Comments on: Instalogic

By: gnat

gnat — Fri, 05 Dec 2003 17:48:09 +0000

Congrats! The non biased media successfully suppressed the Rockefeller Senate Intelligence Committee memo that suggested using said committee to attack the administration. (Even if doing so harmed national interests like the WOT) No mention of that in Newsweek – ever Five page lead story on the Plame thing however.

By: julia

julia — Thu, 04 Dec 2003 13:19:23 +0000

sorry, Milbank.

By: julia

julia — Thu, 04 Dec 2003 13:17:43 +0000

Hey, be fair. I’m sure Professor Reynolds was absolutely opposed to acting on any scandal involving Linda Tripp and Paula Jones, ‘cause they didn’t exactly shun the spotlight. Here’s a question: someone is after Wilson’s wife. The whole question (as Dana Milbanks said in the Post in the past week) has dropped completely off the radar screen, and shows no signs of returning. The woman’s life was endangered, and now the whole thing is being disappeared because one of the president’s men is the felon who made it happen. Isn’t it shocking that Wilson is looking for publicity? The nerve.

By: Nate

Nate — Thu, 04 Dec 2003 02:14:13 +0000

Hey dugger… how on earth do you know that Bush “is a good man”? Have you spent much time with him? I don’t have much evidence about Bush’s personality. But I do have one bit of personal anecdotal evidence. On December 1st George W. Bush attended fundraisers in Detroit MI and Newark NJ. I was connecting at Detroit International Airport to fly to Newark. Because they don’t let other airplanes fly too close to Air Force One and his flightpath was exactly our flightpath, we had to wait three freaking hours. That was several hundred people who had their days ruined and travel plans messed up. Some folks catching international flights at Newark had to rebook their international flights. When I got home to NJ the first thing I did was check the Detroit Freepress to see what Bush was doing. It would have been okay if he were doing the business of America, you know, meeting the governor or pinning a medal on some kid from Deroit. But it was just some stupid $2000 a plate fundraiser. Same thing in Newark, another $2000 a plate fundraiser. As far as I’m concerned, he should realize that flying around with the security procedures they have, these things are a real inconvenience to real people. I wouldn’t give him $2000 to run for reelection, but I don’t begrudge somebody who would. Just don’t take 3 hours of my life for that nonsense.

By: roger

roger — Thu, 04 Dec 2003 01:29:07 +0000

“I gotta say, all the shots taken at Instapundit are pretty funny. The image they evoke is of gnats swarming around a horse.” Actually, the correct image is of only part of a horse.

By: Walt Pohl

Walt Pohl — Wed, 03 Dec 2003 23:47:35 +0000

Dugger: Shockingly, people in this country are still allowed to have opinions. Even Joseph Wilson. (In fact, especially Joseph Wilson, since, as I alluded to, he’s a goddamn American hero.) What is there to say? Someone leaked Plame’s identity to the media to score political points. This isn’t something Wilson made up: this is a fact. (Now that her cover is blown, she’s free – like any other red-blooded American – to pose for nude pictures on the Internet, if she wants.) And yet no one has even been fired. Asq: So your rule is that no one gets to criticize anyone more famous? I take it you’re not much of a sports fan.

By: Keith M Ellis

Keith M Ellis — Wed, 03 Dec 2003 23:39:35 +0000

Hey, I don’t think there’s any denying that Wilson’s self-promotion leaves a bad taste in the mouth. And since he’s been pushing this story, it’s valid to be suspicious. But, as Henry and others are saying, the bare facts of the story indicate at least unknowing wrongdoing on the part of someone in the Bush administration involving, perversly, national security issues regarding weapons proliferation. Period. If the shoe were on the other foot, you’d bet Instapundit et al would be outraged and clamoring for an indictment. That of course doesn’t mean that they’d be right. Perhaps they wouldn’t be, and perhaps we’re not right to make such a big issue out of this. But it’s still deserving of some scrutiny and sweeping it under the carpet, apologetics, and smear tactics by this administration and its defenders are, in a word, dishonest.

By: ahem

ahem — Wed, 03 Dec 2003 23:15:14 +0000

I gotta say, all the shots taken at Instapundit are pretty funny. But not as funny as his inane acolytes. The image they evoke is of gnats swarming around a horse Nah: but the image of Instapundit fans is one of flies swarming around horseshit.

By: ASG

ASG — Wed, 03 Dec 2003 23:04:43 +0000

This is hilarious. “Substantial evidence” of “partisan political purposes”? What such purposes were served by the Plame leak? Criminal leak? No one has ever shown that Plame was covered by the identity protection policy, since she’d been out of action so long. I gotta say, all the shots taken at Instapundit are pretty funny. The image they evoke is of gnats swarming around a horse.

By: Dugger

Dugger — Wed, 03 Dec 2003 22:58:43 +0000

Walt, So what. Joe Wilson, the little partisan skunk, admitted publicly that he lied about Carl Rove and he’s been heavily involved with left wing political groups. He boo-hooed in public about his wife’s identity and job, and then poses in a national magazine with her. Any bells going off Walt? You buy that crap because its an opportunity to smear a good man (Bush) and its Instapundit thats dumb? Wow!

By: Walt Pohl

Walt Pohl — Wed, 03 Dec 2003 21:21:11 +0000

Dugger: Joseph Wilson is the man who, while in Baghdad after Saddam Hussein basically threatened his life, dared Saddam to come and get him. You, on the other hand, are just some wuss with an internet connection. Glenn Reynolds’ response is really astonishingly stupid. At this point Valerie Plame could pose in Playboy, and it wouldn’t make whoever sold her out any less of a criminal.

By: Jimmy Doyle

Jimmy Doyle — Wed, 03 Dec 2003 21:10:55 +0000

Sorry; Mr Hlavaty posted while I was writing up mine. I was referring to ‘dugger’ and ‘jo ma,’ in case it wasn’t obvious.

By: Jimmy Doyle

Jimmy Doyle — Wed, 03 Dec 2003 21:08:40 +0000

Re the last two comments. What d’you reckon: Hoaxes? Or just morons?

By: Arthur D. Hlavaty

Arthur D. Hlavaty — Wed, 03 Dec 2003 21:07:51 +0000

Right. And if Kobe Bryant’s defense time finds any evidence that the victim has any interest in a book contract, then he’s innocent, too.

By: Jo Ma

Jo Ma — Wed, 03 Dec 2003 21:03:03 +0000

Indeed. It does seem that Henry and his chorus deny the evidence disconfirming his simplistic world view. It is a rather pathetic sight.