The Plame Truth vs. "Fair Game"
Valerie Elise Plame Wilson, the multi-lingual, twice-married Penn State grad and holder of 2 graduate degrees, long-time CIA NOC, (non-official cover, deep-cover officer), central figure in the 2003-2005 Washington ”Plamegate” controversy, can now add “movie consultant” to her already chock-full résumé.
She and husband, former abmbassador Joseph P. (Joe) Wilson IV, consulted on director Doug Liman’s new movie, Fair Game, featuring Naomi Watts as Valerie and Sean Penn as Joe. Fair Game is Hollywood’s latest attempt to re-write history.
I know nothing of the political leanings of Naomi but the presence of Penn in the cast is a dead giveaway that this is another in the long line of Oliver Stone-type films that are based on Hollywood revisionism: If you don’t like history then just change it.
If wife Valerie was the central figure in Plamegate, hubby Joe Wilson, thrice-wed career civil servant, diplomat and ambassador for four years to inconsequential African states with a flair for the dramatic–he once wore a noose around his neck in defiance of Saddam Hussein–was the catalyst.
Without going into depth on Plamegate, suffice to say it was far more a political stunt meant to undermine President George W. Bush’s presidency and the American invasion of Iraq than a scandal.
Briefly: . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=2541)
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Sunday, November 7, 2010
Friday, March 19, 2010
Of Saints and Sinners
Of Saints and Sinners
I don’t know how often Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi prays but her prayer to St. Joseph to get him to intervene on the side of Obamacare seems very misdirected. In the Catholic tradition, St. Joseph is the patron saint of workers, not of lost causes. Desperate and lost causes are the province of St. Jude Thaddeus.
Perhaps Speaker Pelosi was thinking of Rep. Joseph (Joe) Wilson (R, SC) when she prayed for an intercession by St. Joseph since on the same day she was praying President Obama was proving Joe Wilson right.
The reader may remember Joe from last September when he committed a gross breach of congressional decorum and etiquette by loudly contradicting the president during a speech on Obamacare to a Joint Session of Congress.
Obama had just finished saying, “There are also those who claim that our reform effort will insure illegal immigrants. This, too, is false. The reforms I’m proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally,” when Wilson yelled from his seat, “You lie!”
Anyone who would care to reminisce on that sweet moment in history can . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1574)
I don’t know how often Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi prays but her prayer to St. Joseph to get him to intervene on the side of Obamacare seems very misdirected. In the Catholic tradition, St. Joseph is the patron saint of workers, not of lost causes. Desperate and lost causes are the province of St. Jude Thaddeus.
Perhaps Speaker Pelosi was thinking of Rep. Joseph (Joe) Wilson (R, SC) when she prayed for an intercession by St. Joseph since on the same day she was praying President Obama was proving Joe Wilson right.
The reader may remember Joe from last September when he committed a gross breach of congressional decorum and etiquette by loudly contradicting the president during a speech on Obamacare to a Joint Session of Congress.
Obama had just finished saying, “There are also those who claim that our reform effort will insure illegal immigrants. This, too, is false. The reforms I’m proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally,” when Wilson yelled from his seat, “You lie!”
Anyone who would care to reminisce on that sweet moment in history can . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1574)
Friday, September 11, 2009
Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics
Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics
During the president’s Wednesday address to a joint session of congress, Rep. Joe Wilson (R. SC) could have yelled Fabricator! or Dissembler! or Fibber! or Prevaricator! or Falsifier!
However, none of those alternatives would have had quite the impact of what Wilson did blurt out, namely the fine old, straightforward, Middle English word, ”Liar!” although all the above synonyms are applicable.
What provoked his outburst was Obama’s lie that Obamacare wouldn’t be offered to illegal aliens when he knew, or should have known, that yes, indeed, illegals would be covered.
Was it boorish, rude, impolite to accuse the president of the United States a liar in such a forum and on national television? Yep, I guess, but it was right on target.
Then, too, Obama calling those who believe that “death panels” lurk in the bowels of Obamacare “liars” during that same address was equally boorish, rude, and impolite, but we haven’t heard any uproar over that even though those people are correct.
(Nor was there an uproar over Democrats calling GWB a liar for 8 years nor over their nasty treatment of President George H.W. Bush during his address to a joint session on October 1st, 1989.)
