Limbaugh unglued over CIA leak case

[nimue77]

Rush Unglued Over RoveGate...

Working Hard to Defend Alleged Treason in the White House
And BRAD BLOG Scoops AP...

Looks like we scooped AP with our report yesterday on Ambassador Joe Wilson's call for Bush to fire Rove last night. They're just now running their story on it.

Meanwhile, back at Disinfo Central...If you missed the Rush Limbaugh show this morning, you missed quite the lolapalooza. He's become positively unglued vis a vis the Plame/Rove affair. And it was a hoot!

The "theory" that Rush has been pummelling his Ditto Heads with all day: Joe Wilson has been a part of a double super secret background conspiracy with the DNC since day one, well before he was sent by the CIA to Niger.

Yes, that's right. According to Rush, the entire plan to send George W. Bush's own father's Man in Iraq -- a decades-long expert in African and Middle-Eastern affairs to Niger -- was all just a ploy by Democrats "to undermine the War in Iraq and the Bush Presidency," as Rush repeatedly described it.

We suppose then, that Bush 41's letter sent to Wilson saying that he concurred with much of the article that Wilson wrote prior to the war in the San Jose Mercury News was also part of that conspiracy.

Why is Dubya's own father trying to destroy Dubya's own "Presidency", dammit?!

Rush's final words at the end of the show (referring to the Press Conference scheduled by Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) to happen shortly): "Chuck Shumer is Joe Wilson's 'handler' in this agency plot to bring down the President."

Good lord, these Right Wing Tin-Foil Hat wearers never fail to entertain.

Po' po' Rush he was even having trouble getting anything but callers who were supportive of Wilson today! Rush is in as much trouble today as his White House counterpart Scottie McClellan has been in all week in the WH press room.

We're also honored that Rush was unglued enough to refer to The BRAD BLOG as a "left wing blog" at the top of the show when he said that "Wilson was even speaking to left wing bloggers last night."

He didn't mention us by name though. Geez, we always give him full credit for everything he says. Oh, well.

Anyway...As reported here yesterday, Wilson appeared this morning on the TODAY Show. The video from his appearance is available at Crooks and Liars.



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[VOLTITAN]

SPIEGEL ONLINE - July 19, 2004, 10:06 AM
URL: http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,309295,00.html
Opinion

Sixteen Truthful Words

The statement at the center of the accusation that "Bush lied to us" was just the plain old truth. By WILLIAM SAFIRE

The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."

-George W. Bush, State of the Union address, Jan. 28, 2003

WASHINGTON - Those were "the 16 words" in a momentous message to a joint session of Congress that were pounced on by the wrong-war left to become the simple centerpiece of its angry accusation that "Bush lied to us" - or, as John Kerry more delicately puts it - "misled" us into thinking that Saddam's Iraq posed a danger to the U.S.

The he-lied-to-us charge was led by Joseph Wilson, a former diplomat sent in early 2002 by the C.I.A. to Niger to check out reports by several European intelligence services that Iraq had secretly tried to buy that African nation's only major export, "yellowcake" uranium ore.

Wilson testified to the Senate Intelligence Committee that he had assured U.S. officials back in 2002 that "there was nothing to the story." When columnist Robert Novak raised the question of nepotism by reporting that he got the assignment at the urging of his C.I.A. wife, Wilson denied that heatedly and denounced her "outing," triggering an investigation. The skilled self-promoter was then embraced as an antiwar martyr, sold a book with "truth" in its title, appeared on the cover of Time and every TV talk show denouncing Bush.

Two exhaustive government reports came out last week showing that it is the president's lionized accuser, and not Mr. Bush, who has been having trouble with the truth. Contrary to his indignant claim that "Valerie had nothing to do with the matter" of selecting him for the African trip, the Senate published testimony that his C.I.A. wife had "offered up his name" and printed her memo to her boss that "my husband has good relations" with Niger officials and "lots of French contacts." Further destroying his credibility, Wilson now insists this strong pitch did not constitute a recommendation.

More important, it now turns out that senators believe his report to the C.I.A. after visiting Niger actually bolstered the case that Saddam sought - Bush's truthful verb was "sought" - yellowcake, the stuff of nuclear bombs. The C.I.A. gave Wilson's report a "good" grade because "the Nigerien officials admitted that the Iraqi delegation had traveled there in 1999 and that the Nigerien Prime Minister believed the Iraqis were interested in purchasing uranium" - confirming what the British and Italian intelligence services had told us from their own sources.

But a C.I.A. analyst opined "the Brits have exaggerated this issue" because "the Iraqis already have 550 metric tons of uranium oxide in their inventory."

State Department intelligence also was dubious, reports the Senate, more so in October when an Italian journalist brought in a bunch of phony documents somebody was trying to sell him about a Niger uranium transaction. This outweighed the report of a top security official in the French Foreign Ministry, who told U.S. diplomats in November 2002 that "France believed the reporting was true that Iraq had made a procurement attempt for uranium from Niger."

