Scooter Libby, Neocon Martyr // By Justin Raimondo

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Scooter Libby, Neocon Martyr
Help the morally handicapped this holiday season – give to the 'Lewis Libby Defense Trust'

by Justin Raimondo
December 16, 2005


With Scooter Libby slated to go to trial sometime next year, the Lewis Libby Defense Trust is gearing up for a big fundraising effort – and lookee lookee at all the luminaries who've signed on to help!

Hey, how about a benefit concert?

They could book Libby supporters Jack F. Kemp and Steve Forbes to do their comedy act – you remember them from the 1996 Republican primaries.

Former Sen. Fred Thompson can reenact his part in the 1985 movie Marie, in which Thompson played himself – an assistant Justice Dept. attorney who convicted then-Tennessee Gov. Ray Blanton on charges of selling pardons. (Don't even think about it, George!)

There's lots of entertainment value in the Libby camp: former Sen. Alan Simpson, the Wyoming connection, seems eminently qualified to give us a reading of Annie Proulx's "Brokeback Mountain," the short story the movie is based on. Richard Carlson, president of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting from 1992 to 1997, can use his connections to book guest appearances by the Cookie Monster, the letter B, and the number 9.

Lobbyist Wayne Berman – himself no stranger to scandal – whose wife, Lea, is White House social secretary, could do the invitations.

Phillip Merrill, minor media mogul and former president of the Export-Import Bank, could prove useful: if all else fails, maybe he can get the Trust a government subsidy. After all, if Saddam Hussein and Enron both qualified for Ex-Im loans, why not Scooter?

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1. Good article

Names a lot of the behind the scenes Pugs.