but be careful. I dare you to read it all the way through in one sitting without heaving.
HUBRIS: The Press Release
Posted by: sbw | September 06, 2006 at 02:33 PM
The Politics of Truth
Posted by: Neo | September 06, 2006 at 02:33 PM
---Joe Wilson's publisher, who named his book (snicker) "The Politics of Truth."
No, sorry I can't hold it at a snicker.
BWAHAHAHAAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!--
---------------
Also, John Kerry, for hiring WIlson for political hits and sponsoring what has now become THIS!
Posted by: topsecretk9 | September 06, 2006 at 02:39 PM
TM:
Consider your arm officially twisted. You have my vote to collaborate with Clarice to write the book about Plame Mania.
Posted by: maryrose | September 06, 2006 at 02:42 PM
The Mandarinate Uprising?
Drums along the Potomac?
Pinched:How the NYT and Assorted Moonbats Pulled Off the Greatest Post-Stalinist Disinformation Campaign .
Posted by: clarice | September 06, 2006 at 02:51 PM
Clarice: I shudder to think what a twisted Maguire might look like! But hey, "Untwisted" might have some potential title-wise.
Back to the list: Could we reserve a special (and permanent) Dishonorable Mention for the anonymous folks who write the headlines?
Posted by: JM Hanes | September 06, 2006 at 03:00 PM
Odd, for the second time in a couple of weeks, some kid has called my home phone asking for Mark Corallo who neither lives here nor with whom I have any acquaintance. This time he asked me if "I was sure" that Mark didn't live here and that this was my phone number.
Sounds to me like some nutroots playing games or acting on a scarey larry hot tip.
Posted by: clarice feldman | September 06, 2006 at 03:01 PM
You need to add another major category:
Lawyers who file frivolous lawsuits for Wilson/Plame:
Cotchett, Pitre, Simon & McCarthy. And that liberal smart rear - Erwin Chemerinsky
Posted by: Breaker | September 06, 2006 at 03:07 PM
Melanie of CREW, breaker.
Posted by: Lurker | September 06, 2006 at 03:08 PM
Dana Milbank wasn't on our list.
Surely, he had some words regarding Plamegate.
Posted by: danking70 | September 06, 2006 at 03:14 PM
He co-authored the 2 1/2 year late walk back by Pincus.
Posted by: clarice | September 06, 2006 at 03:23 PM
Claarice, whatever the title, insiders will refer to the book as "Munchurian Candidate."
Posted by: sbw | September 06, 2006 at 03:24 PM
equitus,
Jealous much?
Glenn Greenwald has had his statements read on the floor of the Senate, has a law degree, and is author of the New York Times Best Selling Book “How Would Richard Armitage Act?” His comments often become front-page stories on most major newspapers in the country. And he has one of the most-read blogs on the Interent, after just 9 months of blogging. I love how all you super-important rightwing bloggers attack me, I mean him, just to get traffic.
I bid you GOOD DAY, sir.
Posted by: Ellers Ellison "Ellsberg" McWilson | September 06, 2006 at 04:32 PM
Feel free to add to the series, I've started with:
"Ensure the story has Legs" Part 1: Make sure as many reporters as possible MISQUOTE and Misattribute YOU" By Joseph Wilson
____________________________________________________
• Wilson, Epic, wife listed in bio "Valerie Plame" June 14th, 2003
____________________________________________________
• The Selling of the Iraq War: The First Casualty
By John B. Judis and Spencer Ackerman* , New Republic June 30, 2003
link "1"
• Missing in Action: Truth
By Nicholas D. Kristof New York Times May 6, 2003
link "2"
• CIA Did Not Share Doubt on Iraq Data
Bush Used Report Of Uranium Bid
By Walter Pincus, Washington Post Staff Writer, Thursday, June 12, 2003; Page A01
link "3"
• White House in Denial
Nicholas D. Kristof, Op-ed columnist, The New York Times, Friday, June 13, 2003
link "4"
• Ministers Knew War Papers Were Forged, Says Diplomat
By Andrew Buncombe and Raymond Whitaker, The Independent, Sunday 29 June 2003
link "5"
Wilson testified June 2003
• SSCI July, 2004
• July 18, 2004: CNN Late Edition, Wolf Blitzer. Wilson reviews the allegations against him.
