Does Valerie Plame Wilson need to write a book??

[killerbush]

I thought she would be different, but I guess not. Valerie Plame Wilson is set to write a book on the whole CIA leak case as soon as possible. She has already accepted an offer, and will make a ton of money when all is said and done. By my question is does she have too?
Why is it that everyone needs to write a book to capitalize on their supposed new celebrity status? What's wrong with letting the story die once it's over? I can see several books and possibly 2 or 3 movies coming out of this whole sordid scandal. What's next, having Susan Sarandon or someone equally as famous play Plame in the movie of the week?? It's pathetic really.
I suppose if Ms. Plame wants to write a book, that's her business, but to me, the almighty dollar speaks louder than the ability to say no to all the hype. I think she would be a lot better off going on with her life and trying to forget the hell she went through all because the Bushies wanted to smear the good name of Joe Wilson.

[LA lady]

1. SUE!!

What concerns me is I feel it could intefere with the lawsuit.

[Syrinx]

2. I welcome hearing her story

And I don't begrudge her making a few million while she's at it.

[sandrakae]

3. She has to make money some way. The Bush Administration ruined her career.

[Robbien]

4. What bunk

Liberals should be happy to be poor and be spit on if they get paid for their efforts?

[onehandle]

5. America is a capitalist nation.

More power to her. She deserves the cash.

Anyone who thinks she wasn't going to write a book is fooling themselves.

[Webster Green]

6. What's wrong with books?

I'll buy her book in a heartbeat. I'm sure she has quite a story to tell.

Why do you hate books?

[killerbush]

9. I don't hate books

But why does everyone have to write a book??

[benddem]

14. just because

she and everyone else has a story to tell. How ridiculous to begrudge her this. She also needs her pound of flesh. Go Valerie...write it all.

[AmericanDream]

29. because books live longer than human beings ...

How are your kids and grandkids going to know about this episode and learn from it?

[beaconess]

31. I agree -

Im tired of everyone writing books "to set the record straight." Sometimes, people are much more interesting and their position appears more valid if they just keep their mouths shut. The idea that everyone who ever gets any public attention - intentionally or unintentionally - must then follow up with a book is kind of sad to me.

I don't begrudge her making the money and she may very well need it given that these people destroyed her career, but if that's the reason she's doing it, we should call it what it is. It's not an effort to tell a particular side of the story or to "set the record straight," but to make some dough.

Too bad so few in public life seem to have learned from Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. She kept her mouth shut for 30 years (of course, she didn't need the money) and went to her grave still revered and respected. This everyone-grab-their-15-minutes-of-fame-and-tell-everything because "I want to set the record straight" is very boring to me.

[evlbstrd]

7. But it's okay for evveryone else?

I want to hear her side of it. And how do you know it's about greed? Did she tell you that?

[hwmnbn]

8. I will read her book......

If I'm not mistaken Bill Frist wrote a book. Do you feel the same way about him?

[killerbush]

11. Bill Frist can write??

[WinkyDink]

10. Interesting reference to Susan Sarandon.

As in, why did you make it?

[killerbush]

19. Only name I could thin of off the top of my head

[AtomicKitten]

12. I don't begrudge her the opportunity to cash in.

They effectively ended her career with the CIA. I also hope the Wilsons sue the shit out of anyone responsible for this travesty.

I supported Joe Wilson by buying his book, and I will gladly buy hers as well.

A little less tsk-tsking perhaps?

[serryjw]

16. Me TOO!

Have 50 pages left in the book. I liked it. Her story will be much more interesting.

[AtomicKitten]

18. and the story is still being played out.

Hopefully she will hold the book til the conclusion, when those responsible are safely being bars being buggered senseless by this guy:

[serryjw]

24. Still pisses me off that Dem leaders

didn't frame this issue that Americans could understand it. What they did was outrageous and it was a perfect nonpolitical issue that was solely based on national security. To this day you almost hear NOTHING over the demise of Brewster Jennings and what it meant to US security.

[AtomicKitten]

25. you're right

But take heart. The slow drip-drip-drip out of the Scooter Libby case is keeping this alive, and Patrick Fitzgerald is nailing the administration and their petty revenge in outing Ms. Plame. It also appears Rove will be indicted, and rumor has it Fitzgerald is actually considering charging Libby with the actual outing.

