Unfair, unbalanced, and unhinged.
Nothing sends close-minded liberals into a tizzy faster than Fox News. The talking heads at MSNBC are obsessed with “exposing the lies” of Faux Noise! Trying to discuss politics with people stuck in the echo chamber is almost impossible. These are the people who believe that Valerie Plame was the victim of an elaborate plot to expose her status as an CIA agent. Scooter Libby went to jail for breaking the same law President Clinton broke when he lied under oath. Except it’s less likely Clinton forgot about his misadventures and more likely Libby couldn’t remember three-year-old conversations about a subject about which no crime was committed. Unfortunately for Libby his trial wasn’t before the Congress. Ah, details, details, details. It just sounds so much simpler when Ed Schultz talks to Joe Wilson.
I know, I know, I’m covering old ground. Today I read an article Mark Tapscott wrote that discusses the Media Matters/MSNBC template. In this case, it’s in regard to the church of global warming. The unproven theory of manmade global warming is one of the dogmatic truths on the left. Fox News Washington Bureau Chief Bill Sammon recently made the mistake of saying the following:
“Given the controversy over the veracity of climate change data, we should refrain from asserting that the planet has warmed (or cooled) in any given period without immediately pointing out that such theories are based upon data that critics have called into question. It is not our place as journalists to assert such notions as facts, especially as this debate intensifies.”
The back story here, of course, is that Media Matters is doing exactly what billionaire radical liberal financier George Soros paid it $1 million to do, which is to trash Fox News at every opportunity no matter what the facts might be in any given situation.
Watching this campaign unfold, it becomes clear that Fox News drives today’s extremist liberals into the same sort of eye-bulging, irrational, spittle-flying, blind rage that we saw back in the 1950s from the far right whack-jobs in the John Birch Society who claimed Ike was either a fool or a card-carrying commie.
Over the last five years MSNBC has gone further and further off the deep end. The network has finally moved into the territory of irrelevancy. It’s become a den of misinformation, paranoia, and angry curmudgeons. MSNBC is the only news network that I’m aware of that has a host of a show who advocated voter fraud. Is advocating skeptical journalism really a bad thing?
If ever there was any doubt left that Hollywood is a bastion of liberal moonbat morons, there’s none left. What else can explain the move Fair Game (no, not the William Baldwin/Cindy Crawford vehicle that ranks as one of the best films ever made, right behind Citizen Kane) starring Naomi Watts and Sean Penn? The movie is based on Nadagate, better known as the Plame Affair. I would explain the details of Nadagate, but there’s nothing, or nada, if you prefer, to tell. No one was ever convicted of leaking Valerie Plame’s identity as a CIA agent. Bob Woodward and Christopher Hitchens, who are not conservatives, concluded that it was and is a non-story. As one particularly clever pundit wrote about the supposed “outing” of Plame as an “undercover” CIA agent:
“Among the reasons we know Rove wasn’t exposing Valerie Plame as a covert agent is the fact that Plame wasn’t a covert agent. Or rather, she was the type of covert, deep-cover, top-secret spy who poses for two-page color photo spreads in Vanity Fair magazine under her real name – you know, that kind of covert… ‘Jane Bond’ was, in actuality, ‘Jane Paper Pusher Whose Husband Is a Stay-at-Home Dad Currently, Uh, Between Jobs. The closest Plame has been to ‘undercover’ in recent years was at last year’s CIA Christmas party, when she was someone’s secret Santa.”
Liberals latched on to this issue and never let go. The witch-hunt led to Lewis “Scooter” Libby going to jail for misleading prosecutors about a crime that never took place. Valerie Plame attempted a civil suit against Cheney, Rove and Libby that never went anywhere because there’s nowhere to go. However, the Wilson’s story has made it all the way to Hollywood. Evidently, it’s easier to find some liberal morons to make a movie about something that didn’t happen than to prove nada in court.
So who’s the target audience for this farce? I can’t in good conscience watch this steaming pile of lies. Where is the film about China donating money to Democrats in the ’90s while at the same time stealing weapons technology? That’s something that actually took place. How about a film about Miguel Estrada? Here’s a guy who was denied a vote in the Senate based on the color of his skin. There’s a whole list of real things Hollywood could make a film about; instead, we get Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame depicted as martyrs. As far as Fair Game is concerned you can count me out. I’d rather watch the Cindy Crawford version.
One of the more forgettable non-scandals during the Bush administration was the whole Valeria Plame affair. The whole investigation hinged on the fact that the Bush administration illegally leaked outed Plame as a CIA agent. It never happened but the resulting investigation led to the prosecution of Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief aid Scotter Libby. Libby’s crime was lying to federal prosecutors. The crime had nothing to do with the investigation, but it was still a crime. It appears that Cheney lobbied hard for Bush to offer a full pardon, but Bush resisted.
Several sources confirmed Cheney refused to take no for an answer. “He went to the mat and came back and back and back at Bush,” a Cheney defender said. “He was still trying the day before Obama was sworn in.”
After repeatedly telling Cheney his mind was made up, Bush became so exasperated with Cheney’s persistence he told aides he didn’t want to discuss the matter any further.
Say what you want about the Bush administration but there was definitely a stricter adherence to the rule of law than during the Clinton administration. President Clinton broke the same law that Scooter Libby served time for committing. It’s worth remember during the Oscar season when there’s a movie about Nixon that he wasn’t the only one who committed crimes as the chief law enforcement officer of the United States. Nixon at least had the decency to resign. Less could be said for Clinton and his enormous ego.
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