Political Chuckles.........a nice read! "Let's be Fair to the President!"

Let's Be Fair To The President

Cenk Uygur

I think the press has been really tough on Karl Rove and the administration over this Valerie Plame scandal, so I wanted to come to their defense a little bit. First of all, Plame might have been a covert CIA operative, but she once sat in a desk and shuffled papers around. If you’re not shooting people in the field every day, then how do you go around with a straight face calling yourself a secret agent?

Secondly, Karl Rove was just trying to prevent the press from making yet another error by reporting on Ambassador Wilson’s claims. Joe Wilson was lying about his trip to Niger. The Iraqis were, in fact, trying to buy uranium to build nuclear weapons. That’s why we found all those nuclear bombs in Iraq labeled “Made in Niger.”

Sure, there was a memo circulating in the administration identifying Valerie Plame as a CIA agent. And it was marked with an “S.” “S” normally stands for “Secret,” but to be fair to Rove, he might have thought in this case, “S” stood for “Send to Reporter.”

Earlier President Bush agreed that anyone who was involved in the leak of Plame’s identity should be fired. He said the leakers would be “taken care of.” But to be fair to the President, that quote is taken out of context. He probably meant, “If it turns out Karl leaked this classified information, we should really take care of him. Maybe get him a spa treatment or a facial.”

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