Trial of the Absurd

John Podhoretz of the New York Post has written a marvleous clairifying piece on the Scooter Libby matter. Chris Mattnews is very foolish for devoting a significant portion of his program to this trial while other national issues are are ignored. Read the NBC Connection.

February 8, 2007 — LET me try to unravel the bizarre circumstances sur rounding the Scooter Libby trial. Libby, you’ll recall, was Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff. He resigned the day he was charged with five counts of perjury by a special prosecutor named Patrick Fitzgerald.

Libby (who is a friend of mine) is accused of lying in sworn testimony to a grand jury and sworn statements to FBI investigators. Those lies, Fitzgerald says, have to do with what Libby said he knew – versus what he actually did know – about a CIA officer named Valerie Plame Wilson.

Libby agrees that on or about June 12, 2003, he was informed of the existence of Valerie Plame Wilson by his boss, the vice president.

A month later, Robert Novak published Valerie Plame’s name in a column. A few days later, the leftist columnist David Corn wrote a piece claiming that Wilson was a covert CIA agent.

“If [she] is such a person,” wrote Corn, “her career has been destroyed by the Bush administration.” Plame’s husband went further, telling Corn in effect that the Novak column “compromised every operation, every relationship, every network with which she had been associated in her entire career.”

Ghost Light: Thespis Glow

 A panorama of posts from around the blogosphere to keep our theater from going dark:

Happy Second Birthday to Stop the ACLU.

It is interesting to note that a portion of the charges against Scooter Libby have been dropped. I wonder if Chris Matthews reported on this fact during his Friday rant on Hardball?

Blogrolling with Basil is always the best.

Ron Reagan is a national embarrassment. Ever since he tried to diss President Bush when he spoke at services for President Reagan held at Reagan library, Ron Reagan has behaved like a really bad liberal political hack.

I admire Christine Ebersole, and I love to see her on stage, however, Rosie O’Donnell and Christine Ebersole made fools out of themselves on The View on Friday.

See the Beatles from 43 years ago on Ed Sullivan.

LaShawn Barber is questioning Sean Hannity’s integrity on behalf of fellow blogger Debbie Schlussel. I admire Sean a great deal, but it sounds like something is not right in this situation. Sean must be extremely busy with his radio program, Hannity and Colmes every night, and his new show on Fox News. I hope that these great conservatives can make it right.

Jack Murtha continues to behave like a fool.

Check out the cartoon at Stuck on Stupid.