Has Anyone Else Seen This?
"Lawyer: Five Witnesses Say Joe Wilson Outed Valerie Plame"
PERSONAL NOTE: Perhaps the reason this got no play over the weekend is because the statement came from Libby's defense lawyer. Still, if the lawyer in question says he has 5 witnesses, they need to be heard... If for no other reason than to shut the Left up about the whole Valerie Plame Affair. But how do you shut up a media that isn't talking?
What I find most interesting about this report is Mr. Wilson's response, and lack thereof.
In a development that got no media play over the weekend, Lewis 'Scooter' Libby's defense lawyer announced on Friday that he has located five witnesses who will testify that Joe Wilson outed his wife Valerie Plame as a CIA employee before Robert Novak did so in his July 2003 column.
According to the NationalReviewOnline's Byron York, Libby's lawyer Ted Wells told the court that his witnesses "will say under oath that Mr. Wilson told them his wife worked for the CIA."
Wells said that he expects Leakgate Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald to call Wilson to testify in a bid to salvage his case.
Reacting to the news on Friday, Wilson declined to deny the allegation, suggesting instead that it no longer mattered who first outed his wife.
"The last I heard, this case is about allegations Mr. Libby lied, perjured himself before the FBI, special prosecutor and grand jury and obstructed justice," he told CNN in a statement. "None of those charges of which he's been indicted has anything to do with me."
PERSONAL NOTE: Perhaps the reason this got no play over the weekend is because the statement came from Libby's defense lawyer. Still, if the lawyer in question says he has 5 witnesses, they need to be heard... If for no other reason than to shut the Left up about the whole Valerie Plame Affair. But how do you shut up a media that isn't talking?
What I find most interesting about this report is Mr. Wilson's response, and lack thereof.
from the mind of... Eric | 1:50 PM
6 Comments:
Lordy. As if everybody who opposes whatever yer for is "The Left"! :-)
By the way, I *thought TULIP rang a bell, as in bent-backed tulips. You playin' on the Calvinist memoru aid? T.U.L.I.P.? :-)
http://www.biblehelp.org/tulip.htm
Lordy. As if everybody who opposes whatever yer for is "The Left"!
Ha! You caught me!
And by the way, "No... Tulips are just tulips in the minds of Lennon and McCartney."
If you've ever looked at the bottom of the page, you undoubtedly saw my "Eggman" and hearty "Goo goo g'Joob!" for good measure. It's strictly a Beatles thing.
I'll check out yer link... I just might find it interesting.
Perhaps you know. You seem to be more plugged into politics than I. Got a link stating the percentage of lib/con or dem/repub reporters in the Washington or Whitehouse press corps? I've got a dialogue with a lefty going, and he wants links. I read this not too long ago, but didn't save it. Also, anything clear on the Florida/chad fiasco? I looked into it a few years ago, but links count as evidence, and rightly so.
If so, thanks. If not, thanks anyway.
J
Jack. I can give you a partial answer. There is no definitive number on the political make-up of the Washington press. In the early 90's a think tank sent out a survey to a lot of newspapers and Repubs often like to crow how the results showed a lot more Democratic reporters. However basic evaluation of the study will show that it was a hopelessly flawed study, with almost no actual scholarly merit.
1. They only surveyed newspapers, not television stations or networks or magazines either which make up a large portion of the political press.
2. There was no weighting given to the study for political beat reporters as oposed to general pool reporters.
3. Even among newspapers the only ones queried were second-tier. The political make-up of the Sacramento Bee might mean something, but I'm sure it means less than the make-up of the Washington Post.
Like we really need a study to find out the truth about media bias!
Give me a break!
Re, "Like we really need a study ..."
Certainly wouldn't want any emperical evidence to get in the way of a hunch, for sure.
Never let the facts get in the way of a good story. :-)
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