In 1999, former Pres. George Bush famously said, “I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of our sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious of traitors.”
John Gibson, the Fox News anchor, takes an opposite view. He says he wants to “give a medal” to the Bush officials who deliberately jeopardized a top-secret, well-established CIA program that tracked the sales of weapons of mass destruction in black markets worldwide.
Why would a rightwinger like Gibby want to pin a medal on these traitors? Because the traitors are Republicans — a cabal led by Dick Cheney and that included Karl Rove and Scooter Libby — while the covert agent in charge of the CIA’s top secret WMD tracking program, Valerie Plame Wilson, made a campaign donation to Al Gore in 1999.
In her 20 years as a spy for the United States, Agent Wilson worked for a front business, an oil industry consulting firm called Brewster Jennings and Associates. She frequently traveled overseas where she developed a network of secret “assets” — foreign nationals who provided her with inside knowledge on the movement of chemical, biological and even nuclear weapons and materials in the worldwide terrorist black market.
The CIA will not say, of course, how many of these foreign assets were compromised, killed, wounded or kidnapped and tortured as a result of Cheney’s treasonous conspiracy to forfeit them by exposing Agent Wilson’s covert identity.
And only time will tell how many weapons of mass destruction were transported undetected because Agent Wilson’s network was compromised — and whether one or more of these weapons will be used to attack the United States.
But none of that matters to Republicans like John Gibson and his cohorts at Fox News and in the Bush White House, whose patriotism is a fake as the made-in-China American flags pinned to their lapels. Gibson’s remarkable statement advocating giving a medal to Rove, Cheney and Libby — the “most insidious of traitors” who betrayed vital national secrets — exposes him for what he is: an ideologue who puts his party ahead of his country even at the risk of national security.
And this is why we are doomed. Because people like this still think that treason done in the name of party loyalty is somehow a virtue.
One must consider the source. I mean really, he is a TV personality on Fox. Not much there in the way of intellect. The saddest part is that he actually thinks what he says or does means something. There are few people as irrelevant as the empty suits and talking heads that populate TV “journalism” and the ones from Fox are especially vapid. Personally, I find them amusing in their stupidity and childlike in their idolatry of all things Bush. Ignore them, they mean nothing to anyone save the trailer park populace whose vacant psyche they are able to mesmerize.
So what else is new? Gibson is a stooge whose idiocy was so profound that they had to provide a co-host to keep his airhead in the chair.
I remember reading William L. Shirer’s “The Collapse of The Third Republic,” about how France collapsed before the Nazi onslaught in 1940. Many of the French who turned their backs on their government when it needed them most were like Gibson, pursuing their petty little vendettas at the expense of the “Big Picture,” even when it came to stabbing their own country in the back. And let’s remember that France didn’t free itself, but had to be liberated by the Allies after discarding their freedom like a soggy kleenex and embracing the Fascism of the Vichy Regime.
oh give me a break about France, that country was devastated by WW1 and we only went in at the end of that war,,, then we waited until december 1941 to even get off the pot for WW2…
The sad truth remains that if there wasn’t a market for crap like this and douchebags like Gibson’s who spew it, we wouldn’t even be having this conversation right now. Murdoch is making a lot of money by feeding the talk radio crowd’s hunger for TV and that’s not going to change. Do like I do with Gibson’s radio show; don’t listen. then it goes away … at least for me