Two months later, with no objection from C.I.A., the famous 16 words went into Bush's 2003 State of the Union. But when word leaked about the fake documents - which were not the basis of the previous reporting by our allies - Wilson launched his publicity campaign, acting as if he had known earlier about the forgeries. The Senate reports that in his misleading anonymous leak to The Washington Post, "He said he may have misspoken . . . he said he may have become confused about his own recollection. . . ." The subsequent firestorm caused the White House to retreat prematurely with: "the sixteen words did not rise to the level of inclusion in the State of the Union address." That apology was a mistake; Bush had spoken the plain truth. Did Saddam seek uranium from Africa, evidence of his continuing illegal interest in a nuclear weapon? Here is Lord Butler's nonpartisan panel, which closely examined the basis of the British intelligence:

". . . we conclude that the statement in President Bush's State of the Union Address of 28 January 2003 that `The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa' was well-founded."

 

[SamOdom]

From the SOTU speech:

The International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed in the 1990s that Saddam Hussein had an advanced nuclear weapons development program, had a design for a nuclear weapon and was working on five different methods of enriching uranium for a bomb. The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa. Our intelligence sources tell us that he has attempted to purchase high-strength aluminum tubes suitable for nuclear weapons production. Saddam Hussein has not credibly explained these activities. He clearly has much to hide.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/01/20030128-19.html

 

[docmercer--banned]

I wish I made 20 million a year to sound like a complete ass ...

 

[blueedwards]

I wish I made 20 million a year to sound like a complete ass ...

you clearly are a minimum wage complete ass.

 

[docmercer--banned]

Blue:

You define the word DITTOHEAD very well ....

 

[Illini]

I wish I made 20 million a year to sound like a complete ass ...

Try 30 million. I don't really listen to him, and the bits I've heard.....some I've agreed with and some not. But the guy is very good at what he does. There is a reason why he makes 30 million. He would destroy you in a debate, and nobody has the balls to stand up to him. They just write articles about how he is a drug user, hypocrite, fat, etc.

 

[docmercer--banned]

Illini:

first off ...Limbaugh would DESTROY no one ... hell, the guy was challenged to a debate by High School kids and he ran away like the Chickenhawk he is

* The guy is a big time racist
* The guy is working on Marriage #4 (????)
* The guy has been on the air for the last 10 yrs high on illegal drugs ...and in October of 1995 touted how "all users should go to prison"
* His track record is full of nothing but lies / fabrications

Limbaugh is the prime reason why the Bushies are clueless on most issues ... hell, when your main source of "information" is from a guy who got out of Vietnam because of a pimple on his fat ass and buys illegal drugs in a Denny's Parking Lot and hates African - Americans ....

Too funny! Limbaugh could not out debate Bush ...

 

[Redneckman]

Doc, you just go on believing what youwant to believe. And keep on getting your ass handed to you in election after election. I see a pattern starting in 1994, don't you? You underestimate people like Limbaugh, Hannity, etc, at the risk of your own demise. Keep making that same mistake, and we'll keep increasing our majorities.

 

[JudgeWapner]

Limbaugh has nothing to do with truth or information. he is all about ratings,nothing more. Alot like Morton Downey.

 

[Redneckman]

I'm sure you listen alot to him to verify your thoughts on that, Judge.

 

[JudgeWapner]

Red, actually I have to, every time I visit the folks.

 

[Redneckman]

:lolBIG:

 

[JudgeWapner]

Not sure where I went wrong with them.

 

[Jointpleasure]

Papa Judge and Mama Judge have themselves some good DNA. Cheer up Judge, maybe your a late bloomer.

 

[docmercer--banned]

Too funny watching the Berlin Wall start to crumble with the Bushies ....

"Rush ... on your next drug buy can ya remember your buddies?"

 

[cutacrossshorty]

He would destroy you in a debate, and nobody has the balls to stand up to him.

It's Limbaugh that doesn't have the balls to debate anyone. He surrounds himself with dittoheads and avoids any situation where there's a possibility that he'll be challenged. The only time I can recall where he left himself exposed for a fair debate was when he was on the ESPN NFL show and look how that turned out. He's the definition of fraud.

 

[JudgeWapner]

Whatever happened to the debate with the High school kids?

 

[CAPNCRUNCH]

It's Limbaugh that doesn't have the balls to debate anyone. He surrounds himself with dittoheads and avoids any situation where there's a possibility that he'll be challenged. The only time I can recall where he left himself exposed for a fair debate was when he was on the ESPN NFL show and look how that turned out. He's the definition of fraud.

I respect the fact he took his sheet off, I just wish he had left it on!arty:

 

[Illini]

Illini:

first off ...Limbaugh would DESTROY no one ... hell, the guy was challenged to a debate by High School kids and he ran away like the Chickenhawk he is

* The guy is a big time racist
* The guy is working on Marriage #4 (????)
* The guy has been on the air for the last 10 yrs high on illegal drugs ...and in October of 1995 touted how "all users should go to prison"
* His track record is full of nothing but lies / fabrications

Limbaugh is the prime reason why the Bushies are clueless on most issues ... hell, when your main source of "information" is from a guy who got out of Vietnam because of a pimple on his fat ass and buys illegal drugs in a Denny's Parking Lot and hates African - Americans ....

Too funny! Limbaugh could not out debate Bush ...

I don't know that you can call him a racist. I don't know the guy personally, and I don't know enough about him to label him a racist. What he said about McNabb was NOT a racist statement. He is against affirmative action.....that doesn't make him a racist. I don't know what else he has said. But here is my point. Your "rebuttal" is back to bringing up his personal life.....his 4th marriage, his drug use, etc. Who cares? I know that Democrats call his show, and he has made them look like idiots when I have listened. Any guy that can talk for 15 hours a week on air can think quickly on his feet. I don't think you would want to debate him.