They won’t be called “death panels,” especially since Sarah Palin was one of the first to use that term and has been ridiculed and abused. The Obamians wouldn’t give her the credit.
The administration’s PC description is “end of life counseling” and “advanced care planning consultations” wherein elderly and/or gravely ill patients will be required to sit down with their government doctors and said doctors will “counsel” them.
Those consults will cover such topics as living wills, durable powers of attorney, health proxies, all of which would be better covered by lawyers rather than physicians.
Then, what other purpose could those consults serve?
To say they would serve to shuffle the very ill off to the Great Beyond may seem insensitive, but let’s call a spade a spade.
Over in the UK where the Brit version of Obamacare has been in place for decades, the NHS has “progressed” to the point that it “encourages doctors and other health care staff to consider removing medication, fluids and other treatments that no longer benefit the patient:” http://bit.ly/Rio1i.
In other words, to use a bad word for Obamacare-Mengeles, the NHS euthanizes those deemed too expensive to treat as decided by panels of “doctors and other health care staff.” Under penalty of being put on a death track, don’t dare call them death panels!
Will Obamacare follow that same path? Do ducks swim and do politicians lie? Is it a great leap from end of life counselling to pulling the plug on grandma when Obama has pledged to reduce the costs of our health care?
“Liar” is a pejorative and pungent word which should be understood in its context. Sarah Palin didn’t lie about death panels, Obama did.
Rep. Joe Wilson was also accurate in his description of the president as a liar and there was no need for his apology. Obama promised, in typical Chicago street thug fashion, to “call out” his opponents. Wilson simply did the same.
Shortly after THE SPEECH, House Democrats scurried off . . .
(Read the rest at http://genelalor.com)
During the president’s Wednesday address to a joint session of congress, Rep. Joe Wilson (R. SC) could have yelled Fabricator! or Dissembler! or Fibber! or Prevaricator! or Falsifier!
However, none of those alternatives would have had quite the impact of what Wilson did blurt out, namely the fine old, straightforward, Middle English word, ”Liar!” although all the above synonyms are applicable.
What provoked his outburst was Obama’s lie that Obamacare wouldn’t be offered to illegal aliens when he knew, or should have known, that yes, indeed, illegals would be covered.
Was it boorish, rude, impolite to accuse the president of the United States a liar in such a forum and on national television? Yep, I guess, but it was right on target.
Then, too, Obama calling those who believe that “death panels” lurk in the bowels of Obamacare “liars” during that same address was equally boorish, rude, and impolite, but we haven’t heard any uproar over that even though those people are correct.
(Nor was there an uproar over Democrats calling GWB a liar for 8 years nor over their nasty treatment of President George H.W. Bush during his address to a joint session on October 1st, 1989.)
They won’t be called “death panels,” especially since Sarah Palin was one of the first to use that term and has been ridiculed and abused. The Obamians wouldn’t give her the credit.
The administration’s PC description is “end of life counseling” and “advanced care planning consultations” wherein elderly and/or gravely ill patients will be required to sit down with their government doctors and said doctors will “counsel” them.
Those consults will cover such topics as living wills, durable powers of attorney, health proxies, all of which would be better covered by lawyers rather than physicians.
Then, what other purpose could those consults serve?
To say they would serve to shuffle the very ill off to the Great Beyond may seem insensitive, but let’s call a spade a spade.
Over in the UK where the Brit version of Obamacare has been in place for decades, the NHS has “progressed” to the point that it “encourages doctors and other health care staff to consider removing medication, fluids and other treatments that no longer benefit the patient:” http://bit.ly/Rio1i.
In other words, to use a bad word for Obamacare-Mengeles, the NHS euthanizes those deemed too expensive to treat as decided by panels of “doctors and other health care staff.” Under penalty of being put on a death track, don’t dare call them death panels!
Will Obamacare follow that same path? Do ducks swim and do politicians lie? Is it a great leap from end of life counselling to pulling the plug on grandma when Obama has pledged to reduce the costs of our health care?
“Liar” is a pejorative and pungent word which should be understood in its context. Sarah Palin didn’t lie about death panels, Obama did.
Rep. Joe Wilson was also accurate in his description of the president as a liar and there was no need for his apology. Obama promised, in typical Chicago street thug fashion, to “call out” his opponents. Wilson simply did the same.
Shortly after THE SPEECH, House Democrats scurried off . . .
(Read the rest at http://genelalor.com)
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