PlameOut: An Emily Litella moment

By Michelle Malkin  •  September 1, 2006 11:35 AM

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Neeever mind!

From a WaPo editorial that should be framed and hung in the Newseum for posterity:

Nevertheless, it now appears that the person most responsible for the end of Ms. Plame’s CIA career is Mr. Wilson. Mr. Wilson chose to go public with an explosive charge, claiming — falsely, as it turned out — that he had debunked reports of Iraqi uranium-shopping in Niger and that his report had circulated to senior administration officials. He ought to have expected that both those officials and journalists such as Mr. Novak would ask why a retired ambassador would have been sent on such a mission and that the answer would point to his wife. He diverted responsibility from himself and his false charges by claiming that President Bush’s closest aides had engaged in an illegal conspiracy. It’s unfortunate that so many people took him seriously.

Allah says WaPo should prepare for a brutal nutroots backlash. Tom Maguire weighs in. AJ Strata has more on AQ Khan, Wilson, and the CIA. Glenn Reynolds: “They should have been reading InstaPundit. Though I remember some people at the Harvard blogger conference in 2003 reacting with incredulity at my view that the Wilson narrative was extremely dubious, so I guess reading InstaPundit isn’t enough…”

Good timing: Lorie Byrd writes today on Emily Litella moments of the MSM.

Byron York is waiting for the NYTimes:

The Post editorial says the paper was “reluctant” to revisit the whole Plamegate affair. Certainly other commentators, some of whom pushed the story very hard, now don’t want to talk about it. The New York Times editorial page, which was positively hysterical about the matter, still has not commented on the Armitage matter. But this was a serious matter. It has to be reckoned with.

A NYTimes climbdown? Don’t bother waiting for something that’ll never happen. You’ll end up like what’s his name.

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