Right Winger has the NERVE to compare Valerie Plame with Paula Jones!

[Catherine Vincent]

http://www.statesmanjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060722/OPINION/60721022/1049

Outed agent is Paula Jones, minus the sex story

By Debra J. Saunders

July 22, 2006

Former CIA operative Valerie Plame is Paula Jones — if with national security credentials and Beltway savoir-faire. Both women filed iffy lawsuits that seemed more designed to discredit a president than to prevail in a court of law.

Jones never could prove that then-Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton hurt her career as a state worker after he allegedly sexually harassed her. Hence, there were no economic damages, as Judge Susan Webber Wright noted when she ruled against Jones.

The suit filed last week by Plame and her husband, former Ambassador Joe Wilson, against Bush biggies — Veep Dick Cheney, Cheney's former chief of staff Scooter Libby and Bush guru Karl Rove — is equally nonsensical. As CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin put it, "I think this lawsuit ranks somewhere between an actual lawsuit and a publicity stunt."

"She wasn't fired," noted attorney Victoria Toensing, who served in the Reagan administration. "She worked for two and a half years (at the CIA) after the revelation. Nobody fired her. She's got a book deal she would not have had."

And, I'll add, Plame's deal to write her memoirs for Simon & Schuster — after a $2.5 million deal with Crown Publishing fell through — is not stopping the Wilsons from making online solicitations to bankroll "counseling them for their potential witness testimony" in Libby's trial and/or their dubious lawsuit. They need counseling to testify?
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[Webster Green]

1. Saunders is a chimp-licking, kool-aid drinking media whore...

Her mind is not her own.

She is on the wrong side of everything.

[oasis]

2. I'd love it when hacks like Saunders come on C-SPAN's "WashingtonJournal"

and get told off by callers.::bounce:

[SammyBlue]

3. That stupid shill hasn't died yet. She lost me when she was

bitching about illegal immigrants working on farms as migrants, stealing those jobs so Americans would be denied them.

[hopeisaplace]

4. Ok, one positive...

(always looking for the positive),

people may read up on this more now that the words "Paula Jones" and "sex" have
been used to describe it,...:)

[Hekate]

5. They respect no one, dishonor everyone they come in contact with...

...and they want to tell the rest of us how to be patriots.

Paula Jones was a useful tool of the RW, sad but true. A low level employee with limited education, impressionable, and seduced. In the long haul, a sad person. In no way should she be compared with -- for instance -- a useful RW tool like Katherine Harris, who was born with every advantage of position and money, educated, intelligent, who really thought she could play with the BFEE and come out on top.

To compare Valerie Plame with poor Paula is just nauseating. Ms Plame served our country with all her considerable intelligence and put her life on the line doing so. She was outed by the BFEE for petty revenge against her husband, putting everyone she ever came in contact with through Brewster-Jennings in peril of their own lives and freedom, and compromising our national security as well.

I repeat, Bushco respects NO ONE for their service to this nation, and DISHONORS everything and everyone they touch.

Hekate

[aquart]

6. Doesn't have much respect for our intelligence agents, does she?

Nor the concept of "national security."

[Drewskie]

7. Plame is way hotter (nt)

[Greeby]

9. Damn straight

;)

[Catherine Vincent]

8. Kick!