Trending right now on Twitter is Valerie Plame. Remeber Valerie? She's the CIA worker who was supposedly "outed" in retaliation for her husband Joe Wilson contesting statements at the time the Iraq War began. It wasn't really much of an "outing" since a great many people already knew that she had worked for the CIA, but it still got blown up into a special prosecutor and a major media circus. The media blamed Dick Cheney for her "outing" and particularly Cheney's chief of staff Scooter Libby. After a lengthy investigation, however, it turned out that it was Richard Armitage of the State Department who had told reporter Robert Novak that Plame had worked for the CIA. Novak broke the story.
After that, Plame and her husband disappeared from the media. She was no longer useful for bashing President Bush and his administration, so none of the media followed her anymore.
Today, Plame reappeared to start her campaign for Congress in New Mexico. Not surprisingly, Plame started with two lies.
First, Plame repeated the story that Scooter Libby had been the one to disclose her identity. That's a bald faced lie and Plame knows it. No matter, though, Plame is still pushing that lie.
Second, Plame tried to inoculate herself from her anti-Semitic statements of the last few years. She actually claimed that she did not know that when she tweeted an article called "America’s Jews Are Driving America’s Wars" from the website of a holocaust denier that it was anti-Semitic.
This is a woman who should not be in Congress, even as a Democrat. We already have enough anti-Semitic Democrat women congressmen.
After that, Plame and her husband disappeared from the media. She was no longer useful for bashing President Bush and his administration, so none of the media followed her anymore.
Today, Plame reappeared to start her campaign for Congress in New Mexico. Not surprisingly, Plame started with two lies.
First, Plame repeated the story that Scooter Libby had been the one to disclose her identity. That's a bald faced lie and Plame knows it. No matter, though, Plame is still pushing that lie.
Second, Plame tried to inoculate herself from her anti-Semitic statements of the last few years. She actually claimed that she did not know that when she tweeted an article called "America’s Jews Are Driving America’s Wars" from the website of a holocaust denier that it was anti-Semitic.
This is a woman who should not be in Congress, even as a Democrat. We already have enough anti-Semitic Democrat women congressmen.
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