TM's Timeline
(sound like the Libby defense doesn't it?)
• July 19, 2004: Paula Zahn interviews Joe Wilson, who explains his press problem - they all misquoted me!
TM's Timeline
• July 19, 2004 WIlson letter to SSCI
link
• Sunday, October 30, 2005, National Press Club
(so now we go from Mispeak and misatrribution to lying about him)
link
• Waiting for the Kristof Korrection In which we revisit his famous May 6, 2003, column.
By Jack Shafer, Posted Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2005
link
Posted by: topsecretk9 | September 06, 2006 at 04:34 PM
shoot...forgot to bold this
Posted by: topsecretk9 | September 06, 2006 at 04:37 PM
No fair Top
Newspapers are supposed to be disposed of within 24 hours. You cnat expect these professionals, who feel the enormous pressure to write many many column inches weekly, to remember what they said before or even to own up to it. That is now how the game is played.
Posted by: Gary Maxwell | September 06, 2006 at 04:40 PM
---Odd, for the second time in a couple of weeks, some kid has called my home phone asking for Mark Corallo who neither lives here nor with whom I have any acquaintance. This time he asked me if "I was sure" that Mark didn't live here and that this was my phone number.
Sounds to me like some nutroots playing games or acting on a scarey larry hot tip.
Posted by: clarice feldman | September 06, 2006 at 12:01 PM---
Sounds like it too me...
Posted by: topsecretk9 | September 06, 2006 at 04:44 PM
::yikes::
Top, are you okay?
::grin::
Posted by: Sue | September 06, 2006 at 05:01 PM
Sue...your were right...
Firedoglake is giving EW a book deal!
It is for this reason that we are going to be publishing our first book through FDL Books, in order to have Marcy’s work seen by a larger audience.
First praise?
Marcy Wheeler is one of the very best of the researchers investigating the leak of Valerie Plame Wilson’s identity as a covert CIA officer. Her work has been consistently on the mark and her conclusions almost always confirmed as facts dribble out. Hers will be the definitive study of what happened and why.
– Ambassador Joseph Wilson
Posted by: topsecretk9 | September 06, 2006 at 05:02 PM
Sue
Shouldn't that post get me a bookdeal from TM? ::grin::
Posted by: topsecretk9 | September 06, 2006 at 05:05 PM
Her work has been consistently on the mark and her conclusions almost always confirmed as facts dribble out.
Sure, if you ignore all the times she is wrong. ::grin::
Posted by: Sue | September 06, 2006 at 05:12 PM
Top,
You got my vote!
Posted by: Sue | September 06, 2006 at 05:12 PM
Top,
Save those somewhere easily accessed. I have a feeling you will want to refer back to them in the coming days and weeks and months and years and centuries and eons and infinity...(I suspect this thing will never go away.)
Posted by: Sue | September 06, 2006 at 05:15 PM
Gee Tops in regard to your multiple links to articles quoting smokin joe:
When you line it all up like that and lay it out so clearly it makes someone look pretty bad and aw shucks it just seems downright mean and all.
Posted by: sad | September 06, 2006 at 05:16 PM
Patrick Fitzgerald requesting private hearing about classified documents to be considered in Libby trial.Can't have an open forum. What documents would he be referring to?
Posted by: maryrose | September 06, 2006 at 05:17 PM
maryrose, is this something new? What's the reference?
Posted by: clarice | September 06, 2006 at 05:19 PM
Who the heck is Marcy Wheeler?
I asked myself. Google answered.
http://thenexthurrah.typepad.com/the_next_hurrah/
Marcy's is the very first "Blog to Book" for FireDogLake Books. It's a blog, only in book form. Her topic is Plame!
I like Milhouse's Alf/pog comparison better.
Milhouse: I traded your soul for Alf pogs. Remember Alf? He's back. In pog form.
Posted by: Gabriel Sutherland | September 06, 2006 at 05:20 PM
Marcy Wheeler...the emptywheel...who is right when she isn't wrong.
