"If you're one of the few loyal Bush defenders who are still around, ...

[understandinglife]

... and a fact is revealed which casts a very negative light on the administration, what do you do? Easy - shut your eyes really tightly, put your fingers in your ears, and just petulantly insist, based on nothing other than faith and desire, that it's not really true. Attack the motives and character of those involved. Threaten those responsible for disclosure of this damaging information with imprisonment. And then insist some more that it just can't be true.

MSNBC reporter David Schuster reported yesterday that at the time the Bush administration disclosed her employment with the CIA, Valerie Plame was working on a project "tracking the proliferation of nuclear weapons material into Iran." Schuster also reported that intelligence sources of his claimed that her disclosure forced her to cease this work and that it disrupted and harmed the efforts of the United States to obtain intelligence relating to Iran's weapons activities.

For obvious reasons, these facts, if true, reflect very poorly on the administration, particularly given its current claims that Iran is the new Nazi Germany, that it is the world's greatest threat to all that is Good, and that stopping Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons is the overarching national security priority. Outing a CIA agent working on precisely that problem, all in order to discredit a political critic, is extremely embarrassing, to put it mildly.

So, if you are a person who defends the administration no matter what, what is there to say about this? You begin by insisting that it's just not true -- it can't be ....

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More on those who spin and spit in defense of Bush's neoconster crime syndicate is available in another excellent Glenn Greenwald essay .


Lies, damn lies, the criminals who tell them and the fools who believe them ... are all that remain of the Republican Party.


Never Forget: George W. Bush willfully violated National Security to cover-up his willful launch of a war of aggression and illegal occupation of Iraq.

[redqueen]

1. Shocking that so many can only say Colbert wasn't funny.

Given this kind of subject material... it's a miracle that he could make us even crack a grin.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

4. I like it.

The comment "he wasn't funny" really lets you know who's still a Bush supporter.

[redqueen]

5. But what of all the DUers saying it?

:wtf:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

7. Eh.

Either their Bush supports, or they haven't got a sense of humor, or they're being sarcastic themselves.

[Tim4319]

13. Oooh, but the Clinton jokes are hilarious!

How about the Ted (hiccup) Kennedy jokes, they are just gut wrenching!

But, the minute someone cracks a joke about Mr. Untouchable, King Bubbleboy, Dr. Decider or what ever title this idiot of a pResident has, it's time to get serious! STOP BEING SUCH A HYPOCRITE! you RW assholes!

[redqueen]

14. They aren't fooling many anymore.

Fewer with each passing day. :)

[stopbush]

2. For how much longer will Schuster be able to report?

He doesn't mince words. For instance: "her disclosure forced her to cease this work and that it disrupted and harmed the efforts of the
United States to obtain intelligence relating to Iran's weapons activities." Any other reporter would have put it this way:
"some people say her disclosure forced her to cease this work and that it disrupted and harmed the efforts of the United States to
obtain intelligence relating to Iran's weapons activities, while others challenge that assumption."

:)

[AndyA]

3. Those who still believe in Bush and support Bush are not Americans.

They are something else. No American who loves this country would still support a President or an Administration or Congress who have done so much to destroy America.

You can not make exceptions for their actions at this point. You cannot condone those actions. You cannot stand quietly and allow the abuse to continue. A true American knows they cannot allow this to continue. Look at the Patriots and heroes in American history. They did not allow this, and no true American today can allow it either.

Make no mistake, Bush supporters and enablers are NOT Americans.

[Rocknrule]

10. They're not real Christians either

Real Christians worship Jesus. RW Christians worship Bush. Nuff said.

[understandinglife]

6. "I think we have laws to deal with that kind of national security ...

... breach. But we'll need an intern and a blue dress before the Beltway media will stop eating their cocktail weenies and cover it with the same breathless abandon they showed when the fate of the country revolved around sex."

http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/007536.php

I think this comment by Steve Soto at the Left Coaster adequately summarizes just how complicit and conspiratorial the bulk of the media have performed. I do think Colbert, Schuster and others are causing massive heart-burn for the neoconster-enablers in the corporate media.


Peace.

[90-percent]

8. Valerie Plame

Outing a CIA Agent is "extremely embarrassing"?

If you or I committed such a CRIME, we'd be "embarrassed" for 40 years in a Federal Penitentiary!

Sheesh!

-85% Jimmy

[redqueen]

9. Steve Soto really worded that well.

Thanks for that post.

[warrens]

11. Justifying treason

Because if their precious little punk did it, it has to be right. I wonder how many Iranian scientists had their neck stretched after she was outed. That was her job; contacting WMD scientists from other countries (including friendly ones) and trying to turn them into intelligence sources or out-and-out recruit them to work for the CIA. Anyone who had dinner with her, or met privately with her or her team, is in danger.

[DemReadingDU]

12. Good artilcle

Republican fools, forever. Bush will always have his base.