Did Howie Kurtz's winger wife write today's column?

[DeepModem Mom]

He trivializes the Plame scandal by composing a (somewhat lop-sided) top-ten list of comparisons between it and the Monica scandal:

1) Personal involvement. Clinton was the man who assured the country he did not have sexual relations with that woman; Bush, as far as we know, had no direct involvement in Plamegate.

2) The stakes. Clinton's slippery testimony was to cover up an extramarital affair with an intern, a huge personal embarrassment. The Bush administration's outing of Valerie Plame was to get back at her husband over the WMD issue, a huge national embarrassment when the original rationale for war crumbled.

3) Top aides on the spot. Other than Sid Blumenthal testifying before a grand jury, Clinton's dalliance largely did not involve other senior administration officials, although some were drawn into the cover-up investigation. Karl and Scooter, by contrast, are the most important advisers to the president and vice president.

4) Special prosecutor. Ken Starr was a moralist who was denounced by critics for hopping from Whitewater to Monica and publishing an X-rated report. Pat Fitzgerald is a well-regarded U.S. attorney who has been criticized for using strong-arm tactics against reporters.

5) Catch phrases. Clinton: The Big Creep. Distinguishing characteristics. It depends on what the definition of is is. Bush: not so much, except for Joe Wilson saying Rove should be "frog-marched out of the White House."...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/04/11/LI2005041100587.html

[reality based]

1. No one died when Clinton lied

[DeepModem Mom]

2. Well said! This aspect of Plame is all but ignored...

in its coverage.