…but it might look awfully bad and what with the AP news service rushing out a completely unsupported non-editorial about how this casts a pall over the whitehouse and somehow vindicates Joe Wilson (sorry, I can’t find it anymore on news.google, maybe it got removed) and others jumping on the Wilson-conspiracy bandwagon despite significant evidence to the contrary, I think its time to let bygones be bygones.
I mean, if this is all about the leak then they got the wrong guy right? Wasn’t it Richard Armitage? Swearing and repeating Plame’s name over and over on tape to Novak? Ooh damn thats invconvenient. Libby just lied about what he said to whom and when. Other than that he did nothing illegal. I always wonder why people do that.
Anyway the left will have a massive conniption if Libby gets pardoned (which might in itself be worth seeing) but I think a great compromise would be as follows:
Bush should issue a double pardon, pardon two people for the same charge at the same time: Libby pardoned for perjury and obstruction in the leak case, and Bill Clinton pardoned for perjury and obstruction in the Paula Jones & Lewinsky cases.
Makes a point and includes a Democrat to boot!
colormepurple says
and who’s going to pardon Ann Coulter for being Ann Coulter? And is there any pardoning for Entertainment Tonight for bring us Anna Nicole 24/7?
demolisher says
Robert Novak, whose column kicked off this whole mess, has just written his own take on the matter:
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Here’s an excerpt:
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demolisher says
This one is unfortunately very sarcastic, perhaps inspired by a feeling of powerless befuddlement in the fact of the horribly wrong conventional wisdom?
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http://www.latimes.c…
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excerpt:
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raj says
…Your posts and comments are as vacuoous* as those of Republican operatives that I have seen on other message boards and Weblogs.
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*vacuoous: stupid, devoid of sensible content, easily shown to be full of lies, etc., etc., etc.
demolisher says
hmmm well I guess if you don’t mean that I am discussing the matter of lies that have been told, but rather that my posts themselves are lying, then I should refer you to the authors of my talking points (in this case the linked articles, you’d probably assume – even though I found them afterwards)
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I suggest you take it up with Novak and the LA Times, and while you’re at it the Washington Post editorial page.
raj says
…I won’t be more explicit than that.
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We know who is paying Robert NoFacts to generate his columns.
demolisher says
of course
demolisher says
By the way, I really detest lies so if you could point out which things I’ve said that are lies and then – since its easy – disprove them, I’d really like to revise my post.
jimcaralis says
Raj took Simon and quite frankly Paula is boring…
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yo, yo, yo, I kinda liked it. The begining was a little rough. It seemed a little pitchy in spots but you brought all back with a strong finish.
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I think you picked the right post for your style. Nice job. Let’s hear it from the dog pound (Peter, Gary…) ruff, ruff, ruff…