Posted by: Sue | September 06, 2006 at 05:22 PM
Yeah...that Paula Zahn interview is priceless...
I "misspoke" to the commitee staff when I said I "misspoke" I was really "misquoted" and "misattributed"
Posted by: topsecretk9 | September 06, 2006 at 05:26 PM
--Patrick Fitzgerald requesting private hearing about classified documents to be considered in Libby trial.Can't have an open forum. What documents would he be referring to?--
All the crap the Libby requested, he asked for an extension because the Gov't wasn't done going through it, now it is.
Posted by: topsecretk9 | September 06, 2006 at 05:28 PM
I bet the judge will be real happy to see him. /s,
Posted by: clarice | September 06, 2006 at 05:38 PM
Dems Call For "No Confidence" Vote on Rumsfeld
Give me a break!!
Posted by: lurker | September 06, 2006 at 06:12 PM
"Marcy Wheeler is one of the very best of the researchers investigating the leak of Valerie Plame Wilson’s identity as a covert CIA officer. Her work has been consistently on the mark and her conclusions almost always confirmed as facts dribble out. Hers will be the definitive study of what happened and why.
– Ambassador Joseph Wilson"
Ah, the discredited Ex-Ambassador Joseph Wilson!
I have no plans to buy her books.
Posted by: lurker | September 06, 2006 at 06:14 PM
Well...wouldn't this be a kick - if Rumsfeld is forced to resign (and BTW - I do not expect that to happen, not do I advocate it), wouldn't it be fitting if Bush appointed Lieberman? LOL
Posted by: Specter | September 06, 2006 at 08:12 PM
How's this for a title: "The Wilson Caper: Bush Derangement Syndrome in action."
Posted by: sbw | September 06, 2006 at 08:55 PM
The Truth of Politics?
Posted by: clarice | September 06, 2006 at 09:02 PM
I hope this victory celebration is justified and Plamegate is about done. I’m not so sure; after all, this has happened before. In 2004, when the SSCI report was published, the Washington Post published an article that essentially said Joe Wilson was lying. After Joe wrote a rebuttal letter to the editor, easily shot down by the Post’s ombudsman, Joe closed down his web site and resigned from the Kerry campaign. However, he quickly learned that the left either didn’t believe he was lying or didn’t care. After all, the “Bush lied” accusation rested on Joe’s word, and everyone knew Bush had lied, so Joe must be telling the truth. He was back in business in a couple of weeks.
Mere facts and a couple of editorials probably won’t make Joe and Valarie as radioactive as they deserve to be. I think we will continue to see them through the end of the Bush administration and perhaps beyond. We have the Libby trial and their lawsuit to plod through. We have two upcoming elections in which the character of the Bush Administration will be an issue. And we have Joe and Valarie’s cottage industry, relentlessly promoting their victimization through her book (someone will publish it), speaking engagements and TV appearances. I believe they will continue to find a rich market for their story. Shame is a quality that doesn’t seem to exist on the left.
Posted by: Aubrey | September 06, 2006 at 10:49 PM
Well, from the fact that Powell and Armitage haven't shown their faces in public for a while, it seems it does exist in DC--for a while at least. Maybe after a few months they'll go on Oprah or some such and tell us about their rehab treatment for perfidyaholics or something.
Posted by: clarice | September 06, 2006 at 11:02 PM
Clarice:
I think shame may be less a factor than not wanting to face a slew of additional questions he doesn' t want to answer.
Posted by: JM Hanes | September 06, 2006 at 11:33 PM
OK, so I'm not much of a regular in these comments. I get it now.
The mere mention of GG (he-who-shall-not-be-named) acvitates the ellers-bot, which posts the de facto sock-puppet spiel. No one wants to read that again, and so discussion of GG is effectively discouraged.
Genius.
I am jealous much!
Posted by: equitus | September 08, 2006 at 02:19 AM
I was at the doctor's office today flipping through the magazines and came across an article in Vanity Fair by Michael Wolff entitled "All Roads Lead to Rove".
A little too nuanced if you ask me....
Posted by: danking70 | September 12, 2006 at 02:02 PM