Laura Ingraham UNSUCCESSFULLY tries to slime Valerie Plame

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Ignoring Novak's July 2003 column, Ingraham suggested Plame compromised her own undercover status in Jan. 2004

http://mediamatters.org/items/200510120008

On the October 11 edition of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes, nationally syndicated radio host Laura Ingraham misleadlingly suggested that White House senior adviser Karl Rove could not have "outed" CIA operative Valerie Plame as an undercover agent because her identity was already known after she appeared "in Vanity Fair with her scarf and her sunglasses on." In fact, syndicated columnist Robert D. Novak -- citing two "senior administration officials," one of whom reportedly was Rove -- publicly broke Plame's cover in his July 14, 2003, column. But as Media Matters for America has noted, Plame appeared in the January 2004 edition of Vanity Fair. The photograph of Plame "with her scarf and her sunglasses on" was taken on November 18, 2003.

After Novak's column was published, multiple press accounts reported that Plame was an undercover CIA operative.

From the October 11 edition of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes:

ALAN COLMES (co-host): I want to know why Karl Rove, it was said by his attorney, Luskin, back in July, "has shared everything he knows with a special prosecutor," and why he is now, then, testifying again? Why did Scott McClellan say, "If anybody was involved in this, they'd no longer be in the administration"? And then the next day, Bush said, "If anybody leaked classified information," and then they said, "If anybody committed a crime." They keep changing the goal posts here. Why is that, Laura?

INGRAHAM: I don't necessarily think they're changing the goal posts. But I can probably talk about why Patrick Fitzgerald might be calling him back. I mean, he might be calling Karl Rove back because Fitzgerald has learned more information that might either conflict with something that Rove said to him earlier or might add to something Rove said, and he wants to ask him about it. That's how grand juries operate. And I don't think it's necessarily good news for Karl Rove that he's been called back for a fourth time. But I don't think you conclude anything from that, either. I think for Kirsten to say he's outed Valerie Plame -- Valerie Plame, the last time I checked out with her, she was on the -- in Valerie -- in Vanity Fair with her scarf and her sunglasses on.

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[peacetalksforall]

2. Ladies and gentlemen - a prime example of propaganda, U.S. Style.

Our country surpasses the USSR and the People's Republic in dangerous propaganda. Why dangerous? Because a huge per cent of the people in the country don't know that it is propaganda. It is not dangerous to people in the know.

DUers and others have learned to distrust everything coming from the networks until some facts are in. Duers have learned that night is day and apples are plows when it comes to words out of the right wing partners of the WH cabal.

Poor Laura. What a dirty job she has.

[Check12]

6. Yea, but she is kinda hot in that

sleevless blouse. you have to admit.

[acmejack]

3. In her younger days she ahem,"indiscreetly" posed for some photos!

She apparently has few secrets. They are posted around the internets.

[Check12]

9. Link please!

[acmejack]

19. google it.

Can't post links here to that kind of stuff.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

13. I think you're thinking of Dr. Laura, not Laura Ingraham...

...and I've SEEN the Dr. Laura photos, and if I could step into a time machine and go back in time and NOT HAVE SEEN them, I'd do it in a HEATBEAT.

:evilgrin:

[noahmijo]

15. Yea you're right

I saw those shots too.

It can't even be considered "Poor man's porn"

ohhhhhhhh!!! hot damn I am so on fire today with the one-liners!

[madrchsod]

4. may the battery in her pocket rocket

go dead in the middle of her orgamizm...

[DemInDistress]

5. wasn't she recently hospitalized for a disease...

if so,she should have died.....Why do you give her airtime here at DU?

[ourbluenation]

11. She has cancer.

On Hannity yesterday wearing a wig.

[Mountainman]

12. She has breast cancer

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

14. "The Desperation Meter"

I "give her airtime here at DU" as an example of the kinds of lies the far right is telling right now in the face of some pretty damning evidence.

That's why.

[Texas_Kat]

7. Is Laura an idiot...?

or does she just play one on the radio?

Even the seriously neurotic who call in can tell what the date is on a calendar....

[lateo]

8. Laura is a blond now?

Damn...she is pretty hot.

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[are_we_united_yet]

16. Worthless

However, I really don't like the fact that she has Breast Cancer.

It's a horrible disease and I don't even want her to deal with it.

[Stinky The Clown]

17. Laura's weapon:

Laura's ammo? Propaganda

[agincourt]

18. Rove didn't just hurt Valerie Plame,

He ruined a WMD tracking operation than Plame was involved in. Rove, Novak, and Libbey made the whole USA less safe. And the damage they did is being covered up so the focus is just on Valerie and Joe. Even if the media criticizes the administration, they still try to minimalize.