Remember (tip to Instapundit) Affaire de Plame when the media went into a full feeding frenzy over the issue of Valerie Plame when they insisted that she was a secret agent outed by a right-wing, NeoCon cabal when she was not an agent and anti-war people were the ones who leaked her name to the press in the first place?
How many millions of words were wasted by liberal journalists on the phony Valerie Plame “scandal,” and who ever could have doubted that it was a Democrat “obsession” — a ginned-up mountain of paranoia inspired by a minor molehill of events?
Does no one else remember how liberals pretended that Valerie Plame’s employment status at the CIA was America’s most closely-guarded national security secret, until that afternoon in July 2003 when Richard Armitage mentioned her to Bob Novak? And have we completely forgotten that the real scandal — the story Novak was actually trying to report — was the mystery of how Plame’s husband Joe Wilson, a diplomat with no genuinely relevant expertise, got the assignment to travel to Africa on a CIA-sponsored trip to investigate British intelligence reports that Iraq had obtained uranium ore from Niger? Has it also now been forgotten that, because Novak would not identify his sources, Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) launched a witch hunt that blamed Karl Rove and/or Dick Cheney for “outing” Plame, who was not exactly a secret agent, thus leading to an investigation that resulted in the prosecution and imprisonment of Scooter Libby?
Indeed. I always wanted to know why the buffoon Wilson was sent on such an important mission. We never did find out. Pity the press corps got full and bloated on their nothingburger of a scandal and had no appetite for answering that question.
So don't talk to me about nothingburgers and Benghazi. Even if there is nothing to this issue, the press corps is perfectly willing to dig when there is nothing of substance to find. This time they decided to move on rather than dig. Why?
