John Gibson Worse than Oreilly

[brettdale]

Remember all the screaming from former diplomat Joe Wilson (search), when Robert Novak (search) exposed Wilson's wife as a CIA agent? Her name is Valerie Plame — you'll know her when you see her. She's the one who now wears big Italian dark glasses and a scarf over her head at all times.

"Spooks can't be exposed!" screamed her husband. And he blamed Karl Rove, insisting Rove exposed his wife as payback for Wilson going public with a story that he personally investigated whether Saddam Hussein tried to get nuke bomb fuel and the answer was no.

Wilson said President Bush ignored his information and Rove dealt payback to Wilson by exposing Wilson's wife as a CIA agent.

Wilson said he wanted Rove, "frog marched across the White House lawn." And oh, by the way, be sure to elect John Kerry, the anti-Bush.

Well, cut to Monday. There was the Senate Foreign Relations Committee trying to batter John Bolton for his long and distinguished history as a U.N.-basher — hey, somebody's got to do it — and Senator John Kerry exposed a CIA officer, by name, right there on TV, right there on the wire stories, right there on the Internet. Bolton tried to keep his cool and continued to refer to the CIA officer in question as Mr. Smith, but Kerry had already blurted out the agent's name.


So another spook uncovered, exposed, now not able to work at his chosen profession and forced to do just what Valerie Plame did: Get his spouse to screech that this is treason and then sign a big fat book deal.

Hey, it's America: All aggrieved parties get book deals.

But what about frog marching John Kerry down the Capitol steps? You don't hear a call for that, do we? So why not?

When it comes to frog marching suspected undercover operative exposers, the demand only comes during an election season. And it never is a demand lodged against a prominent Democrat.

Here was Sandy Berger stuffing documents into his socks, hoping the 9/11 Commission would not discover what he and Bill Clinton were really up to when they should have been chasing Usama bin Laden. No screaming about that one either.

You'll have to wait for the next frog march demand until at least 2007 when the campaign season is in full swing.

That's My Word.

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[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. John Gibson is pond scum. He's also lying out his @ss

about Kerry "outing" a CIA agent. But then, he's a Pox News puke, so what can you expect? Of course, this particular agent, "Mr. Smith," has already been named publicly about 10 times in the last 5 years by various TV stations and newspapers -- a fact Olbermann noted yesterday on "Countdown." And, predictably, Gibson also fails to mention that a Republican, Sen. Lugar, also used "Smith's" real name during the same hearings. I hope Gibson was deluged with e-mails about this little omission, but there will be glaciers on the mountains of Hell before the prick admits he was wrong.

[hvn_nbr_2]

2. What is this post about?

Is it all a quote from John Gibson? Is it the poster's words. I can't tell what's happening here. It reads like a provocateur disruptor, but I'm guessing that it's probably a quote from Gibson or a Faux website, but if it is, why do you put your own words (the subject line) in quotes and the quoted part (the body of the post) not in quotes. It reads as if you are in fact John Gibson and you want us to send you email. Huh?

[brettdale]

3. Its from Fauxs webpage

Opps sorry for the confusion. The entire post is from Faux news webpage. Its from John Gibson Big story.

[hvn_nbr_2]

6. Thanks.

That was my best guess. Otherwise, it would have been a pretty brazen troll.

[brettdale]

4. From newshounds.us

This is from newshounds.us

A Day Late--And Totally Wrong
The Big Story with John Gibson Wednesday (April 13) tried to make a big story out of an old story that was a non-story. It was the alleged blown cover of a CIA agent during Senate confirmation hearings for U.N. ambassador-nominee John Bolton.

Gibson claimed in his "My Word" segment that Sen. John Kerry "exposed a CIA officer by name" during the hearing. Gibson compared it to a Bush administration official's outing of Valerie Plame, wife of CIA analyst Joe Wilson last summer in retaliation for his speaking out on whether the Iraqis had tried to buy yellowcake for nuclear bomb making.

As Wilson had called for Karl Rove to be "frog-marched" across the White House lawn, Gibson said he wondered if anybody would be "frog-marching John Kerry down the capital steps. Don't hear a call for that, do we?" Gibson claimed the reason was that this isn't a presidential election year and it was a Democrat who did the exposing.

Gibson, of course, failed to mention that Republican Senator John Lugar also mentioned the CIA agent by name. We don't hear a call for frog-marching John Lugar down the capital steps, do we? Could that be the reason we don't hear the call for John Kerry?

More importantly, as Keith Olbermann pointed out on MSNBC's Countdown on Tuesday, the agent was not being outed at all. Fulton Armstrong has been mentioned by name as an intelligence expert on Latin America at least ten times since 1999 in newspapers, congressional hearings, and web pages. Here's one from the Council on Foreign Relations which listed his name. The Washington Post and The Associated Press reported the possible outing after Monday's hearing, and the Drudge Report picked it up.

Wonder where Gibson got his column idea -- straight from the Drudge Report? Guess Gibson was too pressed for time to search for the web and see if "Fulton Armstrong" came up anywhere.

[Melynn]

5. Gibson is just a hack and boring to boot.

O'Lielly may be evil but at least he is interesting, in a neo-thug sort of way.

[Fenris]

7. He could also use some time in the sun.