I too hope the Democrats start playing HARDBALL in the upcoming elections and are merciless in their attack on the felonious, corrupt GOP. They so have it coming to them.

I want them to use Bush Sr.'s own words: "Even though I'm a tranquil guy now at this stage of my life, 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." ** April 26, 1999

[serryjw]

26. Frightening, I agree with * Sr

I still have not recovered from what they did.

[Orangepeel]

13. If she doesn't write it, how will I read it?

and, since I want to read it, I'm all for her writing it. She has a very important story to tell.

[serryjw]

15. WHY?

She is F*CKED out of years of income and millions of dollar. I wouldn't walk away from a 7 digit book deal. Supply and demand. I would prefer she write an honest book about the story than the RW.

[yellowcanine]

17. It is her business. Bystanders, including us, should butt out. The fact

that she will get paid for it - so what? She has a story to tell, let her tell it.

[ClusterFreak]

20. Normally, I would totally agree with your POV here...

...but I don't think these are 'normal' circumstances. Sure, she's making a buck off what happened to her, like so many before her have who have been in some way thrust into the spotlight from the shadows or from simple anonymity. But the bigger issue it seems to me is for her to spread the word as much as she can, about the Bushco double-dealings which led her to be outed the way she was. Especially now with word she was involved in intelligence-gathering on Iran's nuclear capabilities.

IMO anyway.

[Catherine Vincent]

21. Yes. She survived to tell it.

[AndyTiedye]

22. She CAN'T Go On With Her Life as a Covert CIA Agent!

Valerie Plame is now the best-known spook in the entire world.
She can never be a covert anything again.

By writing a book, she can have an income again, and expose the guilty.

Why should she want to pronounce the story "over" and let it die?
The guilty parties are still in power. Nobody has been punished.

[ladjf]

23. Would turn down a chance to get your side into the written record

while receiving over a million to do it? I know that I would.

[Quantess]

27. I know. What a ****face, right?

How dare that pansy-assed lib try to do anything besides take her punishment in stride.

[AmericanDream]

28. Oh please... of course she does

We need to hear her side of the story and history needs to hear her side of the story. It is easy to say that "hey, just go home and shut up"... but what purpose does that serve? What good does that do? Buck or no buck, it only serves this country, our history as a people, and the Bush legacy better if all the players do their part to tell their side.

I can only see future historians being happy about getting her account. And I would say the same about pro-bush people in his administration too. Why do we need to see a book by anyone in Bush's cabinet or staff? For nothing but history. Like it or not, Bush is a part of our history and as academics as well as the general public who (fortunately) never had to live through these times dig through writings and records to understand and judge this Presidency, I would be content to know that Plame's book will be a part of that study.

In the short term, it is great to say that she should just go off with her life blah blah.

But that only shows that you are unwilling to think long term. I'm sure that money could be an attraction, but in some degree at least, Valerie Plame must be thinking of the historic importance of her story.... not for fame (I mean if she had to do that, she would have come out into the public and been on TV earlier) but for the sake of truth.

[DoYouEverWonder]

30. So if someone comes along

and waves a few million dollars in your face, just for you to tell your life story, I am sure you will take the high road and say no thank you?

[beaconess]

32. And, unfortunately, her willingly taking a high profile

posing for Vanity Fair, dazzling the photogs on the red carpet at Correspondents Dinner, clinching a multi-million dollar book deal (which will certainly be followed up with a whirlwind media blitz at just the right time), etc., diminishes the appearance that she was wronged by the Administration.

Her outing is beginning to appear to some as, not a crime, but a fortuitous event that will bring her fame and riches far beyond what she would ever have gotten as an anonymous CIA operative. It's much harder for people to believe that the Administration's actions were evil and nefarious and illegal if the so-called victim" looks like she's having the time of her life as a result.

This is all so Washington.

[Pithy Cherub]

39. America is wronged by the administration and Valerie

can write about how and provide more information. She can choose what ever medium that is available to tell her story. Seems that it is still America and as long as she is legally proceeding, then we graciously welcome her contribution to understaning how her story fits into the American tapestry. If you are poised to take only certain points of view that are only sanctioned by the current political conventional wisdom police, that is certainly your choice.

