A Semi-Sorta Scandal

I’m starting to think the whole Joseph Wilson/Valerie Plame/CIA/Who leaked scandal is going to be shoved down our throats until we start to believe it. And I’m absolutely furious at the bias in the reporting of this story.

From The Associated Press:

The disclosure of the intelligence officer’s identity by syndicated columnist Robert Novak came shortly after her husband, former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, undermined Bush’s claim that Iraq had tried to buy uranium in Africa. In what turned out to be a major embarrassment, Bush acknowledged he could not back up his statement.

They’re dredging up an old “scandal that wasn’t” and trying to rewrite history! Does anybody remember the truth anymore? “British intelligence indicates…” and the Brits still stand by their claim. Bush never “acknowledged he could not back up his statement”. The statement was true then, and true today. What the administration said is that the claim itself could not be substantiated by U.S. intelligence and on that basis it should have been left out of the State of the Union speech. As far as it being a “major embarrassment”, I think most people who give a damn about following the news realized the truth was far less incriminating than the press made it out to be.

You just want to throttle these lying bags of scum sometimes. There are real scandals out there to be uncovered, but those lazy pieces of dirt would rather follow each other’s tail and continue spinning this elaborate web of deceit rather than inform us of what’s actually going on in the world.