As my last post - Knives and Garrotes - was mis-characterized as an anti-gun control screed, which it was not (See Blog Post: Guns and Roses, 12/16/12), I will avoid any subtlety here. My theme now, as it was then, is that intellectual dishonesty is a lethal cancer on the body politic because such lack of integrity by opinion makers undermines the very foundation of the fourth pillar sustaining our Constitutional Republic - a free press with public credibility. (There I go again - JD, enuff bombast for U?)
As you all know, I am not supporting Ms. Hillary for coronation as the next President of these United States. Nonetheless, my exclusive focus now is on the national media posture as it pertains to the former Secretary of State's public disclosure, thru unsecured e-mails, (yes PLURAL: sent and received) of the name of a secret CIA spy (yes, a foreign spy working for the US) stationed in Libya.
This critical appraisal will be squarely set in the relevant context of the media coverage of the leaking of Ms. Valerie Plame's identity to the public during the second term of the W. Bush Administration. To assert that the main stream media (MSM) went all high dudgeon over Mr. Richard Armitage's leak to Mr. Robert Novak may well be the understatement of all times. The two most prominent Bush Administration officials that these great guardians of the life of CIA operative Plame demanded be imprisoned after being publicly "Frog Walked" out of the White House in hand cuffs and leg irons were Karl Rove and Dick Cheney. Calls for the impeachment of President Bush were advanced as well, I'm quite sure.
This massive outpouring of righteous indignation at an Administration official(s) endangering the life of a CIA operative must surely be prologue for what we will see and hear from the MSM soon, right? There is no factual dispute here, Ms. Hillary's campaign spokesperson on Friday acknowledged that she had fingered an actual spy working behind enemy lines, but said two others had sent her this CIA operative's name and had not informed her of a secret classification covering that identity. Sure, we should not expect the most experienced SEC/STATE in history to know that the names of working spies in a war zone constitute a state secret.
To this debacle, I will simply quote Israel's Benjamin Netenyahu as to what I predict will be the MSM coverage of Ms Hillary:
"The response from this body - nearly every one of the [meia outlets] ... represented here - has been absolutely nothing. Utter silence. Deafening silence."
Before writing this Post further, I just stared at this quote for 45 seconds,before posing a more positive note: anyone finding a MSM demand for Ms. Hillary to be Frog Walked to Jail for possibly killing an American CIA spy will be given a six month extension to his or her Elite Membership. Good hunting you'se guys.
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