Many of us welcome her ongoing debut into the sunshine to tell her story as SHE sees fit, as it is hers to tell or sell. She happens to emanate from Washington, but her compelling story affects the history of the planet. More power to Valerie Plame!

[Libby2]

33. Yes. Yes she does.

Thanks for asking.

[tsuki]

34. I, for one, will be reading this book. More than "exploiting" her

"new celebrity status," this book has the potential to blow the top of the traitorous acts of this regime.

To sit back and do nothing, the great American pastime, is worse than "exploiting her new celebrity status." That is what the news media has been doing for six years.

[H2O Man]

35. She's a villian, for sure!

I think that she poses a terrible security risk to the United States. I hope that the brave people who helped expose the dangers she created for the world continue to attack her. And that means having book-burnings, too. The only thing that we need to know about this "Valerie Flame" should be reported by government officials like Sean Hannity and Judith Miller.

I can't help but think of her in terms of the yellow cake from Niger, which was being used by terrorists. Perhaps we can't bring back the civil defense drills of the late 1950s, when school children hid under their desks, but neither can we wait for the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud. Burying our heads in the sand seems like the safest alternative at this time.

There really needs to be a constitutional amendment outlawing books. Books are scary.

[GymGeekAus]

47. Does this site have a nice sarcasm flag?

:sarcasm:

Yes, it does.

[Totally Committed]

36. Not only does she NEED to write a book, but she needs to time the release

so that it comes out during the '08 campaign. And it needs to be as critical and damning of the Bush administration and the Republican Party who supported him through two terms as possible.

If the tables were turned, you can bet there'd be a book, so why not our side taking a shot? As long as they have the Wingnuts they have writing their anti-left Anti-Democratic Party sh*t, we need to have writers that will go out ant speak truth to their rotten and corrupt power.

TC

[zulchzulu]

37. I'd love to read her story, as would millions of others

As for Repugs going with the line "Aw, she just wants to write a book...", since when do they complain about people like O'Reilly, Rush, Hannity and other Repug mouthpieces hawking their books and merch everywhere they go...

As some have pointed out, it's capitalism. It's ideas. It's information.

If these people are anti-knowledge, then so be it.

[ncteechur]

38. No, not yet. I think she does more damage by not speaking.

If she writes a book they will frame it as she is just trying to
make a buck and she really wasn't an agent. She was an agent and
I think as long as she doens't write books or doesn't grant interviews
about this whole ordeal she remains above the fray. She causes
more damage. The dickhead repubs already try to nail her about the photos she
has been in (vanity fair) and her appearance at the WHCD. She can write her
book later. I'll read it.

[Finder]

40. It is called documenting history...

and is what humans do.

[dmr]

41. Why shouldn't she be allowed to tell her side?

Her story is beyond compelling. I want to hear what she has to say.

[win_in_06]

42. Makes one question her motives and credibility.

Can't she wait until the Libby trial is over?

[CTyankee]

44. I just don't buy that.

Sure the repubs will say that. But we don't need to. We know she was wronged, book deal or no book deal.

Let the pukes say all that stuff. We have truth on our side and this thing is gonna be a lot bigger as the investigation goes forward and more indictments are handed up.

[GymGeekAus]

48. It does not. You did that on your own.

But no real explanation of why you want to wait to hear the truth.

And all the while, Bush is slowly cannibalizing the CIA, handing more and more power to Negroponte, who we all know is an insane psychopath from his last little stint of work in the administration.

Wanna question her motives and credibility anyway? Then you've got a lot of reading to do. Don't forget, during your analysis, that she can have excellent credentials and very noble motives.

I eagerly await your report.

And oh man, am I tired of right-wing Democrats.

[mmonk]

43. I'm for anything that exposes any truth

to the ignorant, self absorbed, propagandized American public. While some of you are optimistic about the future, I will not be until I hear Americans talk about what really has happened and the truth about this "new course" for American world dominance through murder, violence, and lies. I think we are close to our end.

[MaineDem]

45. Let's help the RW with their talking points

:eyes:

[JNelson6563]

46. Wow. Just wow.

Planting memes. Sickening.

:puke:

Heaven forbid the idea be to acutally get her story out instead of letting the reich-wing media tell it as they'd like to to be. No. It must be all about money.

Could you be more transparent or are you just clueless after having been at the corporate media teet?

Julie