Tracking The Lies About Plame

To see how leftist history is created, you need to tune into the nut-cable stations and watch their coverage of the Scooter Libby trial. On MSNBC, they're covering the trial like it's the Normandy Invasion, starring Elvis Presley, as told by Joseph Goebbels....'Yellow Cake and Yellow Journalism,' Ann Coulter, Front Page Magazine, 2/8/2007

You also need to tune into the Scooter Libby "Trial" (in the old USSR these used to be referred to as show trials, where, as John Podhoretz notes in today's NY Post

'So let's review. No crime was committed, according to Fitzgerald, in the publication of Valerie Plame Wilson's name...No crime was committed, according to Fitzgerald, by the actions of two government officials who revealed Valerie Plame Wilson's name to Novak...No crime was committed, according to Fitzgerald, by the White House press secretary who actually and actively tried to spoon-feed the name to three journalists...Scooter Libby, by contrast, spoke to a reporter who didn't publish a story with Valerie Plame Wilson's name in it. She went to jail for 85 days. Now Fitzgerald wants to send Libby to jail too - on the basis of dimly remembered conversations and indecipherable chicken scratches...."

This is Stalinism at its finest: the total fabrication of "truth" in the name of some "higher" value, i.e., the future career path of "Ambassador" Wilson, the drive by Democrats to trash the Bush Administration regardless of the consequences on national and international policy, and the usual unnamed sources for whom Washington is the best camouflage for thuggery.

Read Coulter's summary and Podhoretz's. By now so far removed from what's reported by Chris Matthews and his "repertorial" cohort, the truth about Libby, Plame, or anything else involving the Bush Administration seems more like a fantasy. This is intended. The left lost its case decades ago. Its response is to create a world out of whole cloth. The consequences in political discourse are uncomplicated; they are to destroy it for most Americans. This too is intended. It would be useful for Americans to pay attention.

Luther