Reply #63: Here's an example:

[H2O Man]

The press is often skillfully used to manipulate the public's perception. They can make the criminal look like the victim, and the victim look like the criminal. In this article, Debra Saunders attacks the Fitzgerald Grand Jury investigation into who leaked Plame's identity to the media.

She titles her article "The Beltway inquisition," and makes reference to a "witch-hunt." Hence, she makes her conclusion clear to the readers before she lays out her case.

Poor Debra worries about protection for government "whistle blowers." Think of that! How in the hell can you call the White House officials who exposed Plame "whistle blowers"? A whistle blower exposes a potential government crime. The officials who exposed Plame were committing a crime.

Next, she attacks Wilson, and states incorrectly that the Senate Comiittee concluded Plame "offered up" Wilson to go to Niger. This is a gross distortion of the truth. Anyone who takes a half-hour to examine this will see that Saunders is purposely lying to make the criminals look like victims, and the victims look like criminals.

Either Debra Saunders is ignorant of the truth, too stupid to recognize it when it stares her in the face, or is purposely lying to her readers. I'm convinced she's lying on purpose.

See:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/09/30/EDGB790KB41.DTL

found at news